Chicago Mayor Lightfoot Sends Police to Raid Black Church Disobeying Covid Lockdown Orders

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Democratic Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot allegedly dispatched police officers to raid a church that was defying the city’s Covid lockdown orders, conducting Sunday services at the church this past weekend.

Lightfoot allegedly sent three marked squad cars and two unmarked police vehicles to the predominantly black Cornerstone Baptist Church in the Woodlawn neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side.

Cornerstone Pastor Courtney Lewis was in the middle of a sermon when he heard loud banging on the church’s front doors. After discovering it was the police, Lewis ordered the men of the church to lock the doors and deny the officers entry.

Lewis said he felt he was confronting “Soviet-style KGB.”

“Thankfully, our doors were locked as a normal safety precaution we take each service to protect our members from the escalating gun violence in Chicago,” Lewis told Todd Starnes.

Lewis has since reached out to U.S. Attorney John Lausch for help.

“We are trying to follow the laws of man as much as reasonably possible, but when the laws of man conflict with the laws of God, I, as a pastor, have a duty to follow the laws of God,” Lewis wrote in a letter to Lausch.

“We will not be intimidated by this overhanded government bully, but we are requesting the assistance of our president and our Justice Department in correcting this grave miscarriage of the law.”

Lightfoot recently fined three churches $500 for holding services and sent patrol vehicles to block the entry of a church parking lot.

Photo by Cornerstone Baptist Church

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