He's not being charged with for covering the news. He's being charged with his conduct while covering the news.
There's a saying. Journalists report the news. If they make the news they haven't done their jobs.
Lemon was not being arrested for reporting the news at all. This is just a bullshit smokescreen. His conduct before and in the church made him one of the participants (and possibly one of the ringleaders) of the unlawful invasion of the church.
The analogy someone made was two guys get pulled over for drag racing. One of them whips out a camera and a notebook and tells the cop "I'm just a journalist doing a piece on the dangers of speeding"
Surprise! He's getting a ticket just like the other guy and he deserves one.
The First Amendment doesn't apply here and the beauty of it is that Lemon has provided his own case against himself by having the whole thing on film.
About 50 years ago I took a couple journalism courses and that was pointed out to me during a class on journalistic law. You're only there to report the news.
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