Video showed a pro-life activist getting struck with a cane and shoved by pro-choice demonstrators who converged on him last week — and a cop who was told about it apparently just waved the victim away.
Coleman Boyd still continued to express his opinions, telling the pro-choice crowd, “I beg you, please, have mercy on these babies,” WAPT-TV reported.
What happened?
Pro-choice advocates gathered outside the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson on Tuesday to protest the state legislature’s bill banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected.
Video showed Boyd talking to and walking toward the pro-choice demonstrators, trying to convince them that “babies in the womb” are “human beings.”
Image source: YouTube screenshot
With that a pair of men walked up to Boyd — and things quickly got physical.
One of them holding a cane was seen using it to jab Boyd, who replied by saying, “Call the cops. He just hit me with his cane.”
Image source: YouTube screenshot
The other man confronting Boyd told the man with the cane to not touch the pro-life activist.
Soon another pro-choice advocate in a tie-dyed shirt approached Boyd and repeatedly said, “F*** off, jackass,” before yet another appeared among the growing crowd, shoved Boyd backward, and also said, “F*** off.”
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The pro-choice demonstrator who urged his fellow activists to not get physical told Boyd that he’s “disturbing a meeting” and should leave — but Boyd kept right on speaking.
“We are shedding innocent blood!” he told the pro-choice crowd. “And we as a people will stand before God!”
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When Boyd told them “Jesus said he is the way, the truth, and the life,” that pro-choice activist who wanted him to leave replied that he’s seen Boyd at abortion clinics “spitting on women” and accused him of being a “hypocrite.”
“You call yourself a Christian,” the man told Boyd.
Cop appears to ignore Boyd
As the strains of Queen’s “We Will Rock You” blared from nearby speakers, Boyd spotted a police officer, walked over to him, and told him he was hit with a cane.
But the cop appeared to wave off Boyd.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
When reporters later asked Boyd why he was there, he told them he wanted to protect babies in the womb.
“They’re being led to destruction, they don’t have a voice,” he said. “They’re human beings made in the image of God.” He added that “we should not be able to murder children in the womb to have our comforts and our better life … just because they quote ‘get in our way.'”
A federal judge cited the dignity of women in his decision Friday to block Mississippi’s pro-life heartbeat bill.
Here’s the clip. (Content warning: Profanity):
Christian Assaulted in Mississippi
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