It took less than sixty seconds of standing on a sidewalk for Damon Atkins to be placed in handcuffs and arrested for quoting a portion of a Bible verse.
On Saturday morning dozens of people were gathered outside the Reading City Hall on Washington Street to participate in the city’s first ever “Pride March and Rally” endorsed by Mayor Eddie Moran. At approximately 10:05 a.m. Atkins arrived at a public sidewalk across the street from City Hall.
In less than a minute he found himself in handcuffs.
The entire incident was captured on film by Matthew Wear of Reading, Pennsylvania, who told The Lancaster Patriot that he had been preaching prior to Atkins’ arrival and was told to stop by the same police officer who later handcuffed Atkins.
Wear said he preached for about twelve minutes and then began filming the event from across the street.
Wear posted the video to YouTube, where it has garnered nearly 2,000 views in two days.
The video begins with Wear narrating and explaining that he preached until “a cop got in my face, laid hands on me, and threatened to arrest me if I didn’t stop.”
“They got drag queens, they got children here,” Wear said in the video. “They’re about to do a flag raising ceremony in this Satan cesspit.”
About a minute into the video, Atkins can be seen at a distance heading toward the event.
“It looks like some more men just showed up to support us,” Wear says at the 1:48 point in the video. “This cop’s going to give them a hard time.”
The video shows Police Sergeant Bradley T. McClure approaching Atkins, and the two interact for approximately 25 seconds.
Atkins can be heard saying “This is public property.”
McClure can be heard saying “let them have their event” and “respect them.”
In the video, Atkins tells McClure that he is respecting the people in attendance and said, “You know who’s cheering for us – the people that are in hell.”
Atkins later told The Lancaster Patriot that he was referring to the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus in the Gospel of Luke, wherein a rich man in torment begs Father Abraham to send someone to warn his brothers about the place of torment.
Wear’s video then focuses on McClure as he walks away from Atkins. Atkins can then be heard saying, “God is not the,” and McClure immediately reapproaches Atkins and handcuffs him.
Atkins told The Lancaster Patriot that he was going to quote a portion of 1 Corinthians 14:33 – “God is not the author of confusion” – but did not finish the quote because he stopped when he was handcuffed by McClure.
According to an affidavit of probable cause, McClure claims that “[Atkins] was carrying a sign with a slogan written on it that showed his opposition to the event.”
The video footage shows Atkins holding a sign that read “JESUS SAID GO AND SIN NO MORE.”
In the affidavit, McClure also claims that Atkins “began to yell to the people” attending the pride event.
“I immediately approached him and told him that, while he was free to stand on that side of the street and hold his sign,” McClure wrote in the affidavit, “he could not cross the street nor yell comments intended to disrupt the event.”
McClure added that Atkins “said he understood.” But the video does not show Atkins agreeing to remain silent and Atkins told The Lancaster Patriot that he never agreed to McClure’s instructions.
The affidavit continues with McClure claiming that in less than a minute Atkins “resumed yelling derogatory comments to the people at the event.”
The video records the only words from Atkins as “God is not the” immediately prior to McClure arresting him.
A court document provided to The Lancaster Patriot shows that Atkins was charged with “Disorderly Conduct Engage in Fighting.”
A criminal complaint from the Reading Police Department provided to The Lancaster Patriot explains that a violation of the Disorderly Conduct statute entails “the intent to cause substantial public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or tumultuous behavior” and that Atkins “despite being warned by police just moments prior, yelled derogatory comments at an organization that was holding a permitted event.”
As Atkins is being handcuffed in the video, the crowd at the pride event can be heard cheering his arrest.
Atkins agreed to meet with The Lancaster Patriot to explain that the reason he went to the event that day was because Jesus Christ changed him, and he wanted to tell others.
“The main reason I was there was because of love,” he said. “Because Jesus has taught me to love my neighbor as myself.”
He attended another pride event earlier in the week and said a man told him that “if I had a gun, I would shoot you in the head.”
Atkins said the message of repentance is viewed as hateful simply because it does not encourage the sinful behavior that is being celebrated by the culture.
“What is love? Is that love that your pastor tells you that you can be a homosexual and enter the kingdom of God?” he said. “That’s not love.”
Atkins told The Lancaster Patriot that he was cited as making “derogatory” comments but was simply quoting from the Bible.
“Now in this country, ‘God’ is a derogatory term,” Atkins told The Lancaster Patriot. “That makes me sick to my stomach.”
