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Welcome, Christian warriors. I have a critical update that gang activity was definitely involved in the mass shooting that occurred at the LDS church in Salt Lake City just a few days ago. This information comes from a reliable source. You can actually check him out yourself, S2 Underground. He is on YouTube and he is on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Now, he has provided reliable information in the past, but with all third-party reporting, it should be treated as unconfirmed pending official statements. But I got to tell you, I have seen the chief of police give his statements, and he contradicts himself repeatedly in his statements, and it's obvious to me as a 30-year-old professional cop, including time as a gang team sergeant investigating gang crimes, that he is absolutely covering up information and not presenting it to the public. He, a lot of people say he's in with the gangs. He's not. Look, man, he is just a poor public speaker and he is afraid to tell the truth because it shows that the police have lost control and that they're not doing their job properly. That's all there is to it.
But let's get into this new information. Now, according to S2 Underground, the Salt Lake City shooting that occurred during a funeral service was not a random act and not ideologically motivated, which we speculated already, but was a result of ongoing conflict involving the Tongan Crips Gang, or TCG. It is one of the more dominant gangs in Utah, and they have been a problem for some time now.
Now, the reporting claims that while the building is an LDS church, the specific ward has allegedly been used for some time as a community hub for TCG members with visible gang presence during services and events. Now, photo and video evidence from the night of the shooting reportedly shows individuals displaying gang colors, conducting informal security at entry points, wearing face coverings, consuming alcohol, and openly signaling affiliation.
Now, this video here purportedly comes from just prior to the shooting. Now, you can see all the gang members surrounding the casket, saying goodbye to their homie, but they are all wearing visible gang colors and gang paraphernalia. The same video that's been posted online, fast forward after the shooting, you can see a notable decrease in gang members because they've either been shot or they're running away from the crime. But there are still gang members present within the church as police respond and deal with the shooting and take statements from the people inside.
Now, there are additional claims that include that the services at that location at that church are conducted exclusively in the Tongan language and that the deceased individual whose funeral was being held was allegedly an active Crips member. And that's according to statements attributed to his widow. Now, if this is accurate, the information would further support the assessment that this was a gang-related shooting and not an attack against the LDS church as a religious institution. It would also raise serious concerns about situational awareness, risk tolerance, and long-term criminal influence over specific locations.
Now, at this time, law enforcement has not publicly confirmed gang involvement. Despite the gang unit reportedly leading the investigation, the two suspects still remain at large.
Scripture is clear that the church is set apart for worship, repentance, and the teaching of God's word. It's not a place for criminal activity, intimidation, or for the projection of violence. Jesus himself drew a firm line when corruption entered the house of God. In Matthew 21:3, he says, "My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you make it a den of robbers." That rebuke was not about excluding sinners. It was about refusing to allow sin to be normalized or empowered inside the temple. Look here, you have a man wearing gang colors, drinking alcohol on the stage in front of everybody in what is supposed to be a church.
The Bible makes a clear distinction between welcoming those who seek repentance and tolerating behavior that brings harm to others. In 1 Corinthians chapter 6:9, it says, "Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived." Now, repentance requires turning away from violence, lawlessness, and idolatry, not carrying those things into the church. And to be clear, I've always told gang members that if you wear gang colors constantly, that that's idolatry. You're idolizing the gang more than you worship your Lord.
And God also charges leaders with the responsibility to protect his people. In Psalm 82:4, "Rescue the weak and the needy. Deliver them from the hand of the wicked." Allowing no criminal activity, threats, or violent influence to remain unchecked inside of a church places innocent people at risk and fails that responsibility. The church must also be a place of peace, order, and accountability. In 1 Corinthians 14:33, it says, "God is not a God of confusion, but of peace." When disorder, intimidation, or criminal influence is visible, it has to be confronted and removed and not ignored.
Now, welcoming sinners doesn't mean surrendering in the church's sin. Protecting the congregation, setting boundaries, and refusing to allow criminal activity inside God's house is not unloving. It's obedience.
