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Posted: 5/24/2022 3:35:24 PM EDT
CHILDERSBURG, Ala. (WIAT) – A Childersburg pastor was arrested after watering his neighbors flowers over the weekend and he believes it was a misunderstanding that should have been handled much differently.
Michael Jennings is the preacher at Vision of Abundant Life Ministries in Sylacauga and has been in ministry for more than 30 years. He’s also a good neighbor in the town of Childersburg. “My neighbor goes out of town a lot and they wanted me to watch their house and keep their flowers watered,” said Jennings. Sunday after church services, Jennings went over to his neighbor’s house to water the roses. Another neighbor did not recognize who he was and called police to report a suspicious person on the property. Officers responded and made contact with Jennings, who did not have his identification on his person. Jennings said he did tell the officers who he was and why he was there. “He said, ‘Give me some ID’, I said ‘No, I don’t have to give no ID because there ain’t no crime been committed, I said but what I will do is I’ll tell you I am Pastor Jennings and I live right across the street right there and I said you can go ask my wife,” said Jennings. ... “I think it was profiling and because I did not talk to them the way they wanted me to talk to them, it made them angry and they decided we are going to arrest him,” said Jennings. The original neighbor who called police told officers that she made a mistake and begged them not to arrest Jennings once she realized it was her friend and neighbor. The woman’s account is detailed in the incident report, but Jennings was still charged with obstructing governmental operations. https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/childersburg-pastor-arrested-after-watering-neighbors-plants/  holy shit. Stepped on your dicks there boys.
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Posted: 5/24/2022 3:37:26 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/24/2022 3:40:12 PM EDT
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Cops being cops.
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Posted: 5/24/2022 3:40:48 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/24/2022 3:41:06 PM EDT
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Lots of cops don't like when
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Posted: 5/24/2022 3:41:07 PM EDT
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Protected and served.
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Posted: 5/24/2022 3:41:41 PM EDT
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Protected and served!
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Posted: 5/24/2022 3:49:16 PM EDT
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Neighbor reported suspicious black man who turned out to be her neighbor.
Black man, likely with victim mentality, refuses to cooperate with simplest of requests and do normal person stuff. Police responding to report of suspicious activity and making simple request for ID are the obvious bad guys. BLM forever! |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 3:51:15 PM EDT
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Mighty fine police work there
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Posted: 5/24/2022 3:57:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Neighbor reported suspicious black man who turned out to be her neighbor. Black man, likely with victim mentality, refuses to cooperate with simplest of requests and do normal person stuff. Police responding to report of suspicious activity and making simple request for ID are the obvious bad guys. BLM forever! Yup. A 6 minute walk across the street and a talk with the wife could have proven his identity as well as offered a call to the out of town home owner. Instead typical little dick syndrome kicked in and they cuffed the dude. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 3:58:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Neighbor reported suspicious black man who turned out to be her neighbor. Black man, likely with victim mentality, refuses to cooperate with simplest of requests and do normal person stuff. Police responding to report of suspicious activity and making simple request for ID are the obvious bad guys. BLM forever! I read the OP without knowing the pastors race and it didn't change my mind. Police were wrong and quite honestly their kind of mentality about being able to see anyone's ID anytime they want needs to fucking stop. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:00:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I read the OP without knowing the pastors race and it didn't change my mind. Police were wrong and quite honestly their kind of mentality about being able to see anyone's ID anytime they want needs to fucking stop. When they're on someone else's (private) property? |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:00:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Neighbor reported suspicious black man who turned out to be her neighbor. Black man, likely with victim mentality, refuses to cooperate with simplest of requests and do normal person stuff. Police responding to report of suspicious activity and making simple request for ID are the obvious bad guys. BLM forever! I don't give a shit that he is black. You can replace the work black with red-headed white man and the rest applies to me just as well. Fuch those specific cops. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:01:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I read the OP without knowing the pastors race and it didn't change my mind. Police were wrong and quite honestly their kind of mentality about being able to see anyone's ID anytime they want needs to fucking stop. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Neighbor reported suspicious black man who turned out to be her neighbor. Black man, likely with victim mentality, refuses to cooperate with simplest of requests and do normal person stuff. Police responding to report of suspicious activity and making simple request for ID are the obvious bad guys. BLM forever! I read the OP without knowing the pastors race and it didn't change my mind. Police were wrong and quite honestly their kind of mentality about being able to see anyone's ID anytime they want needs to fucking stop. 100% this. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:01:20 PM EDT
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Protected and served.
