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Pastor Shot in Head by “Less Lethal” Round at Chicago-Area ICE Protest Joins Lawsuit

HeadlineOct 09, 2025
Image Credit: Kelly Hates via Storyful

A pastor is one of several plaintiffs suing the Trump administration after he was shot directly in the head by a pepper ball fired by ICE agents on a roof during protests at the Broadview ICE facility just outside Chicago. Video of the assault shows Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago immediately falling to the ground; just before the attack, he was praying.

Meanwhile, a lawyer for the woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Chicago says that she did not ram her car into the agents as they claimed, and that her gun was stored in her purse. Marimar Martinez was arrested for assaulting a federal officer after DHS claimed that the agent fired their weapon in self-defense. 

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