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http://news.aol.com/article/pastor-jonathan-paul-ayers-killed-in/637165#axs76
The way I read it, this was murder, plain and simple.
Thepastor did not want to talk to police, so he attempted to drive off. I'm sure he did not know there was an officer who had positoned himself behind the car.
The investigation involved a drug suspect who had been dropped off earlier.
No one has to talk to the police. The pastor was not under arrest. He was not a suspect. A clergyman does not have to talkaboutany counseling he has done, unless the suspect is dangerous.
WHAT THE F#&* IS GOING ON WITH OUR POLICE ?!!??!!??!!??
ATLANTA (Sept. 4) -- Plainclothes officers shot and killed a small-town pastor when the 28-year-old father-to-be resisted efforts to question him about a passenger in his car who was the target of a drug sting, authorities said.
Jonathan Paul Ayers of Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Lavonia wasn't targeted in the probe that ended in gunfire at a gas station Tuesday, Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said. But drug task-force agents opened fire on him after he tried to avoid them, putting his car in reverse and striking one of the officers.
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Matt Carpenter, AP
Pastor Jonathan Paul Ayers, seen with his wife Abby in an undated family photo, was due to become a father.
"Any question of his character, particularly involving something like drugs, is just ridiculous," he said.
Carpenter said Ayers and his wife had wanted to live in a town closer to their family, but they settled near the Lavonia church where Ayers felt called to be a pastor.
"They were exactly where they were supposed to be," Carpenter said, adding that they had recently led the small congregation's first mission trip, to Africa.
Carpenter said Ayers' wife, who is 16 weeks pregnant, is grappling with the idea of being a single mom.
"That's why it's hurting us all so badly," he said.
Ayers' wife declined to speak to The Associated Press.
http://news.aol.com/article/pastor-jonathan-paul-ayers-killed-in/637165#axs76
The way I read it, this was murder, plain and simple.
Thepastor did not want to talk to police, so he attempted to drive off. I'm sure he did not know there was an officer who had positoned himself behind the car.
The investigation involved a drug suspect who had been dropped off earlier.
No one has to talk to the police. The pastor was not under arrest. He was not a suspect. A clergyman does not have to talkaboutany counseling he has done, unless the suspect is dangerous.
WHAT THE F#&* IS GOING ON WITH OUR POLICE ?!!??!!??!!??
ATLANTA (Sept. 4) -- Plainclothes officers shot and killed a small-town pastor when the 28-year-old father-to-be resisted efforts to question him about a passenger in his car who was the target of a drug sting, authorities said.
Jonathan Paul Ayers of Shoal Creek Baptist Church in Lavonia wasn't targeted in the probe that ended in gunfire at a gas station Tuesday, Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said. But drug task-force agents opened fire on him after he tried to avoid them, putting his car in reverse and striking one of the officers.
Skip over this content
Matt Carpenter, AP
Pastor Jonathan Paul Ayers, seen with his wife Abby in an undated family photo, was due to become a father.
"Any question of his character, particularly involving something like drugs, is just ridiculous," he said.
Carpenter said Ayers and his wife had wanted to live in a town closer to their family, but they settled near the Lavonia church where Ayers felt called to be a pastor.
"They were exactly where they were supposed to be," Carpenter said, adding that they had recently led the small congregation's first mission trip, to Africa.
Carpenter said Ayers' wife, who is 16 weeks pregnant, is grappling with the idea of being a single mom.
"That's why it's hurting us all so badly," he said.
Ayers' wife declined to speak to The Associated Press.
