An Alabama pastor who was helping a neighbor by watering her roses was confronted by police after another Karen neighbor reported a suspicious person. They demanded ID and that he respect their authority. He stood up for his rights and refused to be harassed. They arrested him for obstruction. Was he required to provide ID? What is reasonable suspicion? What to know….
Case law at the link: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2022/05/26/pastor-arrested-for-watering-neighbors-flowers/
Link: https://whnt.com/news/alabama-news/childersburg-pastor-arrested-after-watering-neighbors-plants/amp/
The day of weaponizing the police against black people is coming to an end eventually it's coming sooner than you think all this calling the cops on people when you call the police 🚨🚓 you call a gun to the scene and that's about to come to an end in this country eventually Babylon will fall.
Who cares about this nonsense, what religious cult was that.
When you say "No crime was actually committed" it makes my skin crawl. Why? Because breaking the law is the definition of a crime, and the cops are breaking the highest law of the land!
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Its sill-a-ca-ga
The man is black, watering the flowers that he want to steal next day… so everything is fine.
NOT!!! I saw the video… this was clearly rasist behaviour.
The cops are the aggressors they escalate the situations so that they can arrest or kill innocent people.
How tf is watering flowers a suspicious activity 😳🧐
He called the officer a boy the 🤎 male has been called "boy" from the ⚪ male for decades. Tables turn and the officer feelings hurt the 🤯
Damn no one is safe. A person gets the police called on them from doing a good deed like watering a neighbors flowers
Police are taught to criminalize mundane activities.
My question as a white guy is why they haven't fired every one of these crooked cops that are bald face Liars that Pastor Jennings did not identify himself not only did he not only identify himself even told them where he lived Shame Shame Shame on crooked cops
It can't be all black guys are suspicious.😅 You just blew half the cases in court out of the water.
Cops are the guys that got C & D grades and were actually trying 😅. Think about that next time that cop has a comprehension problem. He is trying his best and just can't understand because he is redlinin.
Watering flowers while black. That is a new one.
Qualified immunity will come into play here,, they will not be held accountable.. Qualified Immunity needs to be removed
John pastor Jennings is also a former police officer
is this the story you were talking about ?
https://youtu.be/S2HEpfdXmYY
In so many of these cases, the only crimes are committed by the police.
These cops have a lot of lead way to say what's suspicious
Being a "pastor" should be suspicious in itself. Religion is very corrupt. Look at the Catholic Church and pedophilia. Did you ever read The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer?
Normally, I absolutely agree with you, BUT jumping to the conclusion that the neighbor was "apparently a Karen" is just plain wrong on your part. This time you did as many of the misinformed cops do on your channel and jump to a false conclusion despite the facts! The neighbor was looking out for her neighbor just as the pastor was and even admitted that it was her fault (unlike most Karens)! The pastor said the same thing himself and commended her for doing so, citing that she did nothing wrong. He wasn't even mad about the police coming out, as this was their duty to do so. What he was mad about, as we all are, is how the police conducted themselves after they arrived! You owe this "Karen" an apology!
Charges dropped and he has filed a federal lawsuit
I've seen the body cam video from this incident before. The cops were acting like complete morons, he gave them his name, pointed at his home across the street, was doing nothing but watering the flowers, hell… one of the cops even told him he could keep watering the flowers as they talked! Like often happens, even after identifying himself, the cop started in on that "I need to see your I.D.!" BS and that is what lead to the arrest. Total violation of that man's rights. Even the lady that called tried to get them to leave him alone, and they ignored her.
In the cops defense the pastor could have been spraying radioactive waste or toxic materials in order to render the property uninhabitable for the next 1000 years.
Please stop using racist derogatory words like “Karen”. A word used in a derogatory manner against white women whom one does not agree with.
HAVE A NICE TIME IN HELL COPS
Childersburg and Harpersville used to run a debtors prison until they got smacked down by the Circuit Court and district court. Look it up. It’ll make you sick.
Sill – uh – cogga. It's a southern thing, normal pronunciations don't apply down here. We have a town named "Arab", which any casually literate person would pronounce, well, as in like referring to a denizen of the Middle East. But no, it's pronounced with a long "a", then like the "rabb" in rabbit. We here southern folk got our own dang language rules, y'all. Ifn y'all don't cotton to it, jez stay over yonder.
always remember to ask citizen extermination agents the really important questions,,,,NAME BADGE, NUMBER, AND BODY COUNT.
When officers become the morality police we’re in trouble because of typical holier than thou beliefs.
Ya can't fix stupidity but you can clean out the bank accounts
No. He was arrested for refusing to provide identification in the context of the police responding to a report of a suspicious person. Watch the police body cam. Nothing about you video is true.
for those of you that haven't seen the video, the man is a man of color! one of the biggest crimes in Amerikkka!!!!!!!
It's pronounced, "Sill-ah-COG-gah".
Agreed, the pastor clearly identified himself. If the cop had only listened and went to his home to confirm with his wife, this could have been cleared up.