Former CNN host Don Lemon was taken into custody for his role in the left-wing protest that took over a Minnesota church, his attorney said in a statement.

A Temple University student says he turned himself in on Monday on federal charges connected to the protest at a Minnesota church that was covered and livestreamed by journalist Don Lemon.

Experts said the church protest and fallout over the arrests of journalists who covered it are among many First Amendment challenges in Minnesota.

The anchorman, who was arrested over a protest in Minnesota, told an audience in Manhattan, “I’m not going to let them turn me around,” and sang lines from a civil rights era freedom song.

Don Lemon says he offered to turn himself in to face charges over his coverage of a protest at a church but federal agents were sent for him anyway.

Here’s the interesting thing,” Lemon responded. “I didn’t have a ‘one phone call.’ I asked them, ‘Do I get my one phone call?’ They said, ‘No, you don’t. You get to talk to your attorney whenever the court says that you can.

Lemon, a former CNN anchor, has argued he was exercising his First Amendment rights as a journalist during the protest at a church in St. Paul, Minn.

Arrests of journalists are “naked attacks on freedom of the press,” Freedom of the Press Foundation's Seth Stern told The Advocate.