Thug points gun at Burger King drive-thru worker on Easter Sunday; allegedly threatens to kill him, calls him racial slur



It's bad enough that a disgruntled Ohio Burger King customer pointed a gun at an employee on Easter Sunday and allegedly threatened to kill him and called him a racial slur.

But things actually escalated at the Willowick restaurant's drive-thru when the employee told the guy he was being charged less money than he thought he had to pay.

What are the details?

The suspect can be seen in surveillance video exiting his car, pulling out a gun, and pointing it at the drive-through window, WOIO-TV reported.

The station also said it spoke exclusively with suspect's target — 38-year-old Burger King employee Howard Vernon.

“To know that somebody would do something like that just because I’m trying to give you a better deal and just to flip out like that? Yes, I mean it is scary,” Vernon told WOIO.

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“I was taking this guy’s order, and he ordered like two sausage, egg, and cheese croissants and a sausage biscuit and [a] hash brown," Vernon recounted to the station. "The order came up to $8 ... and he was like, 'My order can’t be right; it should be like $11,' and I’m, like, trying to explain to him that we had a promotion going on, and, like, 'It’s cheaper.'"

Apparently, the lower price really set the guy off.

"He started cussing and getting all loud, and I was, like, 'I don’t know what to tell you; I don’t know why you wanna pay more money,'" Vernon noted to WOIO.

Vernon added to the station that the customer sped off but pulled back up a minute later while Vernon was helping another customer — and this time, the customer pointed a gun at him. Vernon also told WOIO the suspect threatened to kill him and called him a racial slur.

“The whole time I was just like, 'Well, if you gonna do it, do it ... I’m not about to run. You don’t scare me or anything like that; just do what you gotta do,' and he just kept blurting out racial slurs," Vernon noted to the station, adding that he was concerned when the suspect was pointing a gun with his arm on top of an older woman's car at the drive-thru.

"He could’ve gave her a heart attack ...” Vernon told WOIO.

The station said the incident took place around 9 a.m. at the Burger King on Vine Street and that the suspect — who police are still looking for — was driving a gray Honda and was wearing a gray sweatshirt and a hat. Those who recognize the suspect are urged to contact police, the station added.

“At the end of the day, it was about some bread and sausage sandwiches at 9 o’clock in the morning on Easter, and you’re that mad that you’d put a gun in somebody’s face?" Vernon told WOIO. "After I thought about it afterward, it was, like, kind of had me shook up a little bit ... it’s crazy ... what if he did shoot me and kill me and, you know, I have 10 kids. I would have been leaving all my kids ... I don't know why people are so angry out here at 9 o'clock in the morning."

The station said Vernon hasn't been back to work at the Burger King since the incident but plans to return.

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Easter Sunday looters take whatever they want from San Fran Walgreens with no resistance; cops arrive 4 hours later



A group of looters did not take the day off Easter Sunday and were caught on video taking whatever they pleased from a Walgreens store in San Francisco. As usual, no resistance was offered.

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Adding a little twist to what's become a commonplace crime in the city is that a producer from local TV news station KPIX recorded the mass shoplifting on his cellphone while he was out with his girlfriend, KPIX-TV reported.

"It was just like an ambush, basically," the producer, who didn't want to be named, told the station in regard to the afternoon ransacking inside the store on 9th and Market Streets. "It took me about three seconds to pull my phone out, ... and they just had no care at all."

Video caught at least seven individuals wearing hoodies and masks grabbing items off shelves and carrying away bags of merchandise, KPIX said.

The producer added to the station that the looters were "taking what they pleased with no regard for the law or those around them — [a] real-life smash and grab."

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He signaled how such crimes are no longer a surprise, saying in a kind of shoulder-shrugging tone that "it's San Francisco" before adding to KPIX that he's "kind of immune to it at this point."

The producer also told the station that store employees "did nothing" in the face of the looting — but that they're likely trained to exercise that response: "They're also probably immune to it. They're used to smash-and-grabs."

