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Philadelphia City Council Recognizes Temple Student Charged Alongside Don Lemon After Minnesota ICE Protest
The Justice Department said the demonstration interfered with constitutional rights to worship.
February 27, 2026
A Temple University student charged along with journalist Don Lemon after assisting in news coverage of an anti-ICE protest in Minnesota was recognized by Philadelphia City Council on Thursday.
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Jerome Richardson, a Minnesota native, said he helped Lemon coordinate logistics as the former CNN anchor planned to livestream coverage of a Sunday, Jan. 18 demonstration at Cities Church in St. Paul. Organizers focused on the church because one of its pastors, David Easterwood, heads the St. Paul ICE field office.
Richardson later turned himself in. Lemon said he offered to turn himself in, but federal agents came to a hotel in Los Angeles and took him into custody.
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