Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested in connection with Minnesota protest(abcnews.go.com)
64 pointsby tortilla8 days ago7 comments
  • comrade12348 days ago
    The murderers are in the equivalent of witness protection and they're arresting journalists. Not a good look.
    • smashed8 days ago
      I wonder if the US population understands that the entire world now knows the US is under a fascist regime and is cutting ties as fast as possible. The economic repercussions of this regime will be felt for years to come. Look at the USD/EUR or USD/CAD exchange rates over the last year.

      edit: thanks for the downvotes. I know political comments are frowned upon on HN and that is fine. I tried to be factual but my tone was probably off.

      • Recurecur7 days ago
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        • lores7 days ago
          Hello. There is a paramilitary force murdering people with impunity. The president and its administration consider themselves above the law. They encourage political violence against their enemies. They use state power to punish dissent. Corporatism reigns. Minorities and intellectuals are scapegoated.

          I'm going to say you're the one who doesn't understand the word "fascist".

          • smashed7 days ago
            Thank you for saying it better than I could.
        • smashed7 days ago
          It's a spectrum and the changes are gradual, but if you zoom out, would you say the current administration is more or less fascist than the previous ones?

          The US economy might be booming yes but I was referring to how it relates internationally. The value of the US dollar is on a downward trend. Trump might be pushing Buy America but for the rest of the world, it's Sell America.

    • 0xy8 days ago
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      • bradleyankrom8 days ago
        He wasn't breaking in with a mob, he was a journalist covering the event.
        • boxed8 days ago
          It sure looked like he was a part of the organizing of the event. But you mean the organizers phoned him up and informed him that they were going to storm a church or something?
          • t-37 days ago
            > But you mean the organizers phoned him up and informed him that they were going to storm a church or something?

            Yes, probably. The whole point of protest is to be public and raise awareness of the issue. Getting a journalist to cover their controversial church protest is exactly what I would expect a competent protester to do.

            • boxed7 days ago
              I've also seen the "interviews" though. He's interviewing the victims of the harassment and he's not interviewing them, he's pushing the agenda. You should go watch them with this in mind.
      • danesparza8 days ago
        "Lemon's attorney, Abbe Lowell, said last week that a magistrate judge rejected charges against Lemon. A source told ABC News that Bondi last week was "enraged" at the magistrate judge's decision to not charge the journalist."
      • therobots9278 days ago
        I think that’s more than justified when the pastor trafficks children.
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  • pcf7 days ago
    This is not HN material.
  • data_Is_Raciss8 days ago
    It’s nice to see laws enforced. Unfortunate that it has become such a controversy when it happens across a growing range of law and order.
  • xdennis7 days ago
    This is not surprising. America is basically engaged in a tit-for-tat.

    There were several right wing journalists abducted for documenting J6:

    * Steve Baker, working for Blaze Media, https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-arresting-reporter-sparks-maga-...

    * Owen Shroyer, InfoWars, 2 months in prison, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/infowars-host-owen-shr...

    * multiple other independent journalists

    • bigbadfeline7 days ago
      > This is not surprising. America is basically engaged in a tit-for-tat.

      They're using the "two wrongs make a right" theory again? Still haven't figured out that it's just double wrong?

      Even worse, it's not really a tit-for-tat, it's a theater of tit-for-tat, a slow-boiling theater which habituates more and more oppression. Why wouldn't both sides use it - it gives them exactly what they want.

    • gdubs7 days ago
      I feel like Americans need to not fall into a "both sides" framing of what's happening. These situations are not honestly equivalent.
      • t-37 days ago
        It's about face, not facts. "We need to get them how they got us"
    • sooklord7 days ago
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  • boxed8 days ago
    > "Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done," Lowell said in a statement. "The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable."

    I mean.. he posted the videos so we can all see that this isn't the case. Journalism doesn't normally produce the chaos that they report on.