99% of cops will do what they're ordered to do, no matter how unconstitutional it is.
Their jobs, salaries, pensions, promotions, and benefits come before our rights and their oaths of office.
I wish it weren't so, but that's the reality.
Posted on 05/24/2020 9:12:30 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On Sunday, Chicago’s first openly gay mayor, Lori Lightfoot, mounted a raid on a black South Side church for holding services in defiance of her coronavirus lockdown orders.
Lightfoot reportedly sent three marked squad cars and two unmarked cars full of officers to the Chicago Cornerstone Baptist Church in the South Side’s Woodlawn neighborhood. Woodlawn is just south of Hyde Park, the area in which the Obamas lived for a short time before Barack became president.
Who’s growing tired of this lunacy?https://t.co/LXfabUIdBB
— Prov356🇺🇸 (@cujo_14) May 24, 2020
The pastor of the mostly black congregation, Courtney Lewis, reportedly shut and locked the doors and refused to allow the officers to gain entry to the building, Todd Starnes reported.
Pastor Lewis told Starnes that he felt like he was confronting “the Soviet-style KGB” as the officers pounded on his doors and demanded entry to shut the church down.
“Thankfully, our doors were locked as a normal safety precaution we take each service to protect our members from the escalating gun violence in Chicago,” Lewis said.
A sentry that is usually posted outside the sanctuary to monitor the street during service also reported seeing occupants of a dark car with tinted windows filming the incident through one opened window.
“All we are seeking is the same consideration and trust that is being tendered toward the liquor stores, abortion clinics, and Walmart,” Lewis told Starnes.
Lewis is also seeking help from U.S. Attorney John Lausch. “We are trying to follow the laws of man as much as reasonably possible, but when the laws of man conflict with the laws of God, I, as a pastor, have a duty to follow the laws of God,” Lewis wrote in a recent letter to Lausch. “We will not be intimidated by this overhanded government bully...
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“”She’s secretly working for Trump, trying to tip Illinois for the GOP””
I’ll bet that she expects that there are ample vote harvesting and mail-in ballot projects already in place
So, No Worries!
Perhaps these Dims are secretly expecting an October surprise to put them into office. An October surprise is an old frequent custom by liberals from the past.
WTH would cops OBEY these orders?? SICK...DEMENTED....Liberalism is a MENTAL DISORDER!
For sure!! Can’t have a Church be against UNNATURAL SEX ACTS, now can we?/s
Correct. Most of us here already knew, but perhaps it will wake up the sheep.
99% of cops will do what they're ordered to do, no matter how unconstitutional it is.
Their jobs, salaries, pensions, promotions, and benefits come before our rights and their oaths of office.
I wish it weren't so, but that's the reality.
“Gay attack on baptist church” should be the headline
Sadly, no cops were killed during the raid.
Congratulations to the pastor and his congregation for standing firm. Lightfoot attacked a Romanian Evangelical church last week, and the parishioners were impeded from getting in, their cars were towed, and iirc they were eventually forced out.
I think the churches are learning and fighting back, and Trump’s support for them is very encouraging.
These police goon squad tactics are terrifying and I can’t imagine how the congregation felt inside the church with the police pounding on the doors. There’s usually a lot of noise and commotion, with bullhorns and shouting and threats, so it took courage and faith to stay there.
Mz. mayor seems to be carving out a cohort of voters who probably will not support her/his in the next election. Just a guess.
Every cop that participated in this violated civil rights and should be sued.
Lucky that they didn’t set fire to the church.
The mayor is incapable of doing the job of a mayor. It is incompetent and insecure. When an incompetent and insecure individual is given power, it abuses it. This creature should never have been given any power over people. It obviously got its job because of its three special privilege cards.
The entire decision is well worth the read.
Where in HELL is the ACLU?
It’s a Fundamentalist church. The Black politicians won’t care, and neither will anyone else.
http://secondcitycop.blogspot.com/?m=1
Scroll down for the church story. And see “Wow. Just wow” for what the general assembly just did.
Siding with the bad guys.
He’s not going anywhere. He will be voted back to office in a landslide.
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