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:02:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When they're on someone else's (private) property? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I read the OP without knowing the pastors race and it didn't change my mind. Police were wrong and quite honestly their kind of mentality about being able to see anyone's ID anytime they want needs to fucking stop. When they're on someone else's (private) property? Which he had permission from the property owner to be there. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:04:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When they're on someone else's (private) property? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I read the OP without knowing the pastors race and it didn't change my mind. Police were wrong and quite honestly their kind of mentality about being able to see anyone's ID anytime they want needs to fucking stop. When they're on someone else's (private) property? He was allowed to be on that property. So I'm not sure where you’re going with this. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:04:36 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Neighbor reported suspicious black man who turned out to be her neighbor. Black man, likely with victim mentality, refuses to cooperate with simplest of requests and do normal person stuff. Police responding to report of suspicious activity and making simple request for ID are the obvious bad guys. BLM forever! Guys watering plants are almost always casing the house ready to break in and steal everything. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:05:51 PM EDT
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Ihre Papiere, bitte.
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:06:08 PM EDT
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Papers please
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:07:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When they're on someone else's (private) property? So if you ever go onto someone else's property, friends, family members, a neighbor, etc, the police can just roll up and take ur ID? It would be different if the homeowner had called, but a random joe who has no inkling of their neighbors dealings can make a call and have someone's privacy invaded is absurd. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:09:06 PM EDT
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You 'vill do az you are tolt...
Obstructing? May as well have been mopery. Fire the cops. Let them guard a mall somewhere... |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:10:06 PM EDT
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Quoted: No, I don’t have to give no ID because there ain’t no crime been committed Must be a furiner. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:11:08 PM EDT
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If he wasn't immediately offering blowjobs to those heroes, he deserves every bit of it.
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:11:15 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When they're on someone else's (private) property? Was the property owner the one complaining about their presence? Have you never been given permission to be on someone else's property before? |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:12:27 PM EDT
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"Obviously, you don't know who the man is in this situation"
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:12:30 PM EDT
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FWIW, the real culprit here is the Karen who called the cops.
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:16:33 PM EDT
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In Alabama, must you present photo ID in order to identify yourself?
Full name, address, etc., insufficient? |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:17:14 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Neighbor reported suspicious black man who turned out to be her neighbor. Black man, likely with victim mentality, refuses to cooperate with simplest of requests and do normal person stuff. Police responding to report of suspicious activity and making simple request for ID are the obvious bad guys. BLM forever! Well, user name fits. 
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:17:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: No, I don't have to give no ID because there ain't no crime been committed Must be a furiner. https://www.bbc.com/pidgin |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:18:16 PM EDT
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I’m glad I back the blue. I’ll add another sticker to my car today.
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:19:31 PM EDT
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Contempt of cop strikes again.
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:19:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: When they're on someone else's (private) property? Hold up. The police didn’t know whose property it was. All they had was a call and a pastor stating who he was. With all the scrutiny (rightfully so) these days, all the cell phones recording, what was the harm in checking out the man’s story? |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:21:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Cops being cops. Blue Squad assemble! This is gonna be good. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:22:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Neighbor reported suspicious black man who turned out to be her neighbor. Black man, likely with victim mentality, refuses to cooperate with simplest of requests and do normal person stuff. Police responding to report of suspicious activity and making simple request for ID are the obvious bad guys. BLM forever! Do the boots taste like donuts? |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:22:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Neighbor reported suspicious black man who turned out to be her neighbor. Black man, likely with victim mentality, refuses to cooperate with simplest of requests and do normal person stuff. Police responding to report of suspicious activity and making simple request for ID are the obvious bad guys. BLM forever! Fuck that. I walk over to my neighbors I wouldn’t have ID on me as my wallet is in the house. I am standing there watering plants and cops roll up demanding an ID they would have got the same response. “No ID. I live next door.” Neighbor verifies it and a cop pulls a tantrum and locks the guy up. Cop in this case is wrong and it’s has nothing to do with race unless it was bias on the cops side. ‘Super suspicious” white guy watering plants gets the same treatment? I am normally very suspect on this type of case but this one to me is just wrong on the police side. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:23:36 PM EDT
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Let’s see, in the winter I snowblow the Methodist Church’s sidewalks, and in the summer, I’ll’ even make a pass on the zero turn on the local .gov buildings grass lawn, if it’s getting too long.
If the State Police showed up, I’ll talk to them, even with a beer in my hand and a pistol in my pocket. Sounds like it’s a case when assholes collide. I’m Catholic, and I’m from Detroit. And I live in Pennsylvania….guess things just make sense when people aren’t clowns. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:23:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Contempt of cop strikes again. Bruising an ego counts as assault, right? |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:24:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I read the OP without knowing the pastors race and it didn't change my mind. Police were wrong and quite honestly their kind of mentality about being able to see anyone's ID anytime they want needs to fucking stop. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Neighbor reported suspicious black man who turned out to be her neighbor. Black man, likely with victim mentality, refuses to cooperate with simplest of requests and do normal person stuff. Police responding to report of suspicious activity and making simple request for ID are the obvious bad guys. BLM forever! I read the OP without knowing the pastors race and it didn't change my mind. Police were wrong and quite honestly their kind of mentality about being able to see anyone's ID anytime they want needs to fucking stop. It wasn’t some random pedestrian they wanted to ID. They were responding to a neighbor’s report of suspicious activity. I hope there is body cam footage of this that gets released. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:24:43 PM EDT
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"You will show ID" - doesn't matter if we suspect you of a crime, or just want to pull you over for "reasons".
