Four additional people have been arrested in a protest at a St. Paul church, including journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort.

U.S. Attorney Pam Bondi posted on social media that Lemon and Fort, along with St. Paul activist Trahern Crews and Jamael Lundy, are under arrest. Lundy works at the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office as the intergovernmental affairs coordinator and is married to St. Paul City Council Member Anika Bowie.

Last week, three people were arrested and charged with disrupting services inside Cities Church on Summit Avenue, near Snelling Avenue, in St. Paul on Jan. 18. They said the acting field office director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota serves as a pastor at the church.

Charged last week were civil rights attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, St. Paul School Board member Chauntyll Allen and social media personality William Scott Kelly.

The recent arrests came after a magistrate judge last week rejected prosecutors’ initial bid to charge Lemon.

Fort is an independent journalist based in the Twin Cities.

Federal agents arrested Fort at her home just after 6 a.m. Friday and took her to the federal Whipple Building, according to BLCK Press, which Fort founded.

“She said in a video, ‘As a member of the press, I filmed the church protest a few weeks ago and now I’m being arrested for that. It’s hard to understand how we have a Constitution, Constitutional rights, when we can just be arrested for being a member of the press,’” BLCK Press posted on social media Friday morning.

Lemon, who was fired from CNN in 2023, has said he has no affiliation to the organization that went into the church and that he was there as a journalist chronicling protesters.

This is a breaking story and will be updated. The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

Related Articles

Journalist Don Lemon arrested after protest that disrupted Minnesota church service

DHS ramps up surveillance in immigration raids, sweeping in citizens

Celebrities speak out against ICE: ‘Turn anger into action’

Feds drop case against Guatemalan man in alleged ICE assault in Virginia, Minn.

Bells will ring in unity across the Twin Cities on Saturday