Posted on 08/15/2015 7:22:49 PM PDT by markomalley
Christians preaching the Gospel outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Portland, Oregon, on Wednesday were doused with scouring powder by a man who apparently had police protection since a police officer on duty just stood by and did not stop, much less arrest him.
The Portland Police Department later said it would not press charges against the assailant as the incident was deemed "a private criminal complaint."
The preachers were taking part in activities at the Biblical Church Evangelism Conference hosted by Beaverton Grace Bible Church, according to Christian News Network.
About 20 Christian preachers were on the public sidewalk preaching and holding signs when a man who allegedly brought a woman to the facility started yelling at them and dousing them with scouring powder.
"Somewhere he got hold of a very large canister of Comet and then he came around the building and went to one of our ladies and pronounced her 'scum' and doused her with this can of Comet head to toe," Pastor Chuck O'Neal said.
O'Neal tried to talk to the man but he was likewise doused with the powder.
"I approached the man, and he proceeded to douse me with the Comet as well, getting it in my eyes and on my clothes. I was warning him that this was assault ... and calling upon him to stop and to repent and turn to Christ," he said.
Former Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Tony Miano called a police officer, Gene Gillock, who was nearby, to arrest the man but failed to do so.
"As I'm shouting to him, 'We want this man arrested,' he's telling us to stay back and not to disrupt what he's doing, while he's letting the assailant [be] who just assaulted six Christians with a white powder. He's treating the guy who assaulted six of our friends as if they had been doing something wrong," Miano said.
The former deputy sheriff accused the police officer of not even checking the condition of the victims.
"There were several people doused in this caustic cleanser, people complaining about their eyes burning, and he didn't stop to see if anyone needed aid. He did nothing to check on the condition of the victims, but he did everything to accommodate the man who viciously, angrily assaulted six Christians peacefully exercising their right to free speech and exercising their deeply held religious beliefs," he said.
They called 911 instead to ask for the police to return and take statements.
Miano accused the police officer of improper conduct.
"If he was thinking as a civil servant, if he was thinking as one who is charged with protecting life and property, he would have secured that suspect so that he couldn't hurt anyone else, and then he would have checked on the condition of those who had been assaulted, and then he would have conducted a thorough investigation," he said.
I would have put a bullet in his a$$...
What’s a “private criminal complaint”?
Hadn’t heard of that under the US system of law.
Knowing oregon police, that officer was probably there to get rid of his child, so he did nothing.
Portland went through the looking glass a long time ago.
For sake of discussion — IS there an energetically Christian way to answer something like this?
Seems to me the Spirit could have seized upon the metaphor of cleansing and really told off the assailants in a way that would convict their consciences. Now whether they accept the conviction is another question, but to do it is something that validly happens through Christians.
Yes it would involve overlooking the immediate crime and immediate harm. But it could bring more eternal issues into view. God isn’t praised, at least by most Christians, because He immediately delivered them to an inescapable hell with no second chance when they first sinned.
But again a forum like FR may not be fitted for such discussion. It can’t rise to this level. It can’t ponder what was going through the mind of, say, a Stephen the Martyr.
#Boycott Portland
Can you say that in a way a non redneck can understand? I do not mean to be sarcastic, but you make no sense.
A private wrong is a tort or civil offense. A public wrong is the definition of a criminal complaint. The spokesman who issued this statement needs to be rising early so he can ‘make the doughnuts’.
I fear in fact it does make no sense to the level that is following this.
And so often go God’s attempts to reason with humanity. God will sooner suffer than lose a soul, and humanity views that with contempt as “God, You are some sucker.” But again, God has all eternity in which to deal out the consequences to someone who will never let his or her conscience be changed. He does not need to be in a hurry.
I agree, it is malfeasance on the part of the officer.
We once had laws and people to enforce them but obama the lawless one has unleashed his minions to turn our culture our society inside out, upside down, shake and strangle anything that resembles righteousness by the neck.
Sorry I asked. Thank you anyway.
36” of hardwood applied to the wrists, hands, arms, knees in self defense would be a kind, loving response.
At the level of the world, however?
It should be standard operating procedure by now. If you’re going to protest, bring a camera or video recorder.
“The Portland Police Department later said it would not press charges against the assailant as the incident was deemed “a private criminal complaint.””
Oh, so if I do the same thing to the police officer in question, it will be viewed only as “a private criminal complaint” and I won’t be arrested?
R-I-G-H-T.
Or maybe they only are the elitists that they will not brook being treated in such a fashion.
Simply declare that I am now defending myself and start kicking the guy’s ass.
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