Atkins’ court date is scheduled for June 16, and he said he is hoping Alliance Defending Freedom will represent him.
Atkins said he is discouraged by the pride celebrations in Reading and the actions of the police officer but will continue to warn people about the dangers of sin.
“It’s all going to be sorted out in the end,” Atkins said.
[Editor’s Note: On June 7, the Berks County District Attorney’s Office announced that all charges against Atkins have been dropped.]
Damon and Matt are to be commended. I hope the ACLJ or other Christian law group may take up this case.
The only criminal action was committed by the police officer
You are absolutely right. I hope Mr. Atkins sues the city for violation of his civil rights. Don’t let these people off the hook. Freedom of speech is #1 for a reason and the officer’s tyrannical behavior should be called out and in my opinion, he should be suspended for the violation of Mr. Atkins right to speak freely. He wasn’t confrontational in any way. Disgusting. I will be making a complaint to Reading police in support of a brave man calling out these displays for what they are. Deviant.
Officer Bradley T. McClure—who initiated arresting Christian Brother Damon Atkins—needs to be FIRED, not suspended, and also needs to be prosecuted for perjury (he blatantly lied multiple times under oath in his affidavit to the magistrate and court in order to try to substantiate his wrongful arrest). Moreover, he also needs to be charged and prosecuted for abduction, assault, and battery. Lastly, he needs to be sued for false arrest, assault, battery, wrongful imprisonment, free speech violations, and religious exercise violations. I will also be trying to make a complaint to the Reading Police Department about Officer McClure illegally doing these things.
Right On !!!!!!!
the officer McClure needs to be charged with civil rights violations under color of authority that’s the same charge the three police officers in the Rodney King got two years for he should be charged
Exactly! Fire that police officer immediately for distorting the truth of the events to accommodate the woke agenda. Mr. Atkins was conducting himself in a peaceful manner and was disturbing or causing harm to anyone. I hope the arresting officer is removed from his position and never allowed to work in the capacity of a law enforcement agent in the future for his ability to easily lie and try to pull a power trip on someone that disagrees with his views and opinions. His overstepped his authority. After a day in court, I pray we have a sane and God-fearing judge who can watch this video and then read the police report to clearly see what a liar this cop is and reprimand him appropriately.
Don’t fire him. Find a prosecutor to enforce Title 18 Section 242.
Agreed. That officer deserves a little pulp fiction treatment.
Police officer is commiting the crime its an injustice arrest. God bless America where you cannot pronounce the name of God without being arrested
A HUGE $$ lawsuit against Reading will put a stop to this nonsense.
The cop is a criminal.
God bless Atkins!
Shameful police work. What was this man’s crime?
Reading is so full of crime and yet they arrest this man needlessly 😂 classic statism
On first read, I saw “classic satanism” … which it is
So it’s a crime to preach the Word of God, but not a crime to threaten to shoot someone for preaching? We live in a clown world. I’ll be praying for both followers of Christ to continue to stand strong in the face of moral corruption and tyranny.
I think someone ought to inform the police that it is not a crime to quote from the main text of the ‘official’ state church, the Christian Church, (whether anyone is a member or not), which the King himself has recently sworn, in public, to uphold. It is also not a crime to state your opinion, or is it now?
We don’t have an official state church or a king.
This is in the United States though. It’s Reading, Pennsylvania. If anything, the King of the Commonwealth declaring fealty to Jesus would make them more zealous in silencing His followers.
King of the Commonwealth?
America doesn’t have a state church, official or otherwise.
This is not police work. This is why people have lost faith in government. If this was a black man, there would be buildings burning. Sgt and those worthless officers standing by should be fired and charged. That is technically kidnapping, among other things
Cops serve the masters of their pensions. Not their oaths to the constitution.
Go fund me page should be started for this man to start his own church to spread his word amen d money and his voice should be heard on national tv
If Mr. Atkins starts a GiveSendGo or GoFundMe, The Lancaster Patriot will report on it. Until then, be wary of imposter accounts, as I have already seen one.
It better be at GiveSendGo. GoFundMe will shut any conservative fund down. Not only did they shut down the Canadian Truckers, they tried to award its donations to other funds of their choice. I will never give to a GoFundMe fund again, no matter how good the cause,
how true
This is what you get with an antichrist governor.
Ilma,
This Reading , Pennsylvania, not Reading , England. In the United States we do not have a state church, and no King sworn to uphold values ( our loss, I wish we did).
