Flashy Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead stated Monday he thinks even the NYPD believes he staged the armed theft by which he had greater than $1 million in jewellery swiped throughout a live-streamed sermon.
Whitehead made the declare at a press convention after one other live-streamed incident Sunday by which he obtained right into a tussle with a lady who apparently crashed his service.
“I consider that the NYPD don't really feel I used to be robbed,’’ stated Whitehead — who wore an enormous gold and diamond chain, ruby ring, Fendi emblazoned sweater and Fendi footwear as he rolled as much as the presser outdoors Brooklyn’s 69th Precinct in a white Rolls Royce convertible with an orange inside.
“I consider they really feel that I set this complete theft up,’’ he stated. “And I’ve heard this from the NYPD, and I’m not going to say any names.
“What’s going round within the NYPD is, ‘Bishop Whitehead set this theft up. They staged it.’
“The gunmen put a gun in my 8-month-old child’s face,” he stated of the July incident.
“So now, why would they respect me and my church in the event that they really feel that I’m a felony?’’ he stated of the cops, raging towards being taken into custody over Sunday’s dust-up involving the lady.
In that incident, Whitehead was preaching on the Leaders of Tomorrow Worldwide Ministries on Remsen Avenue in Canarsie when two ladies interrupted the service.
“I’ve by no means seen them earlier than in my life,” he stated.
The bishop grabbed one of many ladies — later recognized as Tarsha Howard, 47 — and pushed her out of the body.
“Everybody’s saying I choked her. How are you going to choke somebody from behind?” Whitehead stated.
“I grabbed her from behind, from her shirt behind, and I escorted her out. I grabbed her shoulder and the again of her shirt. I didn’t seize no flesh” the bishop stated.
Cops put Whitehead in handcuffs afterward and took him to the precinct for questioning earlier than releasing him hours later. In the meantime, Howard was arrested and faces raps together with trespassing.
“I’m a black man, so mechanically I’m a felony, proper?’’ Whitehead fumed Monday.
Brooklyn Bishop Lamor Whitehead was robbed of $1 million price of his jewellery.
Critics have stated the bishop's lavish life-style has made him a first-rate goal for bother.
Bishop Lamor Whitehead additionally obtained in a tussle with a lady throughout a service.
The bishop — an ex-con who has executed time for grand larceny and identification theft — griped, “I used to be thrown in a cage with one other felon.
“I went from pulpit to the cell for no motive,” stated Whitehead, claiming at one level that he has two PhDs, one in enterprise and the opposite in theology.
“So going by means of the NYPD — and it’s verified — they consider that I set [the robbery] up. So till they see, I assume, these criminals, that once they get caught and so they see that they're arrested and I've nothing to do with it, then I need my apology, as a result of the NYPD and the media have arrange a platform to consider that I’m not a sufferer. I’m a villain as a result of I’m African American.”
Whitehead was 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, police and the bishop stated on the time.
The NYPD would solely say Monday that the case stays open.
Critics have stated his lavish life-style has made him a first-rate goal for bother, whereas some individuals have questioned whether or not the theft was even actual. The bishop has denied having something to do with the crime.
Earlier this month, the bishop filed separate lawsuits towards a preferred YouTuber and one other on-line persona who publicly claimed he was a scammer, amongst different issues.
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