""This is not the time for false equivalence, and putting people on television and news programs, giving them a platform, who will come on just to lie," he said. "People are sick of that. Some things are objectively bad, Jimmy.""
""Here's the interesting thing," Lemon responded. "I didn't have a 'one phone call.' I asked them, 'Do I get my one phone call?' They said, 'No, you don't. You get to talk to your attorney whenever the court says that you can.' And so that wasn't until the next day.""
""Finally, I got into the front of an FBI agent's truck, and they had the handcuffs on me and I had on a bracelet that my husband bought me for our wedding," Lemon said. "It kept getting caught. I was hurting. They said they'd take it off, and I said, 'Do you mind taking that up to room blah blah blah?' One of the FBI agents said 'Sure' and took it up. And that's how my husband found out. Otherwise, no one would have known where I was.""
Don Lemon was arrested for covering anti-ICE protests inside a Minnesota church and was later detained in his Los Angeles hotel on January 29 after a Grammys party. He spent about 12 hours in a holding room and was denied an immediate "one phone call," with access to counsel delayed until the next day. Attempts to contact his husband and lawyer via his Apple Watch failed while his husband slept. An FBI agent removed Lemon's bracelet and delivered it to his hotel room, which informed his husband of his location. Lemon used television appearances to position himself as a defender of journalism and criticize false equivalence.
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