The first amendment protects your right to peacefully assemble. You right to freedom of speech. Your freedom of religion. The freedom of the press.
This idiot cop trampled on the constitution. Deserves every lawsuit coming to him, the Reading police department, and the city of reading for employing a moron.
The man did nothing violent and was in with in his rights to preach in public. The fact that people cheered a man’s right being blatantly violated by the police speaks volumes about the kind of people they are.
The Americans who fought for such things were defeated by the United States.
“The Americans who fought for such things were defeated by the United States.”
What?
He’s referring to the Revolutionary War. It seems very clear.
Derogatory words is nowhere in the criminal code. The charges are a “ham sammich”, this is malicious retaliation. Hope he studies 42 USC 1983
I dont. My people fought the king twice and won freedom from British tyrany through blood. This Sgt will learn the price of tyranny as well.
“It is here that we see the dawn of hope: for no matter how formidably Communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Good quotation. I am not very well read on Solzhenitsyn, but this quote is (a) directly appropriate to the free speech mess in Reading the other day and (b) inspiring to me to read up Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. : )
Pennsylvania, another armpit of the nation
Sue them into oblivion, this is a clear 1st amendment violation. No law overrules the constitution, he can protest/yell as much as he wants, and “derogatory” comments, which I guarantee is a lie, is protected speech. This is a slam dunk case, he needs to fight it because he will absolutely win
No, it was a peaceful event with a permit. Those protesting lost when the locally elected officials approved of the LGBTQ flag raising ceremony. The losers decided to attend and disrupt the gathering anyway with what is known as a hecklers veto.
Agreed.
Doesn’t matter if they had a permit for their event. The government cannot shut down free speech on public sidewalks or streets in order to appease a group or to prevent them from being criticized by people on such sidewalks and streets. The Christian man had a right to travel upon such sidewalks and streets, and a right to yell whatever he wanted while on such. Imagine a society and world where people on public property could be arrested for yelling. A woman could be arrested for yelling “Help, he’s trying to rape me!” If a woman yelled such, it would no less “disturb” their event than the Christian man yelling “God is not the author of confusion.” In both cases, the event would be “disturbed,” yet in both cases it would be and is lawful for a woman to yell such and lawful for a Christian to yell such. The government cannot determine what you can and cannot yell. When it does, it is selecting approved speech and disapproved speech, and such violates the First Amendment. The officers need to be fired, sued, and to pay a huge financial penalty to this Christian man for the very illegal and unconstitutional actions they knowingly took against him and then for lying in an affidavit to try to substantiate their illegal decision to arrest him.
Well said
Your lack of knowledge about anything constitutional is enlightening. In other words, you don’t know what you are talking about!
Bradley McClure is not fit to be a police officer.
The police officer is the one out of line, not the guy sitting on the side lines hold a sign.
I hope the officer gets what he deserves and then some.
What happen to FREE SPEECH in this country. We need to take our country back!
So others can destroy police cars, government courthouses, loot and pillage, riot (peacefully of course), threaten Supreme Court justices at their homes, and assault those they don’t agree with and it’s all ok, just don’t mention God or quote scripture because that’s violence that’ll get you arrested.
Suebthe hell out if the police officers… the department and the city… take their pensions… and.make.it as public as possible
Is there a GiveSendGo to crowdfund a legal fund?
There is not yet. We are talking with Mr. Atkins and if/when there is an official one, we will report on it so you know which one it is. Please stay tuned for updates.
Ditto. I would SO contribute to his defense. What that officer did was pretty much textbook anti-First Amendment. Should the statute be upheld I hope it gets overturned on appeal. I do believe both other officers need to be named in the suit for abuse of office charges.
Anything less than the arresting officer losing his pension and being immediately fired is a gross miscarriage of justice. How can anyone take this department seriously. This is gross and disgusting and disgraceful.
If this is what police are now. Maybe we should defund them.
Attempting to destroy the career of a cop merely doing their job at an event with a legal permit is reprehensible. This matter will, no doubt, end up being dismissed because the “gentleman” in question either on June 16, or there about, anyway. Fortunately, no one was injured. No harm; no foul.
