If the purpose of the order was to educate police officers regarding islam, such an education can take place during an inservice at the station.
For Christians and Jews alike, being present at the place of worship during services, IS to participate in those services. Unless the police are there in an official capacity..ie to keep the peace or make arrests, then the officer was right to protest.
The background to this particular “visit” that was ordered for the police officers, is that the police department responded to a complaint by the Islamic Center that Jesse Harrison was going to “protest” (legally) outside the center on a certain day (Jesse having let them know that he was going to do so).
The Islamic Center said that they took that as a dangerous threat to them, and asked the police department to intervene. They did, by surrounding his house with a Swat Team, arresting him and taking him to mental facility. He was there about two weeks when he demanded a hearing to determine if the mental facility could still hold him.
At the hearing the DA argued that they should continue to hold him. However, the doctors said they found no medical basis to continue to hold him, so they released him.
The very second he was released, he was immediately arrested by the Tulsa Police Department. He never got outside the facility. The DA charged him with making illegal threats (I can’t remember the exact terminology, but that’s the gist of it).
He was held in jail for a few days, until the DA finally decided to drop the charges and release him. I guess he figured out that he couldn’t “make a case” in court.
Within a few weeks after all that, the Islamic Center in Tulsa said that they were putting on a special function to THANK THE TULSA POLICE DEPARTMENT for taking care of the “Jesse Harrison” situation, as they did.
It was THIS ‘THANK YOU FUNCTION’ that the police were “ordered” to go to, because none of the officers would go “voluntarily”.
Within a few months of all that happening, Jesse Harrison planned another protest there at the Islamic Center. I was there with Jesse, along with many other men, women and children, protesting against Islam and also “for” Captain Paul Fields. The Tulsa Police Department had a presence there, while we were protesting, but did not interfere.