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CHICAGO (WGN) — A Chicago pastor is speaking out after being shot in the head with pepper-spray projectiles by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a protest last month.

Reverend David Black is the lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. He’s part of a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) following what’s described as “lethal and brutal suppression of First Amendment rights.”

The incident, that was captured on video , happened on Sept. 19 outside an ICE detention center in Broadview, Illinois.

Black said he was praying during the protest when he was struck several times in the head and

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