The officer has to be dumber than dirt if this is what we get out of the police training and he wasn’t even performing his job correctly. Any officer should understand the most basic of rights or they don’t deserve the badge in the first place. A 4th grader could have innately understood that cops have no right to stop someone from preaching in public. He wasn’t doing his job. He was usurping authority in a manner that is in violation of the constitution. There is more than one kind of violence. Injury to your body is one, but illegal arrest is another. Violence that crushes free speech is still lawsuit worthy. I don’t know why people think like you Cody, I assume you are a ghost account for the idiot cop who did this.
I would suggest that the officer in question destroyed his career all on his own.
IMHO, your attempt to villfy and cast guilt towards those who believe the officer should be fired, lacks proper reasoning at best.
Would you have the same stance if a bus driver got into an accident most likely caused by the fact they were legally intoxicated at the time? They were “just trying to do their job” just as you correctly state the officer was doing…….. IMHO, the 1for1 similarities should be obvious in both the fictional and real life situations.
Both were violating written law, but more importantly, they both also violated their moral/ethical duty to their job and the public by knowingly doing so.
And in both cases again, the principles destroyed their own careers, needing no help from observers.
There has already been at least one case for almost the same thing decided at the appellate level in favor of the defendant. My recollection being a Christian Evangelist named Michael Marcavage, of Repent America, who protested with a bullhorn a speech being given by then Gov. Ed Rendell, in a public place. Convicted in that case, and then overturned on appeal, that he had the same public-space First Amendment right as even a Governor, in this case Mr. Atkins wasn’t using a bullhorn, and most likely had no legal obligation to remain on the other side of the street, despite cooperatively doing so at the police officer’s direction. There is absolutely no excuse for this police officer’s ignorance of the law, no excuse that the officer’s superiors did not immediately order him to drop the charge, and absolutely no excuse, indeed, incompetence, that officers were assigned to a controversial street event without the training as to what is legally permissible protest. I truly feel for Mr. Atkins. While I hope that the law will amply compensate him for this egregious abuse, one does not have to experience being arrested and placed in handcuffs and a cell to appreciate how upsetting this must be for him. I hope and pray that God fills his heart with faithful joy.
There have been countless cases where what McClure did was ruled unconstitutional. It’s time that laws are passed that hold police officers accountable for trampling the rights of law-abiding citizens. Wasting time like this is unnecessary. LEO’s feel empowered to harass Christians because they don’t fight back. If it was a bunch of BLM protesters, Gay Pride protestors or Antifa protesters they leave them alone out of fear of being harmed physically.
There are laws that already exist. Title 18 Section 242, Color of Law.
Our church is suing Reading PA right now for doing the same thing to me in Jan 2023 in front of the High School. We will win and then others will have more freedom to preach in Reading PA.
Pastor Aden Rusfeldt
When every month seems like Pride month, the actual Pride month doesn’t seem so important. The irony being, this cop would lose his job if the decision were up to the Alphabet gang. I’m a bisexual woman, and even I can clearly see the agenda here. How blind can you be? The people are pissed.
I was wondering if the Reading Police Department is aware of the First Amendment to the US Constitution? It allows for freedom of religion, the press, speech, assembly and petition. Damon Atkins was exercising his rights on the streets of your city and was arrested for his assembly, use of speech and religion. How could the exercise of these rights be interpreted as disorderly conduct? Should the law not be equally applied to all citizens of Reading? Would he have been arrested if quoting the Quran?
The conduct of Sgt. McClure is not only abhorrent to the principles of the First Amendment, they are unbecoming a officer of the law.. I am a true believer in the rule of law and support the police whole-heartedly which is why this situation warranted this email.. Sgt. McClure should be reprimanded by the Chief publicly for this act and I am sure you will be hearing from Mr. Atkin’s attorney shortly.
Whether you are supportive or not of pride parades, I would like to point out that while Sgt. McClure told Mr. Atkins to let them “have their day”, they actually have a whole month. 79 years ago today the landing at Normandy took place with 4,144 US soldiers killed. Memorial Day is only one day long. They died so pride flags could wave.
And they also died so that gay pride marchers could clap when Mr. Atkins was arrested and put in handcuffs.
If true liberty is a fruit of a faith in Jesus, then bondage is a fruit of sin.
This is how they do it. The police were wrong and they know it. But it is easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to be fair and just. They just wanted to defuse the situation and the easiest way was to arrest and drag away the harmless Christian than to risk the dangerous people across the street becoming violent.
Seen it happen before… the innocent and harmless are arrested because it is just easier to do that than risk the ire of the mean and ugly.
