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Black pastor is handcuffed for watering his neighbor's flowers while they were out of town and CHARGED despite white woman stepping in and telling cops 'he lives right there'
By Vanessa Serna For Dailymail.Com
"Black pastor is set to file a discrimination lawsuit against the police after he was handcuffed for watering his neighbor's flowers while they were out of town - despite a white woman stepping in and coming to his defense.
Pastor Michael Jennings was arrested in May outside his neighbor's yard in Childersburg, Alabama, after police received a complaint about a strange man and vehicle on the property.
Jennings, who was seen in the clip watering the flowers with a hose, had just returned from Sunday service. He told police his long-term neighbor asked him to look after his shrubbery while he was out of town.
But despite his good intentions and other residents vouching for him, Jennings was taken to jail and later charged with obstruction of government operation.
After insisting that he was just calmly gardening in the front yard, police asked Jennings: 'How do we know that's the truth?'
The baffled pastor, who lives in the house across the street, responded: 'I had the water hose in my hand! I was watering the flowers.'
Body camera footage showed three officers from Childersburg Police Department screaming at Jennings as he refused to provide identification - before he was ushered away in handcuffs.
Jennings later learned the person who called 911 knew him but didn't recognize him when she called in the report. "
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...it-handcuffed-watering-neighbors-flowers.html
Black pastor is handcuffed for watering his neighbor's flowers while they were out of town and CHARGED despite white woman stepping in and telling cops 'he lives right there'
By Vanessa Serna For Dailymail.Com
"Black pastor is set to file a discrimination lawsuit against the police after he was handcuffed for watering his neighbor's flowers while they were out of town - despite a white woman stepping in and coming to his defense.
Pastor Michael Jennings was arrested in May outside his neighbor's yard in Childersburg, Alabama, after police received a complaint about a strange man and vehicle on the property.
Jennings, who was seen in the clip watering the flowers with a hose, had just returned from Sunday service. He told police his long-term neighbor asked him to look after his shrubbery while he was out of town.
But despite his good intentions and other residents vouching for him, Jennings was taken to jail and later charged with obstruction of government operation.
After insisting that he was just calmly gardening in the front yard, police asked Jennings: 'How do we know that's the truth?'
The baffled pastor, who lives in the house across the street, responded: 'I had the water hose in my hand! I was watering the flowers.'
Body camera footage showed three officers from Childersburg Police Department screaming at Jennings as he refused to provide identification - before he was ushered away in handcuffs.
Jennings later learned the person who called 911 knew him but didn't recognize him when she called in the report. "
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