Posted on 09/24/2020 6:01:20 PM PDT by marshmallow
Police in Moscow, Idaho, arrested three people Wednesday for violating social distancing rules as their church sang hymns and Bible psalms outdoors — an event held, in part, to protest the city mayor’s mask mandate, which runs to January 2021.
Officers arrested Gabriel Rench, Rachel Bohnet, and Sean Bohnet, according to Moscow Report, a local independent news outlet. A video uploaded to social media shows Bohnet, a local music teacher, and his wife telling officers they refused to comply with an inaudible order. Moscow Report says the apparent infraction is that they refused to show identification.
Footage of the couple’s arrest shows the church body singing the hymn “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow” as officers place them in handcuffs.
Rench is a co-host of CrossPolitic, a Christian political talk show, and a candidate for county commissioner. “You guys should not be doing this,” he told officers as they walked him to a squad car. “And doing this kind of crap for the mayor, this is embarrassing. You guys are stronger than this.”
Released that same day, Rench appeared on his talk show to discuss the arrest, playing extended footage of his conversation with officers. One of his companions is heard telling the officers “We backed you guys” at recent Black Lives Matter protests advocating to defund the police. “They didn’t send you [to enforce social distancing] with BLM to go do that when they said defund you guys. We backed you guys.”
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Tired of seeing these arrests while Linda Sarsour and company wreak havoc in Kentucky!!
Yeah, my support would end there too. F 'em. Take a stand or blow off.
Cops are doing a wonderful job of making every possible demographic dislike and distrust them.
A REAL “peaceful protest”!
Do not challenge the Pharisees.
“ Cops are doing a wonderful job of making every possible demographic dislike and distrust them.”
Yea, well we are all “civilians” to them.
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The police work for the government, not for you, there, champ.
I swear, police in this country are kabuki theater... just for a semblance of law and order.
Someone tell me why we should back the police?
People have escaped from Oregon and gone to Idaho looking for political freedom
This is complete bullshiit!
Antifa/BLM can do whatever they want and the rest of us are arrested for not wearing a fu(king mask that does no good?
I would be ashamed if I were the arresting officers!
The mayor of that burg is an arrogant liberal creep and I’m so glad I got the hell out of there when I retired. College town, could you guess?
They are government agents. They are not on our side.
I don’t have a legitimate answer.
Did not work in 1945-46 and not now in 2020.
Cops are doing a wonderful job of making every possible demographic dislike and distrust them.
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Yup. They, or their superiors, cower before BLM, allow Antifa to burn down businesses, but they get tough with Christians.
There is nothing in Idaho code requiring a person to have ID, if not driving.
This has been a very bizarre year.
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