What a photograph.

[sheshe2]

What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

What a photograph.

“Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…”

Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) 2025-11-15T13:51:00.253Z

[travelingthrulife]

1. Yes, that is one compelling photo. Down on the pavement, bruised face with

pectoral cross on display.

Doesn't hurt that he sort of looks like Rock Hudson in that photo.

[surfered]

2. Where are the Evangelicals? Too busy worshipping Trump to notice what's happening?

[FoxNewsSucks]

10. they're also too busy worrying what others are

doing in the bedroom, someone might be having fun. Or getting a bj and they're not

[surfered]

25. And restroom monitors to make sure we're using the "right" one

[Cha]

40. Yeah, Too Busy Worshipping the Rapist

Pedophile.

[brer cat]

3. The MAGAts are such fine christians!

[sheshe2]

4. They collected their 30 pieces of silver.

[iluvtennis]

16. They are anti Christ just like their leader. n/t

[Farmer-Rick]

5. Did they finally get around to reading the new testament?

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Maybe some of the religious really believe that stuff from Jesus's sermon on mount.....

[obamanut2012]

7. They are many progressive Christians and denominations

I belong to one.

[erronis]

11. I feel sorry for the good people of any faith or no faith. The bad apples....

[Mossfern]

15. My synagogue partners with

"Progressive" churches in the area on human rights issue and other "left wing" concerns.
It's the right wing evangelicals and holy rollers who are giving Christianity a bad name.
As as person of Jewish faith, I know how this feels to be vilified unjustly.

Of course the churches that we work with aren't necessarily progressive - just Christian.

[electric_blue68]

38. We love St John the Divine Cathedral in NYC. Liberal Episcopalian

[Farmer-Rick]

45. They seem to be in very short supply lately

Or they are invisible and don't know how to get their beliefs out there.

[CTyankee]

9. I'm looking for that Sermon to find a mention of abortion.

The one that says "Blessed are the women who don't have abortions."

[COL Mustard]

20. It's in

Hippocrates, verses 4 through 9.

[erronis]

32. Hypocrites, all verses.

[BlueKota]

26. One of my friends from college became a priest.

We were sitting eating lunch one day when a few evangelical girls who were in a religious class he was taking, came over and started trying to debate him.

I remember him saying to them, "do you ever notice all you ever quote is the old testament? You might want to consider reading the New Testament. You know, the one that deals with what Jesus Christ taught us. The person whom Christianity was founded on." They huffed and stalked off. I high fived him. He said he considered the New Testament like a codicil to a will, in this case, the will being the Old Testament. It changed a lot of things.

[Farmer-Rick]

43. Yeah, to me that sermon on the mount

If you believe the bible, should be the defining moments for Christianity. But it seems Christians everywhere ignore it or downplay it. The message is just too tough for them to accept. It really lays out some principles that most people can't handle.

[BlueKota]

46. There is a hymn we used to sing in Mass alot

"Whatsoever you do, for the least of my brothers that you do onto me." That song defined to me personally, what Jesus expected of those who follow and believe in him.

Apparently a lot of christian nationalists don't believe the same way.

[Farmer-Rick]

47. Yeah, it seems they have taken out

The Christ from Christianity. And hold on to all the old testament hate and destruction.

My spouse was a strong Christian and they always emphsized the love, kindness and care for others. I guess that's not popular anymore. It's all about the hate now. At least that is the message that gets advertised and encouraged in the media and popular internet sites.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Arresting a priest is never a good move

[popsdenver]

18. Not under normal situations

but when have these NEW RepubliCONs cared about anything they care to do.....

Everyday I warn others........you ain't seen nothing yet in their un-impeded march forwards, folks........

[Fil1957]

8. Have these thugs ever heard of optics?

[COL Mustard]

21. You do realize that

Those aren't Federal police? They're identified in the Reuters article as Illinois State Police.

[orangecrush]

36. I read the Reuters article

I must have missed that

Saw a statement was made by the Sheriffs Dept

[travelingthrulife]

24. See January 6th Insurrection

[Joinfortmill]

12. The rise of Fascism in the United States of America

[kentuck]

13. The definition of jack-booted thugs...

...in one photograph.

