{"id":317830,"date":"2026-02-14T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/don-lemon-speaks-after-pleading-not-guilty-to-mn-church-protest-charges\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:00:11","slug":"don-lemon-speaks-after-pleading-not-guilty-to-mn-church-protest-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/don-lemon-speaks-after-pleading-not-guilty-to-mn-church-protest-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Lemon speaks after pleading not guilty to MN church protest charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/LXScAiUJ8PI\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Don Lemon speaks after pleading not guilty to MN church protest charges\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXScAiUJ8PI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Former CNN anchor and independent journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty\u00a0to federal charges following his arrest last month in connection with a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota.\u00a0Lemon is charged with two federal crimes: conspiring to violate someone\u2019s constitutional rights and violating the FACE Act, which prohibits the use of force or threats to intentionally interfere with someone expressing their First Amendment right to practice religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CNN anchor and independent journalist Don Lemon pleaded not guilty\u00a0to federal charges following his arrest last month in connection with a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota.\u00a0Lemon is charged with two federal crimes: conspiring to violate someone\u2019s constitutional rights and violating the FACE Act, which prohibits the use of force or threats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":317831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[135046,128872,131084],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-317830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-anchor","tag-former","tag-independent"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Don Lemon speaks after pleading not guilty to MN church protest charges | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Don Lemon speaks after pleading not guilty to MN church protest charges for free, here on News ISC. 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