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Bishop Lamor Whitehead, the flashy NYC pastor who was robbed by gunpoint while delivering a sermon, has made headlines again. This time, the Brooklyn-based pastor is being slammed with criticism for the way he manhandled a female churchgoer during a recent Sunday sermon.

Over the weekend, the 44-year-old minister was caught on camera giving a live-streamed sermon at his Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries church in Canarsie, when a woman in the congregation began shouting. At one point, the women’s loud cries interrupted the pastor’s sermon.

Throughout the video, Bishop Whitehead attempted to overtalk the woman, but the unidentified congregant kept shouting louder. Further along in the video, the woman could be seen walking past the pulpit, as if she were approaching someone off-camera. That’s when Whitehead quickly rushed the woman, grabbing her by the neck and shoving her out of the frame.

“Go over here, go over here,” he tells the woman in the video.”Grab her out.”

He could later be heard telling her off-screen: “Press whatever charges if you want, you’re not going to come in my space. I feel threatened.”

After the woman was removed, Bishop Whitehead went back to delivering his sermon as if nothing happened.

Social media slams pastor for grabbing the woman

Cops showed up at the scene following the altercation. According to TMZ, Bishop Whitehead and the angry woman were taken down to the precinct for questioning, but no charges were filed against the pastor.

Online, a few users lit into the pastor for the way he forcefully grabbed the woman by her neck during the incident.

“We all saw you choke that lady!!” wrote one person on Instagram. “She was not running she literally walked up and was going past you, and then you assaulted her. She needs to press charges and sue.” While another Twitter user wrote, “Bishop Whitehead is a false prophet and his cult needs to be dismantled.”

Bishop Whitehead addresses the altercation

Later on, Bishop Whitehead released a lengthy Facebook live video addressing the events that lead up to the incident. According to the Brooklyn minister, the woman seen in the video was retaliating against twin lawsuits he had previously filed against two YouTubers who accused him of stealing from his congregation. The allegations surfaced shortly after a shocking video caught Whitehead being robbed at gunpoint by thugs who allegedly stole over $400,000 worth of jewellery while he was delivering a sermon back in July.

Earlier this month, Bishop Whitehead filed twin lawsuits seeking $40 million in damages from YouTubers DeMario Jives and Larry Reid after they accused him of stealing from his congregation. The lawsuit states, that Jives allegedly told his followers that the pastor was wearing the same swag that was taken from his church. Reid claimed that the pastor was scamming his congregants out of money. He also claimed that the Bishop would be “locked up” for his alleged crimes soon. In the suit, Whitehead said that the allegations spread by both Jives and Reid have cost him “business deals, church members and income,” according to The Daily Mail.

The woman in the video later shared footage of the injuries she sustained after the tussle. Listen to what she had to say down below.

 

 

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