Evangelist Pastor Found Not Guilty For Street Preaching

Luke 21:12 “But before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you. They will deliver you to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name.

A pastor who was arrested for preaching the gospel at a train station has been found not guilty of defiant trespassing.

Pastor Robert Parker has been preaching at the Princeton Junction train station for five years.  The station, part of the New Jersey Transit situation, is in the public transportation system and thus public space.

In June 2012, two officers confronted Parker and fellow evangelist Don Karns after the men had finished preaching for the day.  The officers, Sergeant Kathleen Shanahan and Officer Sandy Crowe, also forced Karns and Parker to stop recording the incident on their cell phones in violation of New Jersey law.

The two police officers kept yelling at the preachers that they were potential terrorists.  Parker was arrested when he refused to provide ID and asked the officer what law he had been breaking.

Sergeant Shanahan even told officers to place one of the preachers in a cell “with a pervert” when they brought them into the station.  Shanahan then claimed in court that she had just taken a terrorist class and the men looked like a terrorist threat because they had backpacks and a bulge in their pants pocket.

Superior Court of New Jersey Judge Mark Flemming ruled Friday that the state failed to prove any crime beyond a reasonable doubt.

One thought on “Evangelist Pastor Found Not Guilty For Street Preaching

  1. This persecution is just insane! I knew that Christians would face persecution in the end times, but from the time I was a child I was taught that it was going to be ‘over there’. The escalation have seen in the past
    several years, especially in the military brings me to tears for what Christ must be feeling. The last 2 books I have read by Paul Mcguire have really opened my eyes to the brainwashing and ‘hive mind’ mentality average Americans have been subjected to. The truth has set me free into what is really going on behind the scenes and how to be an overcomer in these end times. 1.) Mass Awakening 2.)Prophecy of the future of America. You can find these at paulmcguire.us

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