Tony Spell in the news again for cutting his grass too early. Body cam video

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Less than two days after being arrested for the widely publicized beating of a 20-year-old man, the Rev. Tony Spell was captured on a law enforcement bodycam calling the alleged victim a slur and threatening the young man’s father.

In East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office bodycam footage taken by deputies between 4:40 and 5 a.m. on June 23, Spell used an anti-gay slur to refer to the man he also said he “beat the crap” out of.

“He’s just sore because I beat the crap out of his f****t boy,” Spell says. “And he’s next if he comes over here and harasses these boys” he says, referring to some teenagers alongside him.

Deputies were dispatched to the area near the pastor’s church in Central that morning after his neighbor, Scott Sherwin, called and complained that Spell was across the street from his house mowing the church lawn around 4 a.m.

Sherwin, whose son was attacked by Spell last week, has had an ongoing feud with the pastor since 2020, In the bodycam video, Sherwin tells deputies it is his understanding that a judge put a protective order in place after Spell’s arrest and the pastor should be keeping his distance from his home. “He's doing this to intimidate my victim son,” Sherwin says to deputies. “Do you cut your grass at 4 in the morning?”

(Pastor Tony Spell is seen on the video [linked] below at the 7:17 mark.)

Sherwin can be seen on the video raising his middle finger in the direction of Spell across the street.

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