"impeding an open business"? All one has to do is look at the vid and see that wasn't happening. No one was impeded.
Obviously, the charge was made to "fit" the crime because the cop said he wasn't allowed to preach to a captive audience.
I guess they didn't find that on the books and had to use impeding a business.
If he'd been wearing a turbin he won't have been treated this way.
I keep saying that we have to put a stop to this kind of thing at the local level. If this was my community you better believe I'd be calling the mayor and the police department asking if it's their policy to arrest people of faith for expressing their freedom of speech. I'd be at the DVM wearing an I love Jesus tee shirt (standing in line legitimately -- to do business).
This makes me sick.