This quite clearly legally clarifies organized homosexual-themed events as being State-sponsored, and protected from most forms of criticism. The precedent this sets is, frankly, blood-chilling.
RIP America. God will not be mocked, get right with Jesus while you can.
This POS POLICE OFFICER SHOULD BE FIRED. THIS IS WHY WE HATE COPS.
Sue the police officers, police department and the city of Reading. That’s the only thing that will stop this from happening again and again.
This man needs to lawyer up and sue the city into oblivion.
We will donate to a give send go, if one is established. This is absolutely appalling. Our hearts also break for what is happening in Lititz.
Me too!
Clear and gross violation of 1st ammendment rights. I hope this cop is charged and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. He is a sergeant and should know better! We need accountability!
Seems like the other comments have covered the legal angles more than adequately so I’ll just make a personal observation that officer McClure should take up some sort of physical activity. All the riding around, sitting for long hours is taking its toll on his girlish figure.
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Bradley McClure and other LEO’s are going to regret the day they put law-abiding citizens in jail. Anyone who watches the video knows there was no disorderly conduct. McClure violated this man’s First Amendment rights and in the process stomped all over the U.S. Constitution. How does the left get away with labeling those on the right as fascists, homophobes, racists and misogynists? I always see it form LEO’s and those on the left.
He should check with a lawyer as to first amendment issue and the arrest under the Disorderly Conduct “Derogatory” words charge. It appears that it was a false arrest under a false charge. That’s a big complaint against a law enforcement officer and agency.
The cop needs to be protested at home Wish I was within 100 miles and I would help. I’m not talking about mass hysteria but a public protest of this officer by Christians or others who agree with the first amendment.
The Constitution protects. Atkins. He has the right to say whatever words he wishes. The police do not get dictate words someone can say. Fire the policeman now and sue the department!
Very good article, old tactic. We were fighting for this kind of testifying 30 years ago in front of abortion mills, which friends of mine did, alongside other people taking the conscious risk of arrest for trespassing (me and many others). This Sgt. McClure actually did a decent job — didn’t rough anybody up, which you sometimes get. Notice that he slow walked the individual around the corner and tried to help him get his knapsack off without cutting it off and ruining the knapsack. Decent. My guess is that Sgt. McClure had orders from the mayor to lock up anybody after the first warning, and that was because the mayor was clueless about the First Amendment, and so was the sergeant. For that reason, the ACLJ or other outfit will quickly learn the mayor up on what is legal and free vs. what is arrestable misdemeanoring. Then Sgt. McClure will find himself in a mess of the mayor’s making. That is a familiar situation, too. The police mainly go one of two ways in a case like this: (1) jerkoff or (2) efficient, firm but not unkind. Occasionally you have a cop who acts with compassion.
If the roles were reversed and there was a religious group or a political group and say Antifa types or BLM showed up, does anyone believe those antagonists would be arrested…..NO. If you are the right persuasion, you get to do whatever you want.
Don’t miss Reading.
One has to wonder what is really going on here. Everyone is fed up with this agenda being shoved down our throats and when someone says anything they get persecuted, literally. Nowhere is safe in this country anymore. Until “we the people” stand together and put an end to it, nothing will change and it will only get worse.
THREE police officers for this one Christian doing absolutely NOTHING wrong? at no point did the man resist yet three police officers are shown in the video, one is seen doing an illegal search of his backpack! Then the lies in the affidavit that are CLEARLY dispelled by the video evidence. This police officer has committed perjury, filing false statements on a government form. Not to mention all the other infringements of a citizens rights the police officer stomp all over. The police officer needs to be dismissed and prosecuted for perjury. Please make this as PUBLIC as possible and demand a public hearing for the charges.
That POS Bradley T McClure needs to be fired! Not only did he do an illegal arrest and his Affidavit is SO WRONG he also threw this innocents man property as if was trash instead of placing it down with courtesy. FIRE that POS!
Im not even a lawyer and I could win a case.
The READING GESTAPO…DISGRACEFUL Po.ice department, calling themselves Americans when they are more like AmeriCOMS.
I am dying to get my wallet out and donate to a GiveSendGo for his legal fund! It would be my honor to fund lawyers who can fight this evil tyranny. Reading Police Department MUST be sued for this! I am itching to go! LET ME GIVE YOU MY MONEY!
If Damon approves an official GiveSendGo account, The Lancaster Patriot will report on it. Until then, be wary of any imposter accounts, as I saw one out there already.
