Journalist arrested after covering anti-ICE protest says it was ‘very frightening’ to experience government overreach

The former CNN anchor Don Lemon has warned the US must “keep fighting” for its right to a free press, calling it “the breath in the lungs of democracy” following his arrest alongside another journalist by the Trump administration.

Lemon was arrested late last month, days after covering an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service.