Don Lemon, the former CNN anchor, was released on Friday after being arrested late on Thursday on charges that he violated federal law during a protest at a church in Minnesota earlier this month.

Outside a federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles after his release, Lemon vowed not to be silenced, saying: “I have spent my entire career covering the news. I will not stop now.”

“The first amendment to the US Constitution protects that work for me and countless other journalists who do what I do. I stand with all of them, and I will not be silenced. I look forward to my day in court.”

The justice department charged Lemon and three others with civil rights crimes, saying they interfered with the exercise of religious freedom at a place of worship and conspired to do so.

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    “This is outrageous and cannot stand. The First Amendment is under attack in America!” Lemon’s former CNN colleague Jim Acosta wrote in a post on X.

    Every time I see it I can’t believe there’s anyone of note left on X; particularly after it’s CSAM machine phase.