Rev. Raphael Warnock once arrested at US Capitol for praying The pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church and now US senator was once detained while peacefully protesting Trump budget cuts , detained, arrested , and even murdered for various seemingly innocuous activities, from birdwatching to running to owning an iPhone. But in 2017, Rev. Raphael Warnock, who was just elected to the U.S. Senate in Georgia in a hotly contested election that determined the balance of the governing body, was arrested for … praying. While Americans saw an out-of-control mob swarm the Capitol complex with little interference, resulting in one of the most horrific breaches of the House and Senate chambers since the 1800s, very few of the admitted participants were arrested.