SFPD arrest man who, dressed as a woman, pointed gun at preacher delivering sermon on Market Street
More details are emerging in the March 11 incident on San Francisco’s Market Street, where a man, apparently dressed as a woman, drew a gun and pointed it at the face of a street preacher after taking objection to the cleric’s fiery sermon.
Shortly before 6:00pm the next evening, SFPD officers patrolling in the Mission district, who had been advised to be on the lookout for the suspect, arrested 47-year-old city resident Chad “Charlie” Jackson.
Investigators seized a “replica firearm.”
In a much-publicized viral video of the incident, Pastor Kevin Kihara of Christian Forgiveness Ministries is seen delivering an oration on ‘trans’ issues – saying that God “didn’t make a man to be a woman, he made a man to be a man”.
The man identified as Jackson then approaches Kihara and points a large handgun directly at him. A calm Kihara says: “Hey man, it’s up to you if you want to pull that on me. God bless you.”
Moments later, as he was fleeing from the scene, Jackson tells Kihara to “shut the fuck up!”
Kihara, police say, did not call them at the time of the incident. Officers got in touch with him after learning of the viral video.
Jackson was cited for ‘brandishing an imitation firearm in public’ and ‘fare evasion’.
He is not presently in custody in San Francisco.
A spokesman for the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to a question about the status of the prosecution.
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