Four British evangelists took police officers to court accusing them of unlawful arrests and harassment.
A group of British street evangelists filed a lawsuit against a group of police officers for alleged harassment and unlawful repeated arrests. The proceeding started rolling out on Monday at the Bristol Country Court.
Mike Overd, Don Karns, Mike Stockwell, and A.J. Clarke. collectively known as the Bristol Four, filed a case against a group of police officers over an incident that happened in the summer of 2016. The four street evangelists claimed that British police arrested Overd while they were preaching the word of God in front of a statue of John Wesley in Bristol City Centre.
Mike Overd, a street evangelist and client of the British group Christian Legal Centre in the U.K. (seen in this undated photo), has been charged under Section 5 of the Public Order Act with causing offense for public remarks where he drew a comparison between Jesus Christ and Muhammad, September 2014. | (Photo: Facebook/Mike Overd)
The British Christian street evangelists known as the Bristol Four are taking the police who arrested them in the summer of 2016 to court.
In court proceedings that began Monday in Bristol County Court, Mike Overd, Don Karns, Mike Stockwell, and A.J. Clarke brought forward claims against the police for assault, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, misfeasance in a Public Office, and infringement of their Human Rights, specifically rights set forth in articles 9, 10 and 11 of the European Convention of Human Rights, according to Christian Concern.
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