'Agents at my door right now': Minnesota journalist arrested after filming church protest
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Minneapolis journalist Georgia Fort live-streams her arrest (Photo: Screen capture)
Another journalist has been arrested, according to local and national news reports. Georgia Fort, who hosts WCCO Radio's afternoon hours, has been covering the protests and arrests in Minneapolis for the past several weeks. CNN host Don Lemon was also taken into custody on Thursday night while in Los Angeles to cover the Grammy Awards.
KARE 11 news reports Nekima Levy Armstrong, a Minneapolis civil rights attorney and racial justice advocate, was also arrested. All three individuals arrested are Black.
Fort was at home when the FBI came to her door at approximately 6:30 a.m. local time and told her that they had a grand jury warrant for her arrest.
"Agents are at my door right now, they're saying they were able to go before a grand jury ... and they have a warrant for my arrest," Fort 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," Fort said in her video message. "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."