Former NFL player now leader/member of a cult? 2 of his followers are facing weapons charges
This is a follow up to another thread.
][link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212919185|
I think GBJ and those 2 young men need psychiatric help and I just wonder if anyone has tried to intervene. Also gotta wonder if this is another CTE case. In older interviews, he spoke glowingly of his commitment to his family and even to the school itself, he spoke about being on the board. His behavior now is quite a drastic change.
][link:https://www.foxsports.com/other/story/gbaja-biamila-focused-on-family-not-football-021213|
Something else I found interesting, in 2016 GBJ endorsed Ted Cruz for president. Prior to that, he endorsed Rick Santorum. He was active in WI Republican politics. One report described GBJ as a right wing nut job. He was even encouraged to run for office
[link:https://totalpackers.com/2016/04/ted-cruz-trotted-kabeer-gbaja-biamila-today/|
The Crazy Case of Ex-NFL Player’s Pageant-Crashing Lackeys
The retired Green Bay Packer now runs a fringe ministry. Two of his followers spouted “sovereign citizen” buzzwords in a bizarre court appearance.
Two men associated with a fringe church have filed handwritten court documents demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars and international flights after being accused of carrying guns to a children’s Christmas pageant at the request of their church leader, a former NFL star.
Jordan Salmi, 24, and Ryan Desmith, 22, were charged last month with trespassing, disorderly conduct, and carrying concealed weapons to Providence Academy’s pageant in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Both men were members of a church led by former Green Bay Packers player Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, who told reporters he’d asked the men to photograph the event, which his children were attending.
In an interview, he told The Daily Beast that his conflict over the Christmas pageant “has been going on for the last two years,” since his wife left him over his new religious beliefs. He wrote the school a letter forbidding his children’s participation in 2018, prompting the school to call police, he said, adding that “in 2019, I was really proactive. In September, I sent an email to the school forbidding them from going.”
The day before the pageant, Gbaja-Biamila said, he and the school headmaster “met at another church at a parking lot and I gave him a bill for $150,000…. I let him know if you use my property, known as my sons and daughters, I’ll have to be compensated.” The headmaster probably thought it was a joke, he said. After the meeting, he called the headmaster again. “I said, 'Am I your slave? You’re gonna use my property without compensation?'.... He took offense and hung up on me.”
When it became clear the Gbaja-Biamila children would appear in the pageant, he allegedly sent Salmi and Desmith to photograph or film it, so that he could charge the school for use of his “property,”
][link:https://www.thedailybeast.com/duo-accused-of-bringing-guns-to-kids-xmas-pageant-demand-cash-and-planes-in-court|
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That needs to be rectified immediately!
