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The Baton Rouge Advocate reports a Southern minister with ties to president Donald Trump has been hit with second degree battery charges and a $25k bond after marching across a four-lane highway to assault a neighbor\u2019s kid.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Rev. Tony Spell stood on the steps of his church in Central on Wednesday \u2014 a day after being arrested for allegedly beating up his neighbor\u2019s 20-year-old son \u2014 and defended his actions, comparing himself to a shepherd protecting his flock,\u201d reports the Advocate.<\/p>\n

Spell claims the neighbors across the street from his Life Tabernacle Church on Hooper Road, have been \u201cterrorizing\u201d him and his congregation for months. He even described the Sherwin family as \u201cdomestic terrorists,\u201d although Central Police Chief Roger Corcoran said they have only received one complaint about the family, filed by the Spell\u2019s wife, Shaye Spell. Corcoran said they investigated the claim but found nothing and closed it, reports the Advocate.<\/p>\n

Just before the fistfight, the pastor claimed the 20-year-old man threatened to rape and kill his family from across the road. However, Scott Sherwin, the father of the 20-year-old, countered after the press conference that his son wouldn\u2019t have said something like that, let alone loud enough for Spell to hear across four lanes of traffic.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know what I think? I should buy my son a megaphone because I know [Spell] didn\u2019t hear across the highway,\u201d Sherwin told the Advocate. He added that his son was in the front yard checking whether the grass was finally dry enough to mow, and had done nothing to provoke Spell.<\/p>\n

But Spell claims the son was on the other side of Hooper Road, shouting obscenities. Spell\u2019s arrest warrant claims the man yelled: \u201cf\u2014\u2014 you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Surveillance footage shows Spell running across the road, with the neighbor videoing him with a cellphone until the fight ensued. The Advocate reports video appears to show the neighbor throwing the first punch as Spell pounced, but then Spell punched the man eight times before tackling him to the ground, then hitting him another 27 times. <\/p>\n

During the fight, Spell also threw the neighbor\u2019s phone into the street. Between punches, while on top of him, Spell twisted the neighbor\u2019s neck to the side. And after the punchout, Spell stood and delivered a kick to the man\u2019s side before crossing back over the road and going into the church.<\/p>\n

The Advocate reports Spell drew national attention in 2020 after refusing to shutter church services at Life Tabernacle, defying the Louisiana governor\u2019s emergency orders restricting group events because of the COVID pandemic.<\/p>\n

At the time, Spell said he had spoken with Tony Perkins, president of the evangelical Family Research Council and one of President Donald Trump\u2019s religious advisers, and \u201che has been a big help for us,\u201d offering encouragement.<\/p>\n

Around that same time, Covid was spreading faster in Louisiana than \u201canywhere else in the world,\u201d according to the LA Times, with 1,388 cases and 46 deaths.<\/p>\n

Read more Humiliating side-by-side comparison exposes Trump\u2019s most pointless lie<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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