A Presbyterian minister struck by ICE projectiles while protesting outside a Chicago-area immigrant facility has joined a lawsuit accusing the federal government of “brutally” suppressing free speech.

Rev. David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, is among the plaintiffs in a 52-page suit the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division. Fellow plaintiffs include journalism organizations and outlets, individual journalists, clergy members, and protesters who found themselves at the business end of ICE rubber bullets or tear gas canisters in what they charged were unprovoked attacks.

On Wednesday, video of the Sept. 19 alleged attack on Black taken by a fellow demonstrator went

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