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CNN’s Don Lemon Sued For Alleged Assault

posted 5 years ago by Satan2016 (25826)
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https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/13/cnn-don-lemon-lawsuit/

Dustin Hice is suing Lemon, a CNN host, and seeking an unspecified amount for “emotional pain and suffering,” according to the lawsuit, Mediaite reported. Hice alleges Lemon attacked him in July 2018 at a New York bar after he offered to buy Lemon a drink. The lawsuit reads that Lemon “rubbed his genitalia” and then shoved his fingers in Hice’s face.

“Mr. Lemon, who was wearing a pair of shorts, sandals, and a t-shirt, put his hand down the front of his own shorts, and vigorously rubbed his genitalia, removed his hand and shoved his index and middle fingers in Plaintiff’s moustache and under Plaintiff’s nose,” the suit reads.

Lemon allegedly asked Hice if he liked “pussy or dick” after shoving his fingers into Hice’s face repeatedly.
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‘Digusting’ Behavior: Witness Comes Forward In Don Lemon Assault Case
https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/16/witness-don-lemon-assault-case/

George Gounelas, Hice’s former manager at the bar where the alleged assault took place, told Fox News he witnessed the incident and supported Hice’s claims.

[–] Satan2016 (25826) 5 years ago

This precedes the above reaction by Lemon above.

https://nypost.com/2019/08/13/don-lemon-sued-by-hamptons-bartender-for-alleged-assault/

The group headed to Murf’s Backstreet Tavern in Sag Harbor, where Hice told The Post, “I see out of the corner of my eye, it’s Don Lemon’’ there, too.

“I had had two beers, maybe three at the most,’’ Hice recalled. “I said, ‘Hey, Don, let me buy you a drink.’ I turned to Nick the bartender and said, ‘Hey, Nick, let me get two [vodka] Lemon Drops’ and put two fingers in the air.

“Don was sitting with two or three other people, and he looks at me and goes, ‘I’m just trying to have a good time, man.’ I said, ‘Oh, OK, sorry,’ and that was it,’’ Hice said.

“I absolutely wasn’t hitting on him whatsoever,’’ Hice said of Lemon, 53, who is gay and married. “I’m a heterosexual male.”
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The accuser said he was so traumatized that he fled the bar and came back a couple minutes later to find Lemon gone.

“I had to go into work the next day, and by then, people all across town knew it,’’ Hice told The Post. “It spread like wildfire. And I had people coming in that week and ordering Lemon Drops and being like, ‘Give me two,’ ” infuriating and humiliating him, he said.