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Cops zap pastor protesting traffic stop at church

By ARELIS HERNANDEZ
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WEBSTER, Texas -Police used a Taser on a pastor and pepper spray to disperse his congregants Wednesday after the pastor allegedly interfered with a traffic stop in the church parking lot. Congregants say they were in the Iglesia Profetica Peniel church for an early morning prayer when pastor Jose Elias Moran went to assist the stopped driver, a church member, by asking the police what had happened.
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2009-07-02 14:09:43

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Iresearch1831133

10:08 PMJul 03 2009

This Pastor should be grateful for the extra voltage he was lucky enough to receive from the police. On tonights news the Pastor admitted he was addicted to electricity and got a charge out of the experience. The Pastor said he had not lit up like that since he was given a colon exam by Michael Jackson.

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Reddrn63

09:35 PMJul 03 2009

Should have been back not bank.

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Reddrn63

09:32 PMJul 03 2009

First, I must question why the pastor even left the church? As stated to assist the member??? In what way could that be? If he had not done as he did, all things would have been completed and the member could have continued on into the church. This incident brought bank several memory's of my own. As a young member of a large poliice department, I attempted to stop a vehicle on a Sunday morning for weaving across two lanes of traffic. He pulled into a church parking lot, tried to exit his vehicle but fell to the ground. He was twice the legal limit for driving while intoxicated. The whole church came out after me. A big scene, OH YES!!!! IIt turned out that he was the pastor of the church. A lot of people were arrested that day and most of them had warrants for their arrest imcluding several felony ones. A suggestion might be for everyone to mind their own business at the moment and then appear in court on behalf of the pastor.

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TexasFisherman07

03:29 PMJul 02 2009

mnhlp...just because our cops aren't the pansies found in your neck of the woods doesn't make the nazis. go back to you knitting and let the real men do the tough work.

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MnHlp

11:48 AMJul 02 2009

WHAT THE HELL WAS THE POLICEMAN DOING KICKING IN THE CHURCH DOOR? WHAT A NAZI??? Very typical of law enforcement in Texas. Complete SHTHEADS!

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Laurarvail1

01:04 AMJul 02 2009

First off, a parking lot is NOT public property, if it is maintained for the church. Second, welll there was a second, but I forgot what it was...

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Police used a Taser on a pastor and pepper spray to disperse his congregants Wednesday after the pastor allegedly interfered with a traffic stop in the church parking lot. Congregants say they were in the Iglesia Profetica Peniel church for an early morning prayer when pastor Jose Elias Moran went to assist the stopped driver, a church member, by asking the police what had happened.