Oh, and while the crime happened around 4:30 p.m., KPIX said police didn't arrive until after 8:30 p.m. Police said the store was closed when they got there, and no one was present to report the incident, the station added.

KPIX said it wasn't clear why police responded some four hours later, and the station said it requested clarification from police and Walgreens about the response to the incident.

'You can grab and go as you please'

Sal, a vendor who regularly delivers to the Walgreens and other places, told KPIX he sees looting like this all the time: "They think it's a free-[for]-all. You can grab and go as you please."

Dina Miller has been living in the neighborhood for over a decade and shops at the Walgreens location almost daily on her way home, the station said — and she's just sad: "We don't really have any places to go shop anymore. Everything is closing down. … Walgreens are closing down all over the place, too."

Local security guard Eric Beverly who works nearby acknowledged to KPIX that rampant theft in the area had led to store closures: "It is a very difficult situation. A lot of bankruptcies, a lot of stores are foreclosing and taking precautions as far as marketing because of the theft here. It's very serious."

Matt Dorsey, a city supervisor, lives a few blocks from the Walgreens and shops there, the station said. After viewing cellphone video of the looting, he told KPIX police shortages are part of the problem, too.

"If we had a fully staffed police department, we could have a robbery unit that was doing more enforcement around places where retail theft plays out, holding more people accountable, and doing more to go after the fencing operations ... that make this lucrative," Dorsey noted to the station.

Image source: YouTube screenshot

More from KPIX:

Walgreens has closed at least 17 stores in San Francisco since 2019 and is among other large retailers to have closed up stores in the city or announced plans to close since the start of the pandemic. The last one to close was in February 2023 in the city's Financial District. Walgreens said the closure was "due to a significant decrease in foot traffic in the Financial District since the onset of the pandemic."

In April 2023, a person shoplifting from a Walgreens on Market and 4th Streets in San Francisco was confronted by an armed security guard and shot dead triggering weeks of protests. In July 2023, a Walgreens store in the city's Richmond District began padlocking its freezer section to thwart shoplifters.

Brazen shoplifters ransack San Francisco Walgreens store youtu.be

Anything else?

San Francisco indeed has seen an increase in crime for a number of years — and it just seems to get more and more brazen.

Even the city's far-left mayor, London Breed — who jumped on the "defund the police" bandwagon in 2020 after the death of George Floyd — made headlines for a speech she gave a year later in which she called out "bulls**t" crime "that has destroyed our city."

In February, outspoken NBA legend Charles Barkley shined a spotlight on San Francisco's "homeless crooks" during a live broadcast of the league's All-Star Game. As you might guess, his woke co-hosts pushed back with a vengeance.

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Easter Sunday drag queen event-goers mock Christ, Mary in San Francisco: 'I’m rewriting history so that Jesus never existed'



Participants in an annual Easter Sunday drag queen event in San Francisco mocked Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary, and a number of values many Christians and conservatives share.

What are the details?

Readers of Blaze News should recall the antics of notorious drag group the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Well, the Sisters have been putting on the Easter event in San Francisco for decades, and this year a crowd of about 10,000 gathered in Dolores Park for the 45th annual "party," according to SFist.

Finalists for the "Hunky Jesus 2024" costume contest included Disco Ball Jesus, Golden Shower Jesus, Trailer Trash Jesus, and the eventual winner, Jesus Ken, who dressed up in a a Barbie toy box with his arms outstretched on a makeshift cross.

One drag queen, Sister Roma, asked, ”Is it wrong that I’m attracted to Trailer Trash Jesus?” SFist reported.

More from the outlet:

The Sisters did a nice turn where they brought last year’s Hunky Jesus and Foxy Mary contest winners back onstage. The ensemble group and 2023 Hunky Jesus champions Haus of Jesus did a political “From the River to the Sea” dance protest (one of a few pro-Palestine messages that came up over the course of the day). Last year’s Foxy Mary winner, Free Choice Mary, announced her new pro-choice political project.

