Officer relieved of duty for not harassing ministry workers
Rusty Pugh
OneNewsNow.com
April 24, 2007

A Christian police officer in Pennsylvania reportedly has been relieved of his duties because he refused to take part in illegal harassment and detention of a group conducting a ministry on a college campus.

Last week, Life & Liberty Ministries was conducting one its on-campus outreaches at Kutztown University in eastern Pennsylvania. Ministry president Dennis Green says his group was immediately surrounded by a hostile crowd, and police were called to the scene.

Even though they were on a public university campus and were within their legal rights, campus and borough police ordered the ministry workers to leave and even arrested at least one. According to Green, one of the campus police officers did not agree with that tactic.

"As this was going on, the policeman in charge had asked one of the officers ... to escort us or to arrest us or to make us leave," he recalls. "He refused to do that; he knew we had a right to be there ...." the rest