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Letters to the Editor Criminal justice data, Texas Democrats, masks Readers advocate for improving our criminal justice data system; compare the Texas legislators’ walkout to a strike; urge the Texas governor to reconsider his mask ban; and say they are embarrassed by Ken Paxton. Angie Andrade refastens the face mask on her 3-year-old daughter, Abigail, as they pick up free sack lunches at J.T. Saldivar Elementary School in Dallas March 17, 2020. DISD typically provides breakfast and lunch during spring break for any student wishing to drop by for a meal, but in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, some families have practiced extra caution in picking up meals.(Lynda M. Gonzalez / Staff Photographer) ....
12-10-2020 Preacher Mike Overd. (Screenshot credit: Christian Concern/YouTube) Four Christian preachers in the United Kingdom, known as the Bristol Four, will challenge the Avon and Somerset Police Departments over their arrests following an incident caught on video in 2016. Christian Concern reports Mike Overd, Don Karns, Mike Stockwell, and AJ Clarke are bringing their lawsuit against the police for assault, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, misfeasance in a Public Office, and infringement of their Human Rights, in particular articles 9, 10 and 11 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The case raises significant questions on the right to freedom of speech and the freedom of Christian preachers in the UK to exercise their religious beliefs and to have the right to freedom of assembly in public. ....
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. ....
Michael Overd is accusing Avon and Somerset police of assault, false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, misfeasance in a public office and violating his human rights. (YouTube/ Christian Concern) Street preacher Michael Overd has filed a lawsuit against the police, claiming that he was falsely imprisoned and assaulted by an officer for “being homophobic“. Overd, alongside preachers Mike Stockwell, Don Karns and AJ Clarke, brought the case against Avon and Somerset police in relation to an incident in July 2016. All four were arrested on suspicion of a religiously aggravated public order offence while preaching outside Broadmead Shopping Centre in Bristol. Overd and Stockwell were convicted and fined for the offence in February, 2017, but were later cleared on appeal. ....