{"id":44423,"date":"2026-02-14T01:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=44423"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:45:18","slug":"i-will-not-back-down-don-lemon-enters-not-guilty-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=44423","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I Will Not Back Down\u2019: Don Lemon Enters Not Guilty Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: \u2018I Will Not Back Down\u2019: Don Lemon Enters Not Guilty Plea<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p><span>Back<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-8p0vwh\">\u2018I Will Not Back Down\u2019: Don Lemon Enters Not Guilty Plea<\/h2>\n<h4 class=\"css-qsd3hm\">The journalist Don Lemon entered a not guilty plea on Friday to two accounts stemming from his participation in a protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., last month.<\/h4>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">Far left. Going your way here. How do you feel going in? This is what community looks like. Show me what community looks like. This is what community looks like. I wanted to say this isn\u2019t just about me. This is about all journalists, especially here in the United States. For more than 30 years, I\u2019ve been a journalist, and the power and protection of the First Amendment has been the underpinning of my work. The First Amendment, the freedom of the press, the bedrock of our democracy. I will not be intimidated. I will not back down. I will fight these baseless charges and I will not be silenced. Thank you very much. Thank you.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-hple31\">The journalist Don Lemon entered a not guilty plea on Friday to two accounts stemming from his participation in a protest at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Meg Felling<\/p>\n<p>February 13, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>new video loaded: \u2018I Will Not Back Down\u2019: Don Lemon Enters Not Guilty Plea transcript Back transcript \u2018I Will Not Back Down\u2019: Don Lemon Enters Not Guilty Plea The journalist Don Lemon entered a not guilty plea on Friday to two accounts stemming from his participation in a protest at Cities Church in St. Paul,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[8519,12307,6804,22649,355],"class_list":{"0":"post-44423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-don","9":"tag-enters","10":"tag-guilty","11":"tag-lemon","12":"tag-plea"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}