“I was really inspired to do this when the Sisters were under fire for what happened with the L.A. Dodgers,” Free Choice Mary noted to SFist.

Last June hundreds of protesters of various religions demonstrated against the Los Angeles Dodgers for honoring the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with a Community Heroes award on the team's Pride Night.

Free Choice Mary added to SFist that “my photo was actually being used on conservative websites as ‘trans man winning an abortion award.’ I want to spread the word that religion and abortion actually do intersect in a beautiful and compassionate way.”

More from the outlet:

Other Marys in the Foxy Mary contests included Make Love Not War Mary, Extra Virgin Mary, and a Miscarriage Mary (“I’m rewriting history so that Jesus never existed,” she told the crowd). The finals came down to the very sweet Maria de Confecciones Immaculada, and Puta Mary, who won thanks to a raucous cheering section from St. James Infirmary.

But your Easter Bonnet Contest winner was Miguel Gutierrez, seen above with his bear-y good Statue of Liberty bonnet. Gutierrez told us that part of his inspiration was that “Today is Transgender Day of Visibility.”

“Since our first appearance in San Francisco on Easter Sunday, 1979, the Sisters have devoted ourselves to community service, ministry and outreach to those on the edges, and to promoting human rights, respect for diversity and spiritual enlightenment,” the group says on its website, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. “We use humor and irreverent wit to expose the forces of bigotry, complacency, and guilt that chain the human spirit.”

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(H/T: The Christian Post)

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Trailer full of hundreds of Bibles intentionally set on fire in front of Tennessee church on Easter Sunday



Law enforcement officials are investigating a "suspicious" incident on Easter Sunday in front of a Tennessee church, where a trailer full of hundreds of Bibles was intentionally set on fire.

Around 6 a.m. on Easter Sunday, the security cameras at the Global Vision Church reportedly caught a man dropping off a trailer in the middle of the intersection, blocking the entrance to the church.

A man reportedly then set hundreds of Bibles on fire in front of the church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee.

The church's pastor, Greg Locke, said in a statement on Facebook: "There was a lady that had driven through the night to get to our church and she was in the parking lot and was able to get the police officers here quickly, but it was quite the scene to wake up to on my first morning back from Israel."

The Mt. Juliet Police Department and Fire Department responded to the trailer fire and extinguished the blaze. The Bible fire caused temporary road closures.

There were no injuries from the trailer fire, and the church property did not incur any damage.

Easter Sunday services at the Global Vision Church were not interrupted.

Locke told the Tennessean, "It did not, nor will it stop us. It was cleaned up in time for people to drive into the parking lot. We had a full house and a marvelous service."

The Wilson County Sheriff's Office noted that the trailer fire was "suspicious" and done "intentionally." Police did not provide a motive for the Bible burning or if the church was the intended target.

Police said no other specific details could be provided at this time in an effort to "uphold the integrity of the ongoing investigation," but updates would be shared at "the appropriate juncture."

Locke declared, "It was 100 percent directed at (Global Vision Bible Church). It blocked the entrance to our campus and the fact that it was an entire load of Bibles is rather conclusive proof that is was most assuredly directed at us."

Locke told WKRN-TV, "It was strange because he [the suspect] had his blinkers on and he scotched the wheels and everything. He was very meticulous, so he had to be very courageous to do what he did. We’ve had people do things to our building, we’ve been vandalized a number of times, hence why we have to have security, but never 200 Bibles being burned. That’s a pretty rebellious statement towards the church."

The pastor proclaimed, "If you think Christianity is not under attack more than ever before in the United States of America, you have not been paying attention."

“What people think many times is going to stop us, really just encourages us, in a weird way, to know that we’re doing what’s right,” Locke stated.

Police are urging anyone with information or footage of the incident to contact the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office at 615-444-1459.

Last week, Locke appeared on "The Steve Deace Show" airing on BlazeTV to have a discussion about faith.

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DEBATE: Should a Christian wear THIS popular Easter shirt?



With Easter just a few weeks away, Christian-themed merchandise is all over social media.

