Former CNN anchor Don Lemon was arrested by federal authorities on Thursday night, according to his attorney

The 59-year-old journalist, who is in California covering this weekend's Grammys, was reportedly taken into custody Thursday evening.

Don Lemon has said he was reporting as a journalist at a Minnesota church where protestors said a pastor also worked for ICE.

Lemon's "constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done," his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said.

Don Lemon, the prominent journalist and former CNN anchor, was arrested by federal agents Thursday in Los Angeles on charges that he violated a law while reporting on a protest at a church in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month. The saga represents a startling, if not new, turn in the Trump administration’s attacks on reporters and protesters.

If the Cities Church case falls apart, it will not be the first such embarrassment for Trump’s Justice Department.

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