"The cops are liars," says pandering and prattling pandemic pastor...
and, he says, the coroner's a liar, too. Standard operating procedure for these Trumpo-fascists: liars calling everyone else liars.
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/coronavirus/article_4286c264-828d-11ea-88cd-8f46245d6a4a.html
Attendance at a Central church headed by a pastor who has defied Louisiana's attempts to restrict crowd size appears to be shrinking from recent weeks, police said Sunday, as the pastor brushed off law enforcement head counts as untrue.
The attendance drop logged by law enforcement follows the recent death of a church congregant and the hospitalization of a lawyer tapped to represent the church's battle against Gov. John Bel Edwards' order limiting crowd sizes to less than 50 people.
Sources confirmed to The Advocate that the congregant, a 78-year-old man, had contracted the respiratory illness caused by the new virus before he died. A 59-year-old Baton Rouge lawyer hired to represent the church has been hospitalized since last week while battling COVID-19.
Spell had said his Easter service drew more than 1,300 and dismissed the accuracy of law enforcement's number.
"The cops are liars," he told The Advocate Sunday when reached by phone. "Second, never trust a cop after this pandemic."
Spell said his staff track attendance and report it to him in the evening. In early April, Spell said he preached to 1,800 people after his church packed over two dozen buses to bring worshipers to the Hooper Road church. Police say the church hasn't seen nearly that many people but enough people to violate the state's social distancing order.
Spell acknowledged last week that he knew Wittenbrink had contracted the coronavirus and was praying for him. Spell also had disputed the East Baton Rouge Parish coroner's findings, calling them "a lie" and telling local television stations the man, 78-year-old Harold Orillion, died of a broken heart after his son's recent death.
