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At the end of January, federal officers arrested Don Lemon—formerly of CNN, now host of The Don Lemon Show on YouTube—and Georgia Fort, who spent years as a local television and radio journalist in Columbus, Georgia, and Duluth, Minnesota, before returning to her native Minneapolis and going independent. Lemon and Fort were accused of conspiring with activists to disrupt a religious service at a church in St. Paul whose pastor serves as a regional director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Seven protesters were also indicted. Both Fort and Lemon say they were there solely as journalists.…