Independent journalist Georgia Fort was detained by federal agents this Friday morning (30).
Fort and dozens of anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protesters who stormed the Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month, disrupting a service and sparking tense clashes. Lemon was arrested on Thursday (29).
Journalists filmed the action of protesters against the , who interrupted a cult and leading to tense confrontations.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed in a post this morning on X that Lemon and Fort, as well as two other people, were arrested in connection with the .
“This all came about because I filmed a protest as a member of the press,” Fort said during a live stream on Facebook this morning, before turning himself in to agents.
Details about the charges Fort and Lemon face were not immediately released.
“It’s hard to understand how we have a constitution, constitutional rights, when you can be arrested simply for being a member of the press,” Fort said before ending this morning’s live broadcast.
Earlier, members of Fort’s family demanded the journalist’s release.
“This is wrong,” Fort’s teenage daughter tearfully said of the mother’s arrest.
“She is not a protester. She is not an activist. She is a mother who works to provide for her children the only way she knows how: by documenting and sharing community stories and the truth about what happens here every day in our state.”
