Posted on 08/19/2021 4:35:35 PM PDT by simpson96
After a court refused to admit a “hate speech” case against her, a Christian street preacher in the United Kingdom says she's suing the police for arresting her on the false accusation that she threatened to stab gays and non-believers while she was preaching outside a tube station.
A judge ruled this week that there was no case to answer as the words of Hazel Lewis, a 49-year-old preacher who was arrested under the Public Order Act while preaching outside Finsbury Park tube station in North London last February, had not been threatening or abusive(snip)
Lewis said she is now planning to sue the Metropolitan Police.
“I am delighted that the judge has seen through the lies and has vindicated me,” she was quoted as saying.
During her trial at Highbury Magistrates Court last month, Officer Stuart Day said that a video recording played before the court showed that one of her accusers “very much sounds like he is trying to goad her into commenting on his sexuality. She does not, however, take the bait.”
The accusation against the preacher included that she had made a child cry and used threatening language as she told one of the accusing men, “You are an advocate of Satan and I rebuke you in Jesus’ name,” according to Christian Today, which added that she told listeners that they should be more concerned with knife crime in their neighborhood than her peaceful preaching from the Bible.
Throwing out the case against Lewis, District Judge Julia Newton observed: “The defendant is alleged to have said, ‘you are an advocate of Satan and I rebuke you in Jesus’ name.’ I don’t find those words threatening. These words were certainly disagreed with. I do not find that they were abusive either.”
Newton added: “Further,in relation to distress
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So the accuser who was “trying to goad” her about his sexuality, was he a cop?
Sodomites shouldn’t be cops. Should automatically fail the mental exam for that alone, but we’re living in an insane world.
Isn’t this happening in Canada now? We’ll be next, unless we patriots can agree on a leader to follow.
You may know what the ancient Romans did in times of terrible crisis; they appointed a dictator for six months.
Will jurors be screened for Christianity?
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