Frequently fired lefty news commentator Don Lemon was caught off guard by his arrest Thursday night at a swanky Los Angeles hotel in connection with his participation in a violent takeover of a Minnesota church service, law enforcement sources tell The Post.
Lemon, 59, who was in town covering the Grammy awards, was arrested by Department of Homeland Security and FBI agents in an elevator at the Beverly Hilton and taken into custody.He was brought to the downtown Los Angeles Homeland Security Investigations field office where he was interviewed before being brought to the federal courthouse in downtown LA.
The disgraced former CNN anchor turned activist was one of four people arrested by federal agents early Friday “in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota,” Attorney General Pam Bondi later confirmed in a statement.
Lemon filmed himself meeting with the group of agitators – which included a local Black Lives Member chapter – just before the group stormed into Cities Church in St. Paul on Jan. 18.
Under the paper-thin guise of covering the church takeover as a journalist, Lemon proceeded to stick his microphone in the face of the pastor, who asked him to leave, as well as numerous parishioners.Lemon spent the night in jail and is expected to make his first court appearance Friday afternoon.