To a priest peacefully protesting!
By Nic FlosiPublishedOctober 8, 2025FOX 32 ChicagoThe Brief
- Video shows a federal agent firing pepper balls at protesters outside the Broadview ICE facility in September.
- According to Storyful, one pepper ball struck Chicago Pastor David Black, a Presbyterian minister, in the head.
- The ACLU says Black is part of a lawsuit alleging the government suppressed First Amendment rights.
A video shows a federal agent firing pepper balls at protesters outside the ICE processing center in the Chicago suburb of Broadview last month, striking a Chicago pastor in the head.[...]Big picture view:The incident comes amid heightened federal immigration enforcement in the Chicago area under President Donald Trump, which has led to daily and sometimes tense demonstrations outside the Broadview facility.The American Civil Liberties Union said in a statement on Monday that Black and others are seeking an emergency court order to halt what they describe as "illegal and brutal suppression" of their free speech rights.
The National Catholic Reporter writes...
Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray."I invited them to repentance," Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. "I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming."But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire."We could hear them laughing," Black said.It was one of several dramatic and violent scenes that unfolded in recent weeks near an ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. About 12 miles from downtown Chicago, the suburban site has seen scores of demonstrators repeatedly confront ICE agents — sometimes jeering at agents or using acts of civil disobedience to block the entrance to the facility as part of a groundswell of protests against President Donald Trump's ongoing immigration crackdown in the city. The agents, mostly masked, have often responded with force, arresting demonstrators, tossing gas canisters, firing nonlethal rounds at activists and journalists and sometimes throwing protesters — including at least one local Democratic congressional candidate — to the ground.
These are the thugs that Trump is hiring... laughing at shooting a priest! These are nothing more than hired thug just waiting to bash head!
Then we have the "invasion" on an apartment building in Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago with helicopters a couple of weeks ago... no warrants but they busted into U.S. citizens apartment without warrants!
"It was heartbreaking to watch," said a neighbor who described seeing "buck naked" children getting separated from their mothers during the raid on a South Side apartment building.PeopleBy Janelle GriffithOctober 2, 2025NEED TO KNOW
- The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents from various agencies arrested 37 people without legal immigration status during an overnight raid, plus at least one U.S. citizen
- Eye witnesses described children, including some who were unclothed, being separated from their mothers and held in vans
- Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson have condemned the federal response, saying it is not making the city safer
For months President Donald Trump threatened to escalate immigration enforcement in Chicago, and this week those threats came to bear in a dramatic way.
But what is most disturbing is,
Rodrick Johnson, 67, was among the U.S. residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid, he told the Sun-Times. He told the outlet agents broke through his door, dragged him out in zip ties and left him tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before he was released."I asked if they had a warrant, and I asked for a lawyer," he told the Sun-Times. "They never brought one."
These were U.S. citizens who were sleeping peacefully when their doors were busted open!
What does this remind you of? What countries bust down citizens doors in the middle of the night! Where in history have we seen this before?
Trump & Company are tearing up the Constitution and the First Amendment with gleeful abandonment in the name of patriotism!
Here comes the Judge!
Trump's prosecutors are before judges this morning defending Trump use of the Guard.
It could be one the most high-profile legal battles since Trump took office.ABC NewsBy Peter CharalambousOctober 9, 2025In two courthouses on opposite sides of the country, Donald Trump’s attempt to send troops into Democratic-led cities will face a critical legal test on Thursday.The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is set to hold oral arguments at noon on whether to lift a lower court’s order blocking the deployment of troops into Portland, while a District Judge in Chicago has a hearing at the same time to consider stopping the deployment of the National Guard in Illinois.The dueling hearings sets the stage for one of the most high-profile legal battles since President Trump took office, as local governments turn to the courts to stop what some judges have described as blurring of the line between military and civilian rule.[...]In an amicus brief filed on Thursday, a group of former secretaries of the Army and Navy and retired four-star admirals and generals encouraged Judge Perry to express caution about the broader use of the National Guard in domestic operations.“Domestic deployments that fail to adhere to [the Posse Comitatus Act] threaten the Guard’s core national security and disaster relief missions; place deployed personnel in fraught situations for which they lack specific training, thus posing safety concerns for servicemembers and the public alike; and risk inappropriately politicizing the military, creating additional risks to recruitment, retention, morale, and cohesion of the force,” lawyers for the former military leaders wrote.
Trump is not trying to weaponize ICE and the Guard but rather desensitize us to the use of him using the military against citizens!
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