Source: Mike Pont / Getty The United States government, at the behest of Donald Trump, chose political revenge theater over protocol when arresting former CNN news anchor and now-independent journalist Don Lemon. Journalists are still reeling and repulsed by the idea that Lemon would be put in handcuffs and charged with a felony for chronicling a political uprising in Minnesota in the wake of the Alex Pretti and Renee Good killings at the hands of masked ICE agents.