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LAKEWOOD CHURCH ABORTION ACTIVIST PROTEST
BASED ON OPEN-SOURCE INTELLIGENCE (OSINT) AS OF JUNE 12, 2022 A.D. • COMPILED & ANALYZED BY JIM WAGNER
DATE & TIME: June 7, 2022 at 11:00 am
LOCATION: Lakewood Church, Huston, Texas (Joel Osteen’s megachurch, with 45,000 attendees every week).
TYPE OF ATTACK: Abortion activist protestors from Texas Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights.
SUSPECTS: 3 female protestors (late 20s to early 30s).
MOTIVE: Animosity towards Christian churches, of all denominations, for their Biblical pro-life beliefs.
WEAPONS USED: None.
INJURIES OR DAMAGE: None.
SITUATION: Pastor Joel Osteen had just finished leading the morning prayer. When the congregation began to sit down for the sermon, three Caucasian women stayed standing in the middle of the sanctuary approximately 30 feet from Pastor Osteen. They were in the middle of the pew, with people on both sides of them, and they began shouting out Pro-abortion slogans.
RED ACTION: Two of the protestors immediately took off their dresses (black dresses with blue and white flowers and green leaf pattern), and their white sports bras had green, (the color that symbolizes pro-choice [the murder of unborn babies in the womb] activism, handprints on the cups of the sports bras and red paint in the crotch area of their panties; front and back. They chanted “My body, my f**king choice!” One woman yelled out, “Overturn Roe, hell no!” The third woman then also stripped to her underwear a few seconds later. A black woman, who was sitting in front of the protestors, immediately stood up, grabbed something from a bag on the floor, then unfurled a Kenyan (Africa) flag and held it up with outstretched arms while remaining seated. Then the woman who had first disrobed, yelled out, “I am who I say I am; I do what I say I can do, because I have a choice!”
When the women were being escorted out of the pew by security, they waved green bandanas above their heads (again, the color of global pro-abortion activism).
BLUE ACTION: Three undercover church security officers (all in their 60s, and unknown if they were armed or not) immediately responded to the disturbance. 18 seconds after the disturbance began, one of the undercover (business suit with earpiece and mic coming out of the left sleeve) church security officers pushed (controlling force) one of the women on her back to have her exit towards another undercover church security officer on the other side of the women. A third undercover security officer was directing the women to come towards him, at the end of the pew, as part of the triangular team formation, which is a standard tactic for dealing with a disruptive person, or persons, in a pew.
10 seconds after the women were being escorted out, the congregation began to clap (glad that the protestors were being removed from the sanctuary).
The incident was being live streamed, and once the disturbance began many congregants began videotaping the scene with their cell phones. Within minutes the video footage went viral over Twitter.
JIM WAGNER’S COMMENTARY: Churches across American can expect more of these abortion rights protests in churches. So far, they have been conducted by non-violent protestors from Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights.
On Sunday, May 29, Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights held an “emergency national organizing summit,” where co-founder Sunsara Taylor called followers to action by saying, “How dare the Supreme Court overturn abortion rights. We must dare to rise up in our millions in nonviolent protest to stop them.” The United States Supreme Court may indeed overturn Roe v. Wade, amen (so be it), which legalized abortion nationally in 1973.
Coco Das, an organizer for Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, stated to the Huffington Post, “Our nonviolent actions weren’t against [Osteen] or Lakewood Church. We wanted to wake people up across the nation and the world. We are challenging people to rise up and take action against these dangerous measures.”
Disturbing a church service is against the law, a misdemeanor, and the church leadership should press charges (citizen’s arrest) when these types of protests occur. If there are no legal consequences, then it will only encourage more churches to be disrupted.
In my opinion, Lakewood Church handled this situation professionally (based on the video that is on YouTube, and Lakewood Church took down the video that was live streamed). Controlling force (pushing lightly and guiding) and firm verbal commands was all the force that it took to remove the three protestors. However, once a hand goes onto a person the general rule is to expect a fight from the disruptive person. As a former police officer, this was usually the time a person fought, even if they appeared cooperative. Therefore, church security officers must be trained in police-style Defensive Tactics and knowing the use-of-force continuum (civilian private security version).
One woman had an unknown object (what looks like the shape of cell phone) between her breasts held in place by her sports bra, because the bottom part was sticking out just below the bottom of the bra. However, one can never assume that it is “just a phone.” Even what looks like a cell phone can be a firearm designed to look like one. There have been many police bulletins on these types of weapons. Therefore, church security officers should know the proper way to search females if a weapon is suspected in between the breasts (the Cross Technique with the back of the hand – non sexual touch). This situation is another good reason why there should be well-trained female church security officers on the team.
