“It is absolutely outrageous that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) arrested Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and other journalists for covering a protest against the Trump administration’s deadly immigration enforcement. These arrests are chilling, by design – but they will backfire. In Minnesota, Chicago, Los Angeles, Charlotte, Portland Oregon and Portland Maine, and so many other places, moms and other Americans have made clear that we will defend our fundamental rights every time the increasingly authoritarian Trump administration violates them.

“The First Amendment of our U.S. Constitution still stands and journalists have every right to cover protests, like the one at Cities Church. We have confidence that the media will not be intimidated by these arrests, nor will those of us who are protesting the immigration raids that are destroying families, imperiling children, forcing communities to live in fear, and undermining our care workforce and our entire economy. It is disgraceful and unAmerican that President Trump’s DOJ is violating, rather than protecting our most fundamental constitutional rights.”