Pastor Quincy Worthington

ICE has been escalating their response to protesters every time we've gone.

So I think I was a little taken back in the moment that it was just a random pot shot that they took at him.

But it wasn't entirely surprising that that's how they responded.

When I started going in September, what we would notice is an escalation both throughout the day and then every week that we would go.

So what that would mean was originally it felt like there would be some people who would block the driveway or we would be in the road.

But they would come out with absolutely zero warning.

There wouldn't be any orders to move until they were starting to push and shove people.

And so it started with them pushing and shoving people, throwing people to the ground.

And then as the day progressed, you would see that get more and more violent.

And what would happen essentially is it first started early in the day when vehicles would come in and out, that they were trying to keep the road clear and protesters away.

At least I assume that's what they were trying to do.

Then it seemed like they would randomly come out and just attack us.

And so the pattern would be, you would see one to three agents appear on the roof.

You would see a drone go up in the air.

And that's when you knew something was coming.

And then as the gate would open, the men from the roof would shoot down pepper balls onto the protesters and sometimes rubber bullets.

The gates would open anywhere from 20 to 50

agents, depending on how large the crowd, I guess, would be, would then rush into the crowd, essentially throwing tear gas at us, shooting us with pepper balls.

I saw canisters of pepper spray that they would just douse the crowd in.

They would shove people to the ground.