[Pluvious]

14. I would like to hope...

That this image, and this occurrence,
will be seen by history as an inflection point

---
True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else
-Clarence Darrow

[MyOwnPeace]

17. Great to see....

that there’s at least one ‘Clarence’ that recognizes ‘injustice’ without looking for a way to fill his wallet.

[Amaryllis]

31. Another iconic photo.

[calimary]

48. Iconic, embarrassing, and frankly, heartbreaking.

That poor priest! This was probably the last kind of treatment he ever expected. And only because he cared enough to show up to offer support to fellow protesters. If it can happen to the local priest, it can happen to anybody.

[enigmania]

19. Pulitzer level.

[calimary]

49. Yep. It's a really riveting image.

[republianmushroom]

22. The republican American Gestapo at work.

They seek bonus from Noem for this.

[Niagara]

23. Good Trouble!

The man in this Reuters photo is Rev. Michael Woolf.

In video recorded on 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 Nov. 14 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."

https://www.ncronline.org/news/least-7-faith-leaders-arrested-broadview-ice-facility-protest

[BlueKota]

27. It's not my job to judge people.

All I will say is the Iceman needs to be careful. Ice melts quickly in extreme heat.

[Niagara]

29. Indeed, BlueKota!

Indeed.

[allegorical oracle]

30. Infuriating. No excuse for pure violence. It boggles my mind that these

goons are so unprofessionally abusive. Watched a video the other day that showed officers yanking a young woman from the driver's seat of her SUV. Two big apes were each holding one of her legs and her tail end slammed from the car seat right down to the pavement. It had to be painful and possibly injured her.

Similarly, what right do they have to wreck your car or home -- just slashing out the windows -- without knowing whether the occupants are even guilty of anything?

Where are the lawyers who can file suits against the government, whether its local, state or feds?

[Niagara]

34. Are you referring to the mother in Chicago picking up her children at school?

I caregive for an elderly man who has dementia and luckily he's Democratic and has been all his life. I was telling him about this particular incident and he starts laughing and like he didn't believe me and asked me where this happened at. Some of what's happening today is so insane I don't think that he believed me until I showed him this video.


I had to explain it's happening all over the country. I had to use my phone to look up this particular event and I explained that the mom was in her locked vehicle in the pick up lane at an elementary school when this happened. She had I.D. but ICE didn't care until they threw her on the ground first.


I also told my client that I'm banking that most ICE agents are pardoned insurrectionists without any LEO training.


ICE was just in Elmwood in Buffalo about a day or two ago and Buffalo is a diverse neighborhood. I would imagine since Buffalo leans Democratic that they're still in Buffalo harassing people.


I believe that anyone who is protesting these violent goons are what our beloved John Lewis would refer to as "Good Trouble."
I applaud and support them for fighting against racism.

[allegorical oracle]

35. Believe that's her -- the face and hair look the same. These brutes are being

purposely hateful. She isn't the first I've seen get picked up and thrown to the ground. When did it get heroic to pick up women and slam them around? There should be a mental test before some men are permitted to wear a uniform or badge of any sort. Once they're "official" they become idiots.

[Farmer-Rick]

44. Wow, that says it all

It's as if the jack booted thugs recognized him as one of them. And they were furious that he acted on the side of helping the downtrodden. The police thugs for ICE were expecting all the religious to be on their side.

[Deuxcents]

28. I'm glad to see the people of the cloth getting involved

I don’t care which cloth it is..all religions believe in The Beatitudes as interrupted in their holy books. Seems those who preach it are doing the necessary work

[peggysue2]

33. Bravo to these faith leaders

I've been asking months on end: Where are the legitimate faith leaders, those who still follow a code of morality, love and forgiveness?

Well, now they've arrived. Each photograph like the one above is both infuriating but a powerful reminder of how out of control ICE has become and how antithetical to the Christian message these assaults truly are.

Hattip to this clergyman and all the others of different denominations and faiths who are willing to put their bodies on the line for the sake of others. This is what faith looks like as opposed to the false piety and/or lack of empathy Trumpers embrace.

[Justice matters.]

37. Of course nobody in the press corp will send this to kkkaroline leaveit nt

[NHvet]

39. I am atheist

but even I find it repulsive to throw a person of faith on the ground and manhandle them because they are protesting your actions. DISGUSTING!!!!

[czarjak]

41. F-Father's feelings?

Got it!

[AllaN01Bear]

42. yah , we are used to that.