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Brooklyn Pastor Who Had Million Dollar Jewelry Stolen Arrested After Forcefully Grabbing Woman During Live Sermon

When law enforcement arrived, they placed the bishop in handcuffs, took him to the 69th Precinct station house, and told him that he was going to be charged with assault.

“They put me in cuffs, and I told them I wasn’t getting in. And they grabbed me and picked me up and put me in the car,” Whitehead said. “There were a lot of little kids in church that are frightened now—again. All the little babies in my church saw me get arrested, the ones that look up to me.”

Whitehead told the news outlet that he just wants to preach the Word of God, but instead gets treated like a criminal.

Whitehead explained that the charges were dropped, and he was let go a couple of hours after he was arrested.

“You don’t get to arrest me and throw me in prison,” he said. “They had me in a cell with someone with felony charges and let me out. It’s not going to stop here. If I was a rabbi, if I was a Catholic priest, they would have never done this.”

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“They lock me up in front of my children, in front of my wife, in front of my church. They publicly embarrassed me and then they drop all the charges after two hours and apologize to me,” the bishop told the New York Daily News.

 

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Whitehead’s Facebook Live Video Explains Incident

Whitehead hosted a Facebook Live later that evening, in which he told those watching that the “NYPD failed me today and failed my church today.”

The bishop claims the women where sent by bloggers looking to gain notoriety by fabricating stories against him and his ministry. Whitehead refused to mention the bloggers by name during his Facebook Live on Sunday night. However, he revealed to reporters on Monday that he believes pastor Larry Reid was behind what he refers to as “a setup.”

Whitehead and Reid have a recent history of shouting at each other after the two appeared together on an Instagram Live alongside Apostle Geneses Warren. In that exchange, the bishop confronted Reid for laughing at his family getting robbed live on the internet.

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The bishop also claims that the only reason he was arrested was because he is Black, saying, “They would have never did it to a rabbi. They would have never did it to a priests. But because of the color of my skin, they arrested me. Not only did they arrest me, but when they put me into the police car, they injured my wrist.”