Bishop Lamor Whitehead was confronted by two girls throughout a live-streamed service.
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Flashy Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead – who was famously robbed of greater than $1 million in jewellery – was cuffed by cops after which launched Sunday after a scuffle with a girl throughout a live-streamed service.
Whitehead was preaching on the stage of the Leaders of Tomorrow Worldwide Ministries on Remsen Avenue close to Avenue D in Canarsie simply earlier than 11:30 a.m. Sunday when two girls interrupted the service, he later mentioned in a Fb livestream.
Video from the service exhibits the clergyman sporting a blue-and-white patterned go well with as he stood on stage repeatedly booming, “Let’s give Jesus a spherical of applause!” – earlier than including, “whereas they take photos they usually wish to be with social media!”
He was apparently referring to 2 girls within the viewers — together with one who all of a sudden entered the body and walked proper in entrance of him, seeming to level her finger in a special route.
Police say the lady — who they recognized as 47-year-old Tarsha Howard – had been recording the service and approached Whitehead “in an antagonizing method.”
Whitehead shortly grabbed the lady and pushed her out of the body, the video exhibits.
“Go over right here,” he may be heard saying off-camera. “Seize her out, seize her out.
“Amen!” he declared. “You’re not going to return in my area! I really feel threatened.”
Each Whitehead and Howard had been initially taken into custody and dropped at the 69th Precinct.
Whereas Howard was charged with trespass and disrupting a spiritual service, Whitehead – who police say “restrained” the arrested lady – was let go, cops mentioned.
The second lady who allegedly interrupted the service stays at massive, the clergyman mentioned.
Whitehead, who served time in jail for id theft and grand larceny, was beforehand robbed throughout a live-streamed service in July — with the crooks making off with greater than an estimated $1 million in jewellery within the caught-on-camera caper.
The posh-loving clergyman — who rides round in automobiles corresponding to a Rolls Royce — has fought again towards critics who blame his lavish way of life for attracting criminals.
The pastor – who wore two blinged-out watches and one ring with a big stone throughout Sunday’s service – mentioned he was merely defending his household by combating again.
“I’m going to guard my household,” he mentioned within the Fb livestream hours after the incident. “Nobody goes to return at my household, and nobody goes to harm my household ever once more.
“The media has painted an image of me being a villain, which I’m not,” Whitehead mentioned.
He referred to the incident as a “design and assault of the enemy,” including that “they’re not going to make my church uncomfortable to worship.”
He claimed that the 2 girls had been “despatched by some bloggers” who he declined to call “as a result of they’re nobodies.”
Whitehead not too long ago filed twin $20 million lawsuits towards a YouTuber named Jives, who has greater than 80,000 subscribers, and one other on-line character, Larry Reid.
Each males publicly claimed Whitehead was a scammer, amongst different issues, main the plaintiff to lose “enterprise offers, church members, and earnings,’’ the fits say.
Jives — whose full identify is Demario Q. Jives — claimed on his YouTube channel final month that Whitehead “is sporting the identical jewellery that [he] obtained robbed in” again in July, in accordance with court docket papers filed in Kings County court docket on Friday.
Jives additionally allegedly accused Whitehead of “drug dealing” and collaborating with “the Bloods and Crypts.”
Whitehead has denied the claims and known as the lads’s allegations “all false,” defamatory and slanderous, in accordance with his lawsuits
After his launch Sunday, the pastor mentioned the NYPD “failed me” for arresting him within the first place.
“They'd have by no means [done] it to a rabbi. They'd have by no means [done] it to a priest,” Whitehead mentioned. “However due to the colour of my pores and skin, they arrested me. Not solely did they arrest me, however after they put me right into a police automotive, they injured my wrist.
“Nonetheless, after they obtained me to the precinct, they put me in a cell, after which after [that], I used to be instructed the higher-ups — as soon as they discovered who was there – [they] got here in and began to perform a little research. … And all the costs had been dropped on me. However you don’t get to arrest me for no cause.”
Whitehead is about to carry a press convention in regards to the incident exterior the 69th Precinct at midday Monday.
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