{"id":255692,"date":"2022-07-05T07:25:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T07:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=255692"},"modified":"2022-07-06T07:55:18","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T07:55:18","slug":"seattle-police-arrest-street-preacher-for-reading-the-bible-risk-to-public-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=255692","title":{"rendered":"Seattle police arrest street preacher for reading the Bible: \u2018Risk to public safety\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Anugrah Kumar \u2013 Christian Post July 2, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Seattle police arrested a street preacher on charges of being a risk to public safety for reading his Bible aloud at a public park near an LGBT pride event.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Meinecke, who identifies himself as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattteamjesus\">The Seattle Preacher<\/a> on Twitter, was surrounded by Seattle police officers as he was reading his Bible and was subsequently arrested and fingerprinted at a police station before being released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSPD has enough resources to send 10 police officers to arrest a preacher reading his Bible in a public park. Because it&#8217;s such a horrible crime now!\u201d Meinecke <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattteamjesus\/status\/1541307230099714049\">wrote<\/a> on Twitter, posting a video showing his arrest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EXCLUSIVE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EXCLUSIVE<\/a>: Earlier today, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeaCityAttorney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SeaCityAttorney<\/a> not filing obstruction charge against street evangelist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattteamjesus?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mattteamjesus<\/a>. He was arrested twice last week for preaching during <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RoeVsWade?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RoeVsWade<\/a> rally + <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SeattlePride?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SeattlePride<\/a>. Far left extremists ripped up his Bible and assaulted him. But they got away. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S4rFlHnKaH\">pic.twitter.com\/S4rFlHnKaH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Choe Journalist (@choeshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/choeshow\/status\/1542037394202865664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo at this point, we can no longer stand by. The risk that you pose for public safety by remaining here can be mitigated if you leave. It\u2019s your last chance,\u201d a police officer can be heard saying.<\/p>\n<p>The preacher told the officers, \u201cI don\u2019t want to leave because I\u2019m not in danger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was at the Seattle Center, reading the Bible, not aggressively preaching, not stirring people up, not anything. People throwing things. People vandalizing our property. I think about 10 police officers showed up,&#8221; the pastor<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/choeshow\/status\/1542037394202865664?s=20&amp;t=bQMWxLh9X_yY5u2zd8kXLw\"> told <\/a>journalist Jonathan Choe with the Discovery Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour job is not to silence me and move me. Why are they so offended by words? I just believe in using the word of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The preacher also posted a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattteamjesus\/status\/1540586926645854208\">video<\/a> showing a protester seizing his Bibles and ripping pages while shouting, \u201cGet the f&#8212; out of here! Get your holy water off my ovaries, b&#8212;-! Get the f&#8212; out!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another person shouted at him, saying, \u201cForget about your imaginary fairy in the f&#8212;ing sky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meinecke said he saw \u201ca bunch of naked people walking around over here, not even 200 feet away. \u2026 Naked grown men around little children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, Meinecke was also arrested during a <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> protest, Choe added on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/choeshow\/status\/1542037394202865664\">Twitter<\/a>. \u201cFar-left extremists ripped up his Bible and assaulted him. But they got away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a video Meinecke shared online, he added: \u201cWe\u2019ve got a city full of crime. We\u2019ve got needles all over the place. Lawless homeless camps everywhere. We\u2019ve got assaults. We\u2019ve got broken glass. We\u2019ve got Antifa running the place. But they\u2019ve got time to send in 10 police officers to arrest a street preacher reading his Bible in a park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/seattle-police-arrest-street-preacher-reading-the-bible.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten cops arrest street preacher for reading aloud from a bible in a public park <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255717,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255692\/revisions\/255717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}