 Michigan Cop Shatters Car Window After Driver Refuses To Give ID |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:26:17 PM EDT
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Respect my authority or go to jail
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:26:30 PM EDT
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is verbal ID not enough in AL for someone not driving?
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:26:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 100% this. I told BSO to go pound said when they asked for my ID after I went for a run and was 'suspiciously' sitting on a curb. I am white though. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:27:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Hold up. The police didn’t know whose property it was. All they had was a call and a pastor stating who he was. With all the scrutiny (rightfully so) these days, all the cell phones recording, what was the harm in checking out the man’s story? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: When they're on someone else's (private) property? Hold up. The police didn’t know whose property it was. All they had was a call and a pastor stating who he was. With all the scrutiny (rightfully so) these days, all the cell phones recording, what was the harm in checking out the man’s story? How could they check out his story when he was walking away and basically telling them to go fuck themselves? |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:28:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It wasn’t some random pedestrian they wanted to ID. They were responding to a neighbor’s report of suspicious activity. I hope there is body cam footage of this that gets released. So how do you justify arresting him after this exchange? The original neighbor who called police told officers that she made a mistake and begged them not to arrest Jennings once she realized it was her friend and neighbor. 
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:29:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It wasn’t some random pedestrian they wanted to ID. They were responding to a neighbor’s report of suspicious activity. I hope there is body cam footage of this that gets released. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Neighbor reported suspicious black man who turned out to be her neighbor. Black man, likely with victim mentality, refuses to cooperate with simplest of requests and do normal person stuff. Police responding to report of suspicious activity and making simple request for ID are the obvious bad guys. BLM forever! I read the OP without knowing the pastors race and it didn't change my mind. Police were wrong and quite honestly their kind of mentality about being able to see anyone's ID anytime they want needs to fucking stop. It wasn’t some random pedestrian they wanted to ID. They were responding to a neighbor’s report of suspicious activity. I hope there is body cam footage of this that gets released. That could have been an assault sprayer attached to the garden hose. Might have been trying to do the full nozzle instead of misting and murder the plants. Probably no serial number, so an 80% ghost sprayer? |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:29:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: 100% this. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Neighbor reported suspicious black man who turned out to be her neighbor. Black man, likely with victim mentality, refuses to cooperate with simplest of requests and do normal person stuff. Police responding to report of suspicious activity and making simple request for ID are the obvious bad guys. BLM forever! I read the OP without knowing the pastors race and it didn't change my mind. Police were wrong and quite honestly their kind of mentality about being able to see anyone's ID anytime they want needs to fucking stop. 100% this. I'm sure our Austin pd rep will be along shortly to straighten you out, this was nothing but top notch police work. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:29:35 PM EDT
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Quoted: CHILDERSBURG, Ala. (WIAT) A Childersburg pastor was arrested after watering his neighbors flowers over the weekend and he believes it was a misunderstanding that should have been handled much differently. Michael Jennings is the preacher at Vision of Abundant Life Ministries in Sylacauga and has been in ministry for more than 30 years. He's also a good neighbor in the town of Childersburg. "My neighbor goes out of town a lot and they wanted me to watch their house and keep their flowers watered," said Jennings. Sunday after church services, Jennings went over to his neighbor's house to water the roses. Another neighbor did not recognize who he was and called police to report a suspicious person on the property. Officers responded and made contact with Jennings, who did not have his identification on his person. Jennings said he did tell the officers who he was and why he was there. "He said, 'Give me some ID', I said 'No, I don't have to give no ID because there ain't no crime been committed, I said but what I will do is I'll tell you I am Pastor Jennings and I live right across the street right there and I said you can go ask my wife," said Jennings. ... "I think it was profiling and because I did not talk to them the way they wanted me to talk to them, it made them angry and they decided we are going to arrest him," said Jennings. The original neighbor who called police told officers that she made a mistake and begged them not to arrest Jennings once she realized it was her friend and neighbor. The woman's account is detailed in the incident report, but Jennings was still charged with obstructing governmental operations. https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/childersburg-pastor-arrested-after-watering-neighbors-plants/ holy shit. Stepped on your dicks there boys.Summary: Man not breaking any laws gets arrested for disrespecting low IQ cops authority |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:30:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Guys watering plants are almost always casing the house ready to break in and steal everything. Must be those Wet Bandits I've heard so much about. |
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:31:09 PM EDT
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3 warnings, 1 timeout
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Posted: 5/24/2022 4:31:33 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It wasn’t some random pedestrian they wanted to ID. They were responding to a neighbor’s report of suspicious activity. I hope there is body cam footage of this that gets released. The same neighbor who told the cops on scene that she was mistaken, and the guy wasn't actually suspicious? |
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