From 2000 to 2002, MTV ran a show called "Jackass." It starred a group of young men who would perform high-risk stunts just to see what would happen. Because they captured everything they did on video and produced it all into a show, it made for compelling entertainment, targeting mostly teenage boys. The ingredients to its success were shock, rebellion, and a visceral quality that made viewers see it as authentic.
Fast forward to today and the ICE protests across the country, especially the ones in Portland, Ore., and Chicago, Ill, and it becomes apparent that the left may have found its sequel to that MTV show. The cast of characters in this edition belong to a dangerous theater kid troop called Antifa, which has rightfully earned a place on the domestic terrorism watchlist.
In this present-day reality TV show, the players confront federal ICE agents who are working to enforce immigration law. They knowingly and intentionally put their bodies between SUVs and walls, fences, and the road. Some get hurt and blame the cars for their own actions. They burn and destroy public and private property. They create public camp sites on city streets that make homeless encampments look like Beverly Hills.
A good number of them capture all of this activity on smartphones that are still paid for by their parents.
This week, one anti-ICE activist may have emerged as a new “Johnny Knoxville.” He’s none other than an actual Presbyterian minister from Chicago named David Black. If you want to see what he’s been up to, check out this video where he appears to step off of public property (the sidewalk) and onto the federal facility’s driveway that federal agents repeatedly warn him not to step on. As any good provocateur would do, he seems to defy their order, apparently to test law enforcement officers and their will to enforce their commands.
Temu "priest" was told several times to stay off federal property and refused to comply. BOOM headshot with a pepper ball! pic.twitter.com/TKhXgTuKSN
— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) October 8, 2025
People have done worse for clicks and shares, but what makes this video powerful from a leftist propaganda standpoint is the fact that he’s wearing the collar of Christian clergy; he’s putting himself in harm’s way for the cause he purports to believe in; he’s effectively playing the role of peacenik, while his own defiance is inspiring more violent comrades all around him; and he’s nonverbally telling the media and his fellow anti-ICE sympathizers that if he’s willing to make such a personal sacrifice, he must literally be on the side of the angels. It’s a narrative that a ready-and-willing news media eats up.
But Black was not done. In another instance, he confronted ICE agents face-to-face, forcing one of them to use pepper spray on him to get him to back off. The resulting still photo was a vintage throwback to 1968, a year that boomer libs wax nostalgic about incessantly.
There’s a still photo of the moment the pepper spray hit the priest’s face - horrifying. It’s so graphic that the impact is similar to others taken at pivotal moments in history. pic.twitter.com/0UbVQeWQQc
— Cindy - reluctant texan (@ckn4502) October 8, 2025
Here’s video of the same incident where you can see Black is part of a group that had advanced toward ICE agents, who then had to repel the group backward. Black apparently was not being as cooperative as other members of his group when the agents had to use pepper spray on him and others.
FAFO is obvious if the actual video was posted instead of cherry picked photos. Context is always key:
— ⚡️PepperJack⚡️ (@mmullins001) October 8, 2025
■ David Black was obstructing the driveway of an ICE facility and physically pushed back against a federal agent who was attempting to clear the protesters from the driveway… https://t.co/zk9GYwtkoY pic.twitter.com/MwB82kU7Sc
Black is a known political agitator in Chicago, as this post on X demonstrates. In addition to his alliance with Antifa on the anti-ICE demonstrations, he’s apparently not opposed to abortion, and he’s actively supported the LGBTQ agenda.
What kind of priest behaves like this?
— ⁿᵉʷˢ MAGA Rudolf🇺🇲 (@rudolfhenryk5) October 9, 2025
Reverend David Black has built a reputation as a political agitator, often seen leading pro-abortion and Pride demonstrations. He’s now suing ICE after being hit in the face with pepper spray while attempting to block ICE vehicles outside a… pic.twitter.com/kjrcYTVDQX
As a result of all of this, Black has now done the most American-leftist of things. He’s suing. He’s part of a coalition that has filed a lawsuit against President Trump and several federal agencies for what they allege is a violation of their First Amendment rights. They say federal agents used “illegal force to suppress peaceful and constitutionally protected activities.”
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So, who is David Black?
It appears he’s a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 2020, almost fresh out of the seminary, he landed at The First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, which is located on the city’s South Side. In an article on his career, he described the church as "an incredible fit."
Nothing in that article mentions his propensity to get attention by locking arms with Antifa in defiance of law enforcement officers just trying to protect themselves, each other, and federal facilities.
