{"id":627013,"date":"2021-08-09T18:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T22:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=627013"},"modified":"2021-08-09T18:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T22:36:50","slug":"wheres-your-god-now-police-stand-by-while-portland-antifa-assaults-christian-worshippers-maces-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wheres-your-god-now-police-stand-by-while-portland-antifa-assaults-christian-worshippers-maces-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Where\u2019s Your God Now?\u2019: Police Stand By While Portland Antifa Assaults Christian Worshippers, Maces Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fwheres-your-god-now-police-stand-by-while-portland-antifa-assaults-christian-worshippers-maces-pastor%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=627013&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234585171.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Police were nowhere to be found over the weekend when black-clad members of Antifa disrupted an outdoor Christian prayer service in Portland by macing the worshippers, mocking God, and throwing sound equipment into the Willamette River.<\/p>\n<p>The Antifa protesters, who showed up with shields and weapons, also dispersed \u201cflash bombs\u201d and what appeared to be bear spray among the crowd that included children, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/victoria-taft\/2021\/08\/08\/where-is-your-god-now-portland-cops-do-nothing-as-antifa-attacks-prayer-event-led-by-persecuted-christian-pastor-n1467987\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PJ Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event, which was organized by Canadian Pastor Artur Pawlowski, was threatened on social media before it happened, as The Post Millennial <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/breaking-antifa-assault-families-and-children-at-christian-prayer-event-in-portland-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As The Christian Post further&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/antifa-assaults-kids-injures-pastor-at-portland-prayer-event.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"28.801142857143\">\n<p><em>\u201cWhere is your God now?\u201d one of the Antifa members can be heard shouting in the video.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A woman attending the prayer event described the group as \u201cruthless.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAntifa just rolled in like an angry mob, started throwing flash bombs at everybody, macing everybody \u2026 rotten eggs,\u201d CBN News <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/us\/2021\/august\/ruthless-antifa-attack-christians-children-at-prayer-event-in-portland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">quoted<\/a> her as saying. \u201cThey threw a flash bomb into a group of kids that were out there from 4 months old to like 10.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Pawlowski, who serves as pastor of Street Church and Cave of Adullam Church in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and has been seen in viral videos documenting his encounters with law enforcement over COVID-19 restrictions, was also sprayed in the face with mace.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>An attendee who helped the pastor was quoted as saying, \u201cWalked up to ask them to stop throwing things at the children. There\u2019s kids down there. I mean, they\u2019re toddlers and they sprayed me too.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An Antifa Twitter account later gloated about stealing the Christians\u2019 food and water, as The Post Millennial reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember the Spanish Civil War, when the anarchists expropriation [sic] wealth from fascist churches and gave it to the poor? Well today anarchists in Portland expropriated sandwiches and water from fascist hate preachers and gave them to the houseless,\u201d the account wrote.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Portland ANTIFA ATTACKS families at Portland Prayer Gathering 8-7-2021\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ArGFD1AcaRo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pawlowski made international news in the spring when he was arrested after&nbsp;refusing to allow police and public health officials to disrupt his church service. As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nazi-cowards-calgary-police-arrest-polish-pastor-who-refused-to-allow-police-health-officials-to-disrupt-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> of his ordeal in May:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"22.361997226075\">\n<p><em>Pastor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveartur.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Artur Pawlowski<\/a> and his brother, Dawid Pawlowski, were stopped on their way home from church by a motorcade of heavily armed police vehicles. Informed they were under arrest for allegedly violating Alberta\u2019s Public Health Act, the two were removed from their car, placed on the wet ground in the middle of the highway, handcuffed, and dragged into police vans, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hq-cHqBAjZk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> of the incident.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou are Nazis!\u201d Pawlowski yelled as they cuffed him. \u201cYou are Nazis! You Gestapo psychopaths! Gestapo psychopaths you are! Gestapo!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A passerby heckled the police as they drove off, calling them \u201cNazi cowards\u201d for how they were treating the pastor and his brother. \u201cGo get your paycheck, you losers!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Portland Police have been hemorrhaging officers since the unrest that has roiled the city since 2020. The city has defunded the police by at least $15 million and the homicide rate has also soared.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nazi-cowards-calgary-police-arrest-polish-pastor-who-refused-to-allow-police-health-officials-to-disrupt-service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Nazi Cowards\u2019: Calgary Police Arrest Polish Pastor Who Refused To Allow Police, Health Officials To Disrupt Service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police were nowhere to be found over the weekend when black-clad members of Antifa disrupted an outdoor Christian prayer service in Portland by macing the worshippers, mocking God, and throwing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627013","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\/627013","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}