One such item is this popular T-shirt, which cleverly references the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

No doubt it’s a witty way to fuse the Christian faith and pop culture, but is it morally sound for a Christian to wear such a statement?

“I made the decision after thinking about it that there's enough of a gray area there,” so “I backed off,” says Steve Deace.

Aaron McIntire, however, isn’t so sure it’s acceptable.

“The sunglasses are kind of what does it for me,” he says. “Jesus is not a guy boss who just wears sunglasses. Jesus isn't even a bada**. He's the King of kings and Lord of lords.”

“This shirt is taking Christ’s name in vain by not showing you the totality of what he is, what he did, what he is doing, and what he will do,” he explains, citing the Second Commandment, which states, “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above.”

“In the early years of cinema, they would not actually show Jesus on film” because filmmakers thought it would “violate that commandment,” says Steve, “so is any depiction of Christ a violation of that commandment?”

According to Aaron, it’s all about the “motivation” behind the product — whether that product be a T-shirt or Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.”

“The motivation in ‘The Passion’ was to show and shove down your throat what our Savior went through on the cross,” he says, while the kitschy T-shirt does not.

“Until I know whose feet the person wearing this T-shirt will wash, I reserve judgment,” adds Todd Erzen.

To hear more of the conversation, watch the clip below.


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Leftist Chuck Schumer uses resurrection imagery on Easter Sunday to laud Ketanji Brown Jackson's SCOTUS confirmation: 'The stone has been rolled away'



Far-left U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) used resurrection imagery during an Easter Sunday church service to laud Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"The stone has been rolled away from the tomb," Schumer, who is Jewish, said from the pulpit at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn after spending several minutes praising Jackson, who will be the first black woman to sit on the high court.

What are the details?

Schumer began his sermon of sorts by addressing his "brothers and sisters" and saying "the last time we got together in person for Easter, it was 2019, I was still minority leader, Donald Trump was terrorizing New York and our nation with his hatred, his bigotry and lies, and little did we know what the future held in store for us. ... To sum it up, it's been a dark few years."

He continued, curiously, by saying, "But on this day, more than any other day, we remember God's promise to his people ... that was once thought lost will be redeemed and renewed and more glorious than ever before. That even in the darkest times, there are bright lights, and this month, folks, we witnessed one of the brightest that we hope is a metaphor, an indication, a good omen of more bright lights to come — the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson!"

Schumer then spent several minutes praising Jackson, noting that her confirmation is "restoring balance to our judicial system that was thrown out of whack by Donald Trump and his vicious, nasty, and sometimes even outright racist [appointments] to the bench." Schumer then praised himself by saying he "made history by appointing for the time ever our three black U.S. attorneys in New York."

Schumer finished up by saying, "My brothers and sisters, in conclusion, this is what the changing of the seasons looks like. It looks like progress, it looks like growth, it looks like our everlasting struggle to perfect what was once imperfect. Lord knows it took too long to get here, but now that we're here, there's no going back. The stone has been rolled away from the tomb, and all those good things that we hoped and prayed for will come to pass. So happy Easter. God bless all of you."

Here's the clip, which starts as Schumer heads to the pulpit. He begins speaking about Jackson at the 3:45 mark and then uses resurrection imagery just after the 7-minute mark:

Chuck Schumer Lauds KBJ Vote From A.R. Bernard's Pulpit On Easter: "The Stone Has Been Rolled Away"youtu.be

How did folks react?

Those commenting on the video were astonished by Schumer's sermon:

  • "Words fail," one commenter wrote. "This is utter blasphemy."
  • "How can true believers put up with this idolatry[?]" another commenter wondered.
  • "I am speechless," another commenter said.
  • "This pulpit is literally shrouded in darkness," another commenter declared.

Earlier in the video, the church's pastor, A.R. Bernard, remarked that Schumer has come to the Christian Cultural Center "every Easter to share a greeting with you." That led another commenter to say, "No need to be united in Christ if you are united in politics I guess."

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