Chicago pastor claims the mayor sent armed police in unmarked cars to bang on the church doors Sunday: It was ‘like the Soviet-styled KGB’

the Blaze ^ | 05/26/2020 | Phil Shiver

[Tench_Coxe]

Chicago Pastor Courtney Lewis said he was in the middle of delivering a sermon to his congregation Sunday when he heard loud banging on the church doors. It was the police sent by the city's Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Lightfoot had allegedly dispatched officers in three squad cars along with two unmarked vehicles in order to shut down the service at Cornerstone Baptist Church, Lewis claimed in a letter of grievance to U.S. Attorney John Lausch.

[Tench_Coxe]

"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat."--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

[ifinnegan]

Great quote.

If this causes just a small percent not to vote for Sloe Joe Trump could win Illinois.

[jjotto]

The President should federalize the National Guard and send them to protect churches. Prosecute Lightfoot’s Gestapo for civil rights violations.

[JohnBrowdie]

I don’t think the KGB knocked. jus’ sayin’

[redshawk]

Chicago. ... .Churches ....we don’t need no churches. .....

I wonder how many were shot in Chicago this past holiday weekend?

[Redcitizen]

It’s a kinder, gentler KGB, that’s why they banged on the doors. Next time it will be the SWAT team knocking doors down.

[I want the USA back]

The mayor will not suffer any consequences. It has three free passes to commit crime and violate the rights of citizens. In fact, it believes that this will qualify it to become governor.

[sickoflibs]

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[nonliberal]

Head shots.

[lightman]

“At least 13 are killed and 32 more are injured in multiple shootings during Memorial Day weekend of bloodshed across St Louis and Chicago”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3848550/posts

[redshawk]

Thanks for the info. ....good thing the cops are more worried about the churches rather than the shootings. ....(sad joke)

[EC Washington]

It doesn’t matter. Putzker refuses to follow court orders. The last time he lost in court he just shrugged his shoulders and walked out of the room. He is telling these judges “So what are you going to do to me?”

Fred Flintstone does not care what anyone says or thinks about him.

[lightman]

No problem...I remembered seeing a number MUCH earlier in the day. Took a little searching.

[livius]

I hope that he files a civil rights suit. Iirc, there was something yesterday that said he was going to do that.

We’ve got to stop this fascist tyranny now while we still can.

Trump, where are you???

[Thommas]

It was ‘like the Soviet-styled KGB’

Like the KGB? The Democrats, the Democrat 'elected' officials, ANTIFA, BLM, the MSM - they ARE the KGB.

[Maudeen]

Let’s face it. . .the city of Chicago is a “hell hole”. They should welcome Bible Believing Christians to plant more churches in and around the city. This is last days stuff. Now is the time to witness to your non-believing family members and friends.

[myerson]

These Christians locked themselves inside their church to keep from getting shot and killed out in the streets of Chicago.

[CharlesWayneCT]

49 shootings in Chicago, and 10 deaths. And they wasted 5 police cruisers and a dozen or more cops TRYING to raid one church for holding a service.

[lakecumberlandvet]

Cops doing the devil’s bidding. I can say that I’m disappointed but I can’t say that I’m surprised.

[packrat35]

Cops “just following orders” in all this is going to cost them trust for much of the people who were once their biggest defenders.