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Black Pastor Arrested & Charged While Watering Neighbor’s Flowers
Black Pastor Arrested & Charged In Alabama While Watering Neighbor’s Flowers That Were Out Of Town
A Black pastor in Alabama says he was wrongfully arrested and charged with a crime while he was watering his neighbor’s flowers.
Michael Jennings, a longtime pastor at Vision of Abundant Life Church in Sylacauga, Ala., says he was doing a neighborly deed of watering his out-of-town neighbor’s flowers, per their request, when a police officer showed up.
“I’m supposed to be here. I’m Pastor Jennings. I live across the street,” Jennings told the officer with Alabama’s Childersburg Police Department.
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Following their arrival, officers arrested Jennings and placed him in the back of a police cruiser.
He was later charged with obstructing government operations, according to a criminal complaint.
The report has since gone viral on social media, garnering lots of reactions from folks online. “Sick! I pray he sue them for everything,” someone commented. “Racial profiling,” another user wrote.
“It’ll be dismissed you don’t mess with God’s people,” someone else penned.
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