In what has seemingly become a normal occurrence in the United Kingdom, a member of London’s Metropolitan Police force threatened to arrest Christian street preachers who were accused by a bystander of making “homophobic” comments.
The bizarre incident was captured on a nine-minute video in which the unnamed Christians protest their innocence.
The video shows five police officers threatening to arrest the evangelists who were preaching outside a west London shopping center after someone complained to them about alleged homophobic comments, according to The Daily Mail.
One of the officers explains, “If you’re preaching here, it also depends on what you say. You might be committing criminal offenses as well. If you’re making members of the public (feel) harassment, alarm or distress, it’s a criminal offense.”
British police are advising Christian preachers to leave or they will be arrested because they could “cause harassment, alarm and distress”, which is a “criminal offence”. What do you think? pic.twitter.com/WiB5RBSF84
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The street preacher who is videoing the exchange with the officers replies, “I’m aware of that. What we’re doing is preaching our religion. We’ve been preaching about the gospel and Jesus Christ and the Bible says in
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