{"id":26701,"date":"2026-07-10T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26701"},"modified":"2026-07-10T16:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T23:00:10","slug":"police-officer-warns-street-preachers-they-face-citation-if-someone-is-offended-at-lgbt-pride-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/police-officer-warns-street-preachers-they-face-citation-if-someone-is-offended-at-lgbt-pride-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Police officer warns street preachers they face citation &#8216;if someone is offended&#8217; at LGBT pride rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas police department says it plans to \u201clook into\u201d a viral video showing one of its officers warning a Christian street preaching group they could be cited for simply saying something offensive to others.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter occurred June 27 at Trinity Pride Fest in Fort Worth, where police were caught on video threatening to arrest members of a street preaching team led by evangelist Rich Penkoski. According to the video, police blocked Penkoski and David Grisham from accessing the sidewalk upon their arrival at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/fort-worth-police-officer-warns-street-preachers-at-pride-event.html\">christianpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas police department says it plans to \u201clook into\u201d a viral video showing one of its officers warning a Christian street preaching group they could be cited for simply saying something offensive to others. The encounter occurred June 27 at Trinity Pride Fest in Fort Worth, where police were caught on video threatening to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/police-officer-warns-street-preachers-they-face-citation-if-someone-is-offended-at-lgbt-pride-rally\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Police officer warns street preachers they face citation &#8216;if someone is offended&#8217; at LGBT pride rally<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6WF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26702,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26701\/revisions\/26702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}