A Christian state trooper has been sued for a second time after preaching his faith to a driver during a traffic stop.
Wendy Pyle says she was driving through Pendleton in January when she was pulled over by Indiana State Police trooper Brian Hamilton and given a warning for speeding.
But while she was pulled over, the cop used the encounter to ask if she had ‘been saved’ before inviting her to his church, the lawsuit alleges. He even gave directions.
Pyle, who does not attend church, felt ‘extremely uncomfortable with these questions’ but felt like she had no other choice but to say yes to both, the suit states.
‘When he’s engaged in the official acts of his job, especially when he’s a police officer, those kinds of stops are inherently coercive. That is not the time to be talking to people about their religion,’ Richard Waples, an Indianapolis civil rights attorney, told Fox 59.
This is the second time Hamilton has been sued for preaching to a motorist after pulling them over.
The trooper was sued in 2014 by Ellen Bogan who claimed he had stopped her that August for an alleged traffic violation in Union County.
After giving her a ticket, the cop demanded to know if she went to church and whether she had accepted Jesus Christ as her savior.
He also gave her a religious pamphlet from First Baptist Church in Cambridge City which advertised a radio broadcast called ‘Policing for Jesus Ministries.’ … Read more