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RNS) — In video recorded on Friday (Nov. 14) outside the embattled U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, the Rev.
Michael Woolf stands alongside fellow protesters, fiddling awkwardly with his
backpack as faith leaders and other protesters chant slogans at a line of
police officers. A moment later, one officer can be seen walking forward,
grabbing Woolf by the wrist and yanking.
Demonstrators attempted to hold on to Woolf, who was wearing a clerical collar,
but four officers wrenched him from the crowd and tossed him to the ground.
After turning him onto his stomach, officers proceeded to arrest Woolf, and
removed him to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Maywood, Illinois.
“I’ve got bruises all over my body,” Woolf, an American Baptist minister who is
pastor of Lake Street Church of Evanston, Illinois, told
Religion News
Service. He was speaking in his first interview since being released Friday
afternoon after about seven hours in custody.
Woolf said when he asked the arresting officers to loosen the plastic handcuffs
that were causing his hands to go numb, an officer replied: “Nobody wants to
talk to you — shut the f–k up.”
“It’s part of the dehumanizing nature of it, and it’s it gives me a lot of
clarity around what’s happening here,” said Woolf, who has been active in
protests against ICE. “It’s really a spiritual emergency.”"
Via Joyce Donahue.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
