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@sl007@digitalcourage.social · last week

#GeorgiaFort speaks at CNN Anderson Cooper

Why journalist says her arrest over church protest is a 'chilling message'
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/30/us/video/georgia-fort-interview-anderson-cooper-digvid

#PressFreedom #USPOL #Fascism
#DonLemon #JamaelLundy #TrahernCrews

Why journalist says her arrest over church protest is a ‘chilling message’ | CNN

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The Media & Democracy Project

@MAD_democracy@journa.host · last week

The arrests of reporters Georgia Fort and Don Lemon for engaging in journalism are outrageous.

The Media and Democracy Project, and many other press freedom groups, joined this statement by the National Association of Black Journalists #NABJ

https://nabjonline.org/blog/nabjoutrageddonlemonarrest/

@BlackNAndV

#PressFreedom #DataJournalism
#GeorgiaFort #DonLemon

NABJ OUTRAGED AT ARRESTS OF DON LEMON, GEORGIA FORT ‘THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS NOT OPTIONAL’

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is outraged and deeply alarmed by the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort by federal agents, and […]

The Media & Democracy Project

@MAD_democracy@journa.host · last week

The arrests of reporters Georgia Fort and Don Lemon for engaging in journalism are outrageous.

The Media and Democracy Project, and many other press freedom groups, joined this statement by the National Association of Black Journalists #NABJ

https://nabjonline.org/blog/nabjoutrageddonlemonarrest/

@BlackNAndV

#PressFreedom #DataJournalism
#GeorgiaFort #DonLemon

NABJ OUTRAGED AT ARRESTS OF DON LEMON, GEORGIA FORT ‘THE FIRST AMENDMENT IS NOT OPTIONAL’

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is outraged and deeply alarmed by the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort by federal agents, and […]

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Sebastian Lasse

@sl007@digitalcourage.social · last week

Don Lemon was hindered filming and captured

https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/usa-ex-cnn-journalist-don-lemon-festgenommen-a-4b1ea0db-e97a-444b-b614-5f3b33dd8e6e
#pressfreedom #us #fascism

USA: Ex-CNN-Journalist Don Lemon festgenommen

In einer Kirche in Minneapolis gab es einen Protest gegen einen Pfarrer, der für ICE arbeitet. Dabei war auch der Ex-CNN-Journalist Don Lemon, um das Geschehen zu filmen, wie er sagt. Die US-Regierung ließ ihn jetzt festnehmen.

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@ginaintheburg@mastodon.world · last week

Paul Butler:

This is a 2nd bite at the apple. A judge in #Minneapolis rejected these same charges brought against Don Lemon when they were brought there, saying there was no credible evidence of the crimes he was being charged with & dismissed the govt's lawsuit as frivolous.
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#DonLemon #GeorgiaFort

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@ginaintheburg@mastodon.world replied · last week

Eugene Daniels points out that both of these journalists - Don Lemon and Georgia Fort - are Black and just as importantly independent journalists. Independent journalists don't have the resources that journalists employed by major media do.

The point is not conviction, it's to embarrass these ppl & force them to spend time & money on their legal representation defending themselves in court.

Charles Coleman is in agreement.
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#PressFreedom #USpol

Sebastian Lasse

@sl007@digitalcourage.social · last week

#LosAngeles
I am a journalist. I was covering the Afghanistan conflict.
I am from Europe, the nation always in the second row there – „a little off the front lines“.
We visited the gun factories in Darra and had Kalashnikows in our eyes- I did not see US soldiers there but:

I ASK YOU TO DEFEND PRESS FREEDOM TODAY AND TOMORROW !
And your democracy :_(

SAT Los Angeles City Hall at 2 p.m.

„Here are the planned actions across L.A.:“ https://laist.com/news/politics/la-nationwide-ice-out-protests-what-to-know-about-call-to-action

#LA #USPOL #PressFreedom #ICE
#LA0201 #FirstAmendment #GeorgiaFort #DonLemon, #JamaelLundy #TrahernCrews

LAist

LA to join nationwide ‘ICE Out’ protests. Here’s what to know about the call to action

Demonstrations will be held across the nation on Friday and Saturday.

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@ginaintheburg@mastodon.world · last week

BREAKING

David Noriega/CNN:

Don Lemon is charged under a statute from the Reconstruction Era & another meant to prevent people from depriving women of accessing abortion clinics.

This is information from DHS, but DOJ is the prosecuting agency and hasn't confirmed.

#PressFreedom
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Sebastian Lasse

@sl007@digitalcourage.social · last week

Seth Stern, the chief of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation.:

“These arrests under bogus legal theories for obviously constitutionally protected reporting are clear warning shots aimed at other journalists […] The unmistakable message is that journalists must tread cautiously because the government is looking for any way to target them. […]
The answer to this outrageous attack is not fear or self-censorship. It’s an even stronger commitment to journalism, the truth, and the First Amendment. If the Trump administration thinks it can bully journalists into submission, it is wrong.”

Katherine Jacobsen, the US, Canada and Caribbean Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists :

Lemon’s arrest “should alarm all Americans.
As an international organization, we know that the treatment of journalists is an indicator of the condition of a country’s democracy. The United States is doing poorly,”

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Sebastian Lasse

@sl007@digitalcourage.social replied · last week

Lisa Gilbert, Public Citizen:

“Reporters in America are free to view, document, and share information with the public,” Gilbert said. “This arrest is a constitutional violation, an outrage, an authoritarian breach, and utterly appalling.”

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/30/politics/don-lemon-custody
also Special Reports at the CPJ https://cpj.org/issue/press-freedom-in-the-us/

#GeorgiaFort #DonLemon, #JamaelLundy #TrahernCrews
#PressFreedom #USPOL #Fascism