Call the Christian Legal Association.
or Jay Sekulow’s the ACLJ.
Any decent lawyer is gonna be popping champagne getting this clear 1A violation case pretty open and shut case
Trouble is much as hell make mint in court, dirty cops are then gonna harass him till he moves away
Sgt Bradley Mclure is a charicature of a real law officer. He’s a dereliction of duty officer, color of law enforcement official.
When he throws away the Constitution and makes up this crap, he’s on his own, we don’t owe him a defense.
The Supreme Court ruled that the freedom to speak includes a freedom to be heard, this officer missed at least half of the law.
The actual charge against Damon Atkins is perverse and untrue.
This “police officer” needs to be fired! This man had every right to do what he was doing! Of course the officers two lesbian fellow officers probably were offended by hearing the Bible quoted in front of them! These people are in league with Satan and that is why they HATE God’s word. OK Christian preachers and pastors it is time for you to pick which side you are on, God’s or Satan’s! You turn you face away from him and he will do the same to you on judgement day! It is time we Christians stand up for God! Time to clean our country and throw out the TRASH!
If this is the future tyranny in this country which will continue to bring upon us and this land Gods Judgments then do not stand up to this! We need to make sure these rules because they are not laws according to the constitution are forever abolished
the police batfaggot needs to have his bond arrested then arrested for kidnaping do you researchthey are corporate thugs and should be ashamed of themselves
Typical childish, attention-seeking remarks from those who were never taught, nor understand the concept of respecting others–including those in an authoritative position that are charged to maintain the peace at a properly permitted event.
You should be ashamed of yourself, sir❗❗
I’m guessing you might be the boyfriend or son of that cop McClure. You keep attempting to defend someone who clearly violated the 1st amendment rights of a U.S. citizent. This country doesn’t support communists. And we don’t like these propaganda organizations that use Maoist, Marxist, and fascist tactics. LGBTQi is a fake organization that goes not even represent the majority of homosexuals. They are simply a propaganda tool. Wake up. Get off corporate/globalist media. Look to God. And please read the U.S.Constitution.
Fire that officer
The part of the affidavit where asshat Mcclure says “i told them they could not be disruptive” is against the law. He does not have the authority to tell anyone they cannot be disruptive. The people protesting have the exact same rights as the queers throwing the sexual deviance event. I hope Damon Atkins sues the budget right out of the town of Reading. And I hope “SGT.” Ass-hat McClure is working at Circle K soon and getting robbed at gunpoint.
This is the type of officers that represents your city? When I vote against refunding the police, there’s always some moron that wants to come out and prove me wrong. Get rid of this self loathing power hungary COP that got picked on in school, who now has a power trip over people yelling a Bible verse. I can yell FK u in ur face a thousand times, unless I commit a crime…you’re now gonna make one up anyway to arrest me, huh. What a joke!
Same thing going on in Lititz? Anybody protesting it?
Yes. https://www.irbc.church/godislove/
Similar things happening in Lititz? Anybody protesting it?
Yes. https://www.irbc.church/godislove/
Start calling the police dept and demanding the badge of these officers, back the blue my ass
This is shameful! God created all things, and gave us His words to live by. This man did nothing wrong! This officer, and his fellow officers, who helped BREAK THE LAW, should be fired. And God will bring His own justice to them. Officer Bradley McClure’s badge number is 668, it should read “666” I barely recognize this country anymore. Our Forefathers are turning in their Graves, along with all the men and women who fought and died for our freedoms and rights. Shame on this officer, and his little helpers!
June 16th is the Feast of The Sacred Heart of Jesus, love itself.
If it was crazy homeless person screaming whatever on the street, nothing would be done. But just utter anything with Jesus or God and damned you are by police that obviously lie on reports. Thank God for people recording the true event.
Why must people that should know better resort to hypothetical situations to make some weak point❓❓ The supposed yelling ❝gentleman❞ was in the wrong and will have a few more days to reflect on his actions, since the court appearance isn’t until the 16th of June.
Preaching God’s word has become a terrorist act.
I feel sorry for this brave man. We live in a world where evil is good and righteousness is bad. I pray for this good man and others like him that stand for the love of our Saviors, Jesus Christ. I wish our country would see and understand what’s happening here. Our rights are being taken away but nothing is being done about it!
When is heterosexual month? And where will the heterosexual demonstrations be? Because what I just saw on video is what they do in communist countries. People better wake up quickly because I don’t see things getting any better.