Church security teams must conduct realistic scenarios, in the sanctuary, that simulates disruptive behavior (yelling out, noise makers, display of banners, chaining oneself to an object, demon possession, etc.) . Those who built on the wall, and those who carried burdens, loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked at construction, and with the other held a weapon. Every one of the builders had his sword girded at his side as he built. And the one who sounded the trumpet was beside me. Nehemiah 4:17-18
LOCATION: Lakewood Church, Huston, Texas (Joel Osteen’s megachurch, with 45,000 attendees every week).
TYPE OF ATTACK: Abortion activist protestors from Texas Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights.
SUSPECTS: 3 female protestors (late 20s to early 30s).
MOTIVE: Animosity towards Christian churches, of all denominations, for their Biblical pro-life beliefs.
WEAPONS USED: None.
INJURIES OR DAMAGE: None.
SITUATION: Pastor Joel Osteen had just finished leading the morning prayer. When the congregation began to sit down for the sermon, three Caucasian women stayed standing in the middle of the sanctuary approximately 30 feet from Pastor Osteen. They were in the middle of the pew, with people on both sides of them, and they began shouting out Pro-abortion slogans.
RED ACTION: Two of the protestors immediately took off their dresses (black dresses with blue and white flowers and green leaf pattern), and their white sports bras had green, (the color that symbolizes pro-choice [the murder of unborn babies in the womb] activism, handprints on the cups of the sports bras and red paint in the crotch area of their panties; front and back. They chanted “My body, my f**king choice!” One woman yelled out, “Overturn Roe, hell no!” The third woman then also stripped to her underwear a few seconds later. A black woman, who was sitting in front of the protestors, immediately stood up, grabbed something from a bag on the floor, then unfurled a Kenyan (Africa) flag and held it up with outstretched arms while remaining seated. Then the woman who had first disrobed, yelled out, “I am who I say I am; I do what I say I can do, because I have a choice!”
When the women were being escorted out of the pew by security, they waved green bandanas above their heads (again, the color of global pro-abortion activism).
BLUE ACTION: Three undercover church security officers (all in their 60s, and unknown if they were armed or not) immediately responded to the disturbance. 18 seconds after the disturbance began, one of the undercover (business suit with earpiece and mic coming out of the left sleeve) church security officers pushed (controlling force) one of the women on her back to have her exit towards another undercover church security officer on the other side of the women. A third undercover security officer was directing the women to come towards him, at the end of the pew, as part of the triangular team formation, which is a standard tactic for dealing with a disruptive person, or persons, in a pew.
10 seconds after the women were being escorted out, the congregation began to clap (glad that the protestors were being removed from the sanctuary).
The incident was being live streamed, and once the disturbance began many congregants began videotaping the scene with their cell phones. Within minutes the video footage went viral over Twitter.
JIM WAGNER’S COMMENTARY: Churches across American can expect more of these abortion rights protests in churches. So far, they have been conducted by non-violent protestors from Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights.
On Sunday, May 29, Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights held an “emergency national organizing summit,” where co-founder Sunsara Taylor called followers to action by saying, “How dare the Supreme Court overturn abortion rights. We must dare to rise up in our millions in nonviolent protest to stop them.” The United States Supreme Court may indeed overturn Roe v. Wade, amen (so be it), which legalized abortion nationally in 1973.
Coco Das, an organizer for Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights, stated to the Huffington Post, “Our nonviolent actions weren’t against [Osteen] or Lakewood Church. We wanted to wake people up across the nation and the world. We are challenging people to rise up and take action against these dangerous measures.”
Disturbing a church service is against the law, a misdemeanor, and the church leadership should press charges (citizen’s arrest) when these types of protests occur. If there are no legal consequences, then it will only encourage more churches to be disrupted.
In my opinion, Lakewood Church handled this situation professionally (based on the video that is on YouTube, and Lakewood Church took down the video that was live streamed). Controlling force (pushing lightly and guiding) and firm verbal commands was all the force that it took to remove the three protestors. However, once a hand goes onto a person the general rule is to expect a fight from the disruptive person. As a former police officer, this was usually the time a person fought, even if they appeared cooperative. Therefore, church security officers must be trained in police-style Defensive Tactics and knowing the use-of-force continuum (civilian private security version).
One woman had an unknown object (what looks like the shape of cell phone) between her breasts held in place by her sports bra, because the bottom part was sticking out just below the bottom of the bra. However, one can never assume that it is “just a phone.” Even what looks like a cell phone can be a firearm designed to look like one. There have been many police bulletins on these types of weapons. Therefore, church security officers should know the proper way to search females if a weapon is suspected in between the breasts (the Cross Technique with the back of the hand – non sexual touch). This situation is another good reason why there should be well-trained female church security officers on the team.
Church security teams must conduct realistic scenarios, in the sanctuary, that simulates disruptive behavior (yelling out, noise makers, display of banners, chaining oneself to an object, demon possession, etc.) . Those who built on the wall, and those who carried burdens, loaded themselves so that with one hand they worked at construction, and with the other held a weapon. Every one of the builders had his sword girded at his side as he built. And the one who sounded the trumpet was beside me. Nehemiah 4:17-18