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Glendale Police have released street camera footage showing the exact moment evangelist Hans Schmidt was shot in the head preaching the gospel. Sadly, the video, in which Schmidt appears shot from behind, is too grainy to see where the gunfire came from and identify any perpetrators. Viewer discretion is advised. Schmidt, a 26-year-old former military combat medic who is married with two small children, was preaching the gospel in the public square when he was fired upon, causing great bodily injury. According to a GoFundMe released in his name, the bullet traveled through his brain and lodged on the right...

A court in London has ruled that a Christian street preacher who was fined and prosecuted by the police for evangelizing during lockdown did not break regulations or do anything illegal. The London Magistrates Court ruled that Joshua Sutcliffe, 31, is “not guilty” as he “was outside and that he had a reasonable excuse as he was traveling to his place of work, as a worship leader,” said Christian Legal Centre, which supported the preacher, in a statement released Friday. Sutcliffe was detained and surrounded by four police officers as he was preaching and handing out leaflets in North London’s...

A Christian street preacher arrested while preaching the Gospel has won his case against a police department that admitted liability in a lawsuit, agreeing to pay $4,500 (£3,250) in damages in addition to his legal costs for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and violating his human rights. A Liverpool County Court has awarded $4,500 plus legal costs to David McConnell, who was arrested by West Yorkshire Police in December 2019 for “a hate-related public order offense” and “for preaching on gay rights and abortion,” The Christian Institute, which supported his case, said in a statement. McConnell was preaching the Gospel when...

Video from Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone shows Antifa thugs chokeholding an innocent man These two video show the kind of world that progressives and social justice warriors are trying to create.Go to this link, and then scroll to the top to watch the first video. Then scroll down a little to watch the second video:https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1271895685873295360

The U.S. was in talks for a deal with Julian Assange but then FBI Director James Comey ordered an end to negotiations after Assange offered to prove Russia was not involved in the DNC leak, as Ray McGovern explains. An explosive report by investigative journalist John Solomon on the opinion page of Monday's edition of The Hill sheds a bright light on how Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and then-FBI Director James Comey collaborated to prevent WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange from discussing "technical evidence ruling out certain parties [read Russia]" in the controversial leak of Democratic Party emails to WikiLeaks during...

British street preacher Andy Robertson says all he wants from his community in eastern England is the freedom to disagree. Police have threatened to arrest the U.K. preacher for allegedly making homophobic statements. Once a month Andy Robertson makes his way to this street corner in Gainsborough, England. He says he's been doing it for ten years as part of the Open Air Mission, a Christian organization that first began street preaching in England 146 years ago.

ATHENS, Tenn. — A charge against street preacher David Decker of obstruction of a highway and resisting arrest have been dismissed by McMinn County Criminal Court Judge Carroll Ross. What was said by the Circuit Court Clerk’s office to be only a status hearing was actually a hearing to dismiss the case and did not take place until nearly 5 p.m. Monday. Defense attorney Chuck Pope presented two motions to the judge, one to suppress the indictment due to an unconstitutional stop, and the other connected with the hearing. “Judge Ross chose to dismiss the indictment” because of his right...

Photos released in Smart case TV show seeks help in finding homeless man-- By Joe Bauman-- Deseret News staff writer "America's Most Wanted," the Fox network anti-crime program, has released photos and the name of a man the network says is sought for questioning concerning the Elizabeth Smart kidnapping. On Feb. 3, Elizabeth's parents, Ed and Lois Smart, released a police composite sketch of a transient called Emmanuel who had worked for them about a year ago. Police said they released the sketch because 9-year-old Mary Katherine Smart, who saw the abduction, said the man looks like the person she...

Argyle arrests street preacher Woman charged with trespassing after refusing to leave site 01/01/2003 By SCOTT FARWELL / The Dallas Morning News ARGYLE - A 56-year-old street preacher who had been living outside an abandoned bank building for four years was arrested Tuesday on a charge of criminal trespassing. Janet Savage, a former nurse in Florida, was known in Argyle for praying in the rain, reading her Bible by the halo of a streetlight and singing hymns that echoed off the building's crumbling walls. She had refused to leave her roadside shelter next to the bank because she said...