{"id":1535142,"date":"2022-07-01T12:20:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1535142"},"modified":"2022-07-01T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T16:20:30","slug":"seattle-preacher-arrested-during-pride-event-says-crime-was-reading-bible-in-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seattle-preacher-arrested-during-pride-event-says-crime-was-reading-bible-in-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Preacher Arrested During Pride Event Says \u2018Crime\u2019 Was Reading Bible In Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fseattle-preacher-arrested-during-pride-event-says-crime-was-reading-bible-in-park%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1535142&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Seattle street preacher says he was arrested for simply reading his Bible at a public park near a Seattle Gay Pride event.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Meinecke was surrounded by Seattle police officers and taken to the police station, where he was fingerprinted before being released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo at this point we can no longer stand by,\u201d a police officer told Meinecke as he arrested him. \u201cThe risk that you pose for public safety by remaining here can be mitigated if you leave, it\u2019s your last chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to leave because I\u2019m not in danger,\u201d Meinecke responded.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SPD 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! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pytbNDel9I\">pic.twitter.com\/pytbNDel9I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Seattle Preacher (@mattteamjesus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattteamjesus\/status\/1541307230099714049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One Seattle Pride event featured several men <a href=\"https:\/\/protestia.com\/2022\/06\/26\/children-watch-on-as-seattle-pride-event-featured-naked-men-on-bikes-clothing-optional-water-fountain-party\/\">riding their bicycles naked<\/a> as some children watched; during another event some men <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KatieDaviscourt\/status\/1541193654970220546\">paraded around naked<\/a> in front of children, according to footage posted of the event.<\/p>\n<p>Meinecke posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattteamjesus\/status\/1540586926645854208\">video<\/a> of Bibles that he said had been seized from him and ripped as one person yelled at him, \u201cGet the f*** out of here! Get your holy water off my ovaries, b****! Get the f*** out!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One person yelled at Meinecke to \u201cforget about your imaginary fairy in the f***ing sky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was at the Seattle Center, reading the Bible, not aggressively preaching, not stirring people up, not anything,\u201d Meinecke said. \u201cPeople throwing things. People vandalizing our property. I think about 10 police officers showed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour job is not to silence me and move me,\u201d the street preacher said of the police. \u201cWhy are they so offended by words? I just believe in using the word of God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to his heart, he continued, \u201cSo if those words are so offensive then the problem is here. The problem is in you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeanwhile we have a bunch of naked people walking around over here, not even 200 feet away,\u201d he noted. \u201cNaked grown men around little children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a video, Meinecke stated, \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 ten police officers to arrest a street preacher reading his Bible in a park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EXCLUSIVE?src=hash&#038;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&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RoeVsWade<\/a> rally + <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SeattlePride?src=hash&#038;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>\u2014 Jonathan Choe Journalist (@choeshow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/choeshow\/status\/1542037394202865664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the police. I have no problem with the police at all,\u201d Meinecke <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/choeshow\/status\/1542046166098911234\">stated<\/a>. \u201cI mean, I\u2019ve preached to the police, but it\u2019s only salvation. It\u2019s only the gospel. \u2026\u00a0I believe that police are fallible human beings just like anyone else and worthy of criticism like everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Seattle street preacher says he was arrested for simply reading his Bible at a public park near a Seattle Gay Pride event. Matthew Meinecke was surrounded by Seattle police officers and taken to the police station, where he was fingerprinted before being released. \u201cSo at this point we can no longer stand by,\u201d a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1535308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}