Police Taser Pastor Pepper Spray Church

The Associated Press:
Police used a Taser on a pastor and pepper spray to disperse his congregants Wednesday after the pastor allegedly interfered with a traffic stop in the church parking lot. Congregants say they were in the Iglesia Profetica Peniel church for an early morning prayer when pastor Jose Elias Moran went to assist the stopped driver, a church member, by asking the police what had happened. "They treated him as if he were a drug dealer or murderer, but he is a pastor that tries to help the community," Miguel Moran said. "The police always want to be right but they are not." Moran's wife, Maria, said she tried to help her husband after he was hit with the Taser but police threatened to arrest her. "My husband has a heart condition and with electrocution who knows what could've happened," Maria Moran said.

Posted by Editor at July 2, 2009 07:59 AM