Pastor Quincy Worthington
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So there are very limited facilities for hygiene.
We hear that they get one meal a day.
They're basically 250 men packed into a single room with no air.
So we hear complaints that it's really a hellish place to be.
At the beginning of September, I went to a Faith Over Fear rally and press conference in Daly Plaza that was about Operation Midway Blitz ramping up and about a faithful response to that.
Through conversation of asking him what was going on and what he was doing, he told me about Broadview and the things that were going on there.
And he said that it would be really great to have more clergy presence there because we provide a sense of calm and can help deescalate things sometimes if it needs to be deescalated.
And so I told him I would be happy to join him at those and went that Friday.
And then that night when the picture was taken,
He and I had actually just arrived there together, and I was checking in with people at a supply table, finding out who the medics are because they'd been releasing chemical munitions on us before.
And one of the things I've been trying to help do is get protesters safely away from the chemical munitions and to get them medical treatment if they need it, helping flush out eyes.
And while I was connecting there, David went up front, as he usually does,
to pray to plead to the humanity of the officers and he had finished doing that and was turning around to walk away and the agent on the roof shot him in the top of the head with a pepper ball
You're surprised every time it happens.