Moment Met Police officer threatens to arrest Christian gospel preachers who are accused of hate crime

This is the moment a police officer threatens to arrest a Christian evangelizer accused of a hate crime.

In a video posted on YouTubeOn Uxbridge High Street in west London, a group of preachers protest their innocence after a member of the public claimed to have made homophobic comments.

The person filming the officers says: ‘All we do is preach our religion. We have been preaching about the gospel and Jesus Christ (and what) the Bible says in the book of John, chapter three verse 16.

A second officer explains that a citizen called the police because of homophobic comments

“For God’s love for the world he gave his only Son, so that whoever believes in him, whether homosexual, drunkard, liar, or prostitute, will not perish and have eternal life.”

However, as the pastor continues to ask for clarification on the situation, two separate officers threaten to arrest him unless he provides his details.

At the beginning you hear an officer say: ‘Currently there are charges of a hate crime, a public order offence, section 4a (and) charges of homophobia.

‘I didn’t hear anything, I’m not saying I heard anything. Someone called us. It could be completely false or true.

“(But) if I’m walking away and I see violations, and the victim wants to report… I could have let down a potential victim.

They add: “If you do not give me your name or address, I have grounds to arrest you. It’s a code of practice.’

A second officer similarly says an allegation has been made of a hate crime causing “alarm or fear in a public space.”

Then they demand: ‘Give me your name now or you will be arrested. You can spend the night in a cell and we can do it that way too.’

It comes just weeks after the Met received footage of five police officers trying to arrest a gospel singer as she performed for fans on Oxford Street.

A third officer threatened to arrest the pastors if they did not provide their information

Here’s a look at one of the preachers recording the police officers

Harmonie London, 20, was singing outside the John Lewis flagship store in London on Sunday when she was approached by volunteer police officer Maya Hadzhipetkova, who wrongly told the busker that she was ‘not allowed to sing church songs outside the church grounds’.

Scotland Yard has since apologized for the accident, explaining that the alleged infringement was due to unlicensed street performers and not the content of the songs they sang, adding that Hadzhipetkova is under investigation.

A clip of the incident shows that there were five other officers on the scene, with one of the officers being heckled by a passerby who asked why officers weren’t spending their time “catching murderers, rapists, killers.”

Onlookers condemned the Metropolitan Police for ‘wasting taxpayers’ money’ and police resources, and demanded an explanation as to why officers threatened to confiscate Harmonie’s equipment.

Harmonie London, 20, (pictured) was singing outside the John Lewis flagship store in London on Sunday when she was approached by volunteer police officer Maya Hadzhipetkova

Scotland Yard has since apologized for the accident, explaining that the alleged breach was due to unlicensed buskers

The Christian singer told MailOnline that she felt ‘threatened’ by the five officers and added that it was a ‘waste of police resources’ if the force continues to ‘say they have too little money and that crime in London is very high ‘.

In the new clip, a police officer is approached by Harmonie’s videographer because he sounds ‘very stupid’, to which the male officers respond: ‘Hello YouTube, I apparently sound very stupid’.

The woman is then heard telling the officer: ‘I would rather you use our taxpayers’ money to catch murderers, rapists and pedophiles, but you’re after a busker here, which is actually a council problem and not yours .

“All these cops here are wasting taxpayers’ money. This is an embarrassment to you and a waste of police time. And I don’t think all police officers are happy about this.’

To which the unnamed officer replied: ‘I’m not after anyone, she’s leaving, I’m happy about that. If you walked away and stopped talking to me, I would walk away too. You asked me to talk to you.”

When the filmmaker once again insists that the officers should ‘catch murderers, rapists and murderers’ instead of stopping buskers on the street, the officer sarcastically jokes back: ‘In that case, I’ll talk about it next time I talk about a murder. .’