Police officer tells singer she is ‘not allowed to sing church songs’
- Gospel singer Harmonie London posted video of confrontation with officer
A volunteer police officer advised a Christian singer that she was ‘not allowed to sing church songs exterior of church grounds’ – earlier than sticking her tongue out at her.
Gospel singer Harmonie London frequently performs worship music to passing buyers on Oxford Street and has greater than 300,000 subscribers on YouTube.
But she was stopped by a Metropolitan Police particular constable and advised: ‘No miss, you are not allowed to sing church songs exterior of church grounds, by the way in which.’
As onlookers watched and filmed the confrontation exterior the John Lewis retailer, Harmonie protested her innocence to the officer, saying: ‘You are, you might be, you might be.’
But the officer continued to insist that she couldn’t sing ‘exterior of church grounds until you’ve been authorised by the church to do these type of songs’.
Gospel singer Harmonie London was stopped by an officer on Oxford Street within the West End
The officer advised her that ‘you are not allowed to sing church songs exterior of church grounds’
The officer then walked away alongside Oxford Street because the singer continued to movie her
At the top of the video the officer caught her tongue out on the singer as she continued filming
Harmonie mentioned ‘that is a load of garbage, you are allowed’ – however the officer then walked away and one other mentioned: ‘She’s not saying something anymore, thanks to your time.’
The singer requested her: ‘Are you saying that you do not care concerning the Human Rights Act?’ She then accused her of ‘laughing’ – and the officer then caught her tongue out.
Among these hitting out on the video was former Conservative minister Ann Widdecombe, who known as for the officer to be ‘struck off from the voluntary drive’.
She advised GB News: ‘She actually has obtained the regulation utterly improper and he or she was clearly having fun with herself relatively an excessive amount of, attempting to boss this lady round.
‘And there isn’t any foundation in any respect for saying you’ll be able to’t sing. I may stroll down the road singing Onward Christian Soldiers and I might be committing no offence in any respect.’
Harmonie London has change into a preferred Christian road singer in recent times (file picture)
Harmonie London has change into a preferred Christian road singer in recent times and now has practically 300,000 followers on every of Instagram and YouTube.
Some of her movies have attracted greater than 4million views. Her newest clip posted yesterday was entitled: ‘Unpaid Volunteer Officer Doesn’t Like Gospel Songs.’
The caption for the clip, posted at about 6pm, mentioned: ‘Special constables are volunteer cops who make investments their free time to make an actual distinction to our metropolis. You will get an incredible quantity of satisfaction from giving again to the neighborhood.’
MailOnline has requested the Metropolitan Police and Harmonie London for remark. It isn’t clear whether or not the officer is certainly a volunteer officer.
