Arrests of journalists fuel backlash as anti-ICE protests spread from Minneapolis

GEOFF BENNETT: Welcome to the "News Hour." The Justice Department said today it has  opened a federal civil rights investigation   into the shooting of Alex Pretti, the ICU nurse  killed by immigration officers in Minneapolis. AMNA NAWAZ: The FBI will conduct that probe.  That's a change from the department's stance   earlier this week, when it only agreed to a  more narrow inquiry into the use of force. That news followed more arrests in  Minnesota over a protest at a church. Special correspondent Fred  de Sam Lazaro has our report. PROTESTERS: You can't kill us all! FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Another wave of  protests swept through Minneapolis   today and echoed in cities across the country... (CHANTING) FRED DE SAM LAZARO: ... as  tensions grow over federal   immigration enforcement and the Trump  administration's response to dissent. Federal agents today arrested former CNN anchor  Don Lemon and three others in connection with   a January 18 protest at a church in St. Paul  where an ICE official serves as a pastor. Lemon,   who was fired from CNN in 2023, now  hosts an independent show on YouTube. The Justice Department has charged Lemon with  federal civil rights crimes. The National   Association of Black Journalists, along with  other news organizations, have condemned the move. DON LEMON, Former CNN Anchor: We're  here just chronicling and reporting.   We're not part of the activists, but  we're here just reporting on them. FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Lemon's lawyer says he  was there strictly in a journalistic role. DON LEMON: So this is what the First Amendment  is about, about the freedom to protest. FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Lemon has a history of  voicing his disdain for President Trump. GEORGIA FORT, Journalist: I wanted to alert the  public that agents are at my door right now. FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Independent Twin  Cities journalist Georgia Fort was   also arrested after federal agents  arrived at her home this morning. GEORGIA FORT: I don't feel like  I have my First Amendment right. FRED DE SAM LAZARO: Fort livestreamed  the moments before her arrest,   saying agents had a grand jury indictment. After her release hours later, Fort called  for the truth to be -- quote -- "amplified." GEORGIA FORT: Do we have a Constitution? That is the pressing question.