All 3 officers need to be arrested and fired.
Americans are fed up and tired of these perverts trying to slam their corrupt agenda and beliefs down our throats. Just because the pervert FJB in the Whitehouse has catered to your despicable lifestyle and corrupt, perverted behaviour; doesn’t mean that you HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED in the minds and hearts of the American people. You are perverts and sodomites, living totally contrary to God’s Word, which endures forever. You are destined for the pit of hell unless you change.
The arresting officer committed a felony. Don’t believe me. Read the law for yourself.
Section 242 of Title 18 makes it a crime for a person acting under color of any law to willfully deprive a person of a right or privilege protected by the Constitution or laws of the United State.
https://www.justice.gov/crt/deprivation-rights-under-color-law
Will be looking into this. Thank you.
As a Pennsylvania, this story offends and embarrasses. Often, I will proudly state something like, “… the Constitution of the USA is a good starting point, but Pennsylvania’ constitution enshrines greater protections for our God given rights.” Or, “Pennsylvania has an excellent constitution with a long tradition of public support and judicial defense. Not so much today.
Reading would be well advised to settle this matter directly after receiving a demand for damages. It can only get a lot worse from the $50k-75k they will pay then. Suspend that Sargent for a month and knock him down to corporal thereafter sending him to civil rights in Pennsylvania and the USA training.
Sick and tired of the kneejerk respect the police b/s. They gotta give respect to get it. Moreover, when was the last time you ever saw a parade for a roofer that died from a fall? The Answer: never happens. However, roofers, truckers and otherwise employed men (it is significantly more men) die every single day in workplace accidents. Thinking of it. Didn’t Reading just have 6-8 men die in a candy factory accident. Was there a parade in Reading for those men. (I do recall reading only Hispanic male names.) The police, every bureaucrat, and every government employee whatsoever gets enough respect and thanks for working/service. It is called good steady pay and a too generous benefit package.
The Sargent ought to stripped of his stripes and reduced to a desk job then required to enroll in a Constitution class. I also hope the ADF takes the Christian’s case. Reading should also be prepared to cough up tax dollars from a first amendment lawsuit as well. The city will lose if it challenges the lawsuit.
All you so called Christians, are acting like heathens yourselves. How is it ok to threaten this man for doing his job? How is it ok for you to attain his personal phone number and make threats to physical harm him and his family? You are not God fearing Christians, you are disgusting and you shall be judged.
Christians are anti free speech until they need it themselves.
Hey Eric, It’s not his job to shut down free speech of a minority of people across the street while LGBTQ+ people shout from bullhorns and loudspeakers their depraved cult viewpoints. The man has every right to hold a sign that says “Jesus said Go and Sin No More” and to yell across the street. There is also something called the Constitution which the officer swears to uphold! Also would you have been so upset at the media when they doxed Kyle Rittenhouse? Something tells me you wouldn’t!
Were those police officers aware of civil rights and the law of the land? Their attempt to claim this was a civil disorder is a complete lie. When those same people who support Pride events and burning cities down in the name of BLM are out committing actual violence and threats to other people, those police officers sit idly by and watch it. Every single one of those officers needs to be fired. This country cannot afford to slip into tyranny
“But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors. This will be your opportunity to serve as witnesses.”
~Luke 21:12-13
Look at what happened in Rome GA.
https://georgiara.com/2023/06/24/pro-family-activists-arrested-for-peacefully-protesting-rome-transqueer-pride-parade/#comments
This excuse by McClure is hilarious that “you cannot yell or disrupt the event” I have Pride events where they play loud music and yell through bullhorns disturbing the entire neighborhood and businesses but a single person is holding a sign and verbally reading the Bible is disturbing the event! This Jack Booted Thuggery has to stop and now! Every Christian who hears or reads this should go home break out the Good Book and tend to your flock!
Get ready for much more of this. Remember, the police are following orders. He may or may not be against sodomy.
Most of these arrests and violations are happening in woke cities. The Gospel of salvation must continue to be preached no matter what man says.
We will lose this war here on earth but not the battle.
It’s only going to get more sick and perverted because of deception but the Church must endure and overcome. Jesus is Lord of this country period!
I could not agree with you all anymore. At least two civil rights were violated. Freedom of speech and the Freedom of Religion. If the police are allowed to get away with these blatant abuses of authority, they and others will continue to do it.