Now, I skipped ahead. Normally I do the Bible second, but it just blows me away that an entire Crips set has taken over a church and is just desecrating everything. And we can get into the whole fight about LDS as a faith as a whole. I'm going to leave that out of it. But we do need to call out specifically the LDS leadership because they have just shown time and again that security is not a factor in their churches. We had the mass shooting of 10 people at an LDS church in Michigan. That was just a couple of months ago. I called them out because they put their entire plan, their security plan, and a video online for everybody to see to see that they don't allow guns in the church, which I I love how the Tongan Crips gang did the shooting outside so they didn't violate the rule that you can't have guns inside the church, which I'm being facetious. We all we all know that I'm joking around, but they let everybody know you can't have guns inside the church. And then we have this incident. And although it's easy to say, oh, it's just criminal activity. And I see that in the comments. Somebody made the comment, "Oh, it's not a mass shooting. It didn't happen in the chapel." No, it's a mass shooting. It happened on the property and it is a mass shooting. Eight people were shot. So, Mormon church, that was 18 people shot in the last six months because you haven't taken security seriously.
We all can learn from what's going on over there at the LDS church. The Catholic Church has the same problem. There are Norteno and Sureno gang members that go to church. We have Bloods and Crips that go to church just like we saw here. They're believers, but they still continue the criminal activity and don't repent for their sins. They still come to church and they will take over those churches. And I have seen instances of other churches not ejecting these people from the church.
I just want to be clear on what you should do if you see this activity within your church. Number one, nip it in the bud. Just be done with it the minute you see them show up in gang colors. And if you want to know more, I have a great class for free over at christianwarriortraining.com. Hit the courses tab and I have one called recognizing threats. And in there I talk about iconology. Iconology is like look, if you see me, you can tell that I'm a Christian because I mean it says Christian warrior training, but I got a cross on my shirt. So you can assume that I'm probably a Christian. You can see somebody wear a blue line flag and they're either a supporter of law enforcement or they are law enforcement. But you can also see people like here you see in this picture. Let's use the picture of the man drinking alcohol in the church wearing gang colors. He's wearing all blue underneath, right? To just kind of subdue it a little bit but still let everybody know, let it peek out to let everybody know he's a Tongan Crips. That is iconology. His his what he is worshiping is the gang.
If you're a pastor or a security team, just because somebody wears blue or red, that doesn't mean they're a gang member. But there is some other clues with this man that we see here. It's obviously the blue clothing, but it's also look at his hand and all the tattoos. Look at the tattoos and you will see stuff like TCG, which is Tongan Crips Gang, or they might be wearing all red and you see an XIV, that's Sureno. You should talk to the law enforcement in your area and ask them what gangs are active in your area and ask them to give a brief to your security team. And I actually recommend you get a bunch of security teams together from different churches from all over and ask them what are the predominant gangs in this area? What does their clothing look like? And they'll show you pictures of real people from your community wearing these things.
So next time you're at church, if let's say I I really saw the biggest problem I saw was with the Catholic church. I would watch a Catholic mass and as people would come in, I would see people wearing gang colors as they go in. You would just need to immediately tell them like, "Hey, you're welcome here. We want you to repent for your sins, but we do not allow gang clothing inside the church. You have to leave that outside. So, go change and then come back."
I also like telling them and giving them a little lesson that them wearing gang colors, especially to church, is idolatry. And then review the passages in the Bible that have to do with idolatry. Let's give some examples. Exodus chapter 3, "You shall have no gods before me." That command is not only about worship service. It's about what claims a person's prime. And a little bit further in Exodus 23:2, it says, "You shall not follow a multitude in doing evil." When people display symbols that publicly declare loyalty to a violent organization, that's not neutral expression. It's alignment. You've got Romans 6:16. "Do you know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey." So clothing, tattoos, colors, and signs are all declarations of obedience and belonging, and they communicate who a person answers. You can go to 2 Kings 17:15. "They went after false idols and became false." The warning is not about belief. It's about imitation and identification. And Jesus makes the conflict explicit in Matthew 6:4. It says, "No one can serve two masters." A person can't claim Christ as Lord while openly displaying allegiance to a gang built on violence, intimidation, and criminal authority. One will always override. God calls his people to be set apart. In Leviticus 20:26, "You shall be holy to me, for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples that you should be mine." Now, allowing gang symbols inside the church blurs that separation and confuses what the church stands for.
I do believe the information that was given to me by S2 Underground, all of the information shakes out. It is pretty much what I've told people in close confidence on what I believed happened and it's also what I put out to you guys publicly in my prior video on this shooting. You can see the video. The video very much is in alignment with what occurred at that crime and it does make sense. I don't believe that it's AI. I don't believe that it's from some other event. It does look, is my expert opinion as a 30-year cop and an experienced gang team sergeant, that this all aligns as being factual. I would appreciate it if the Salt Lake City Police Department and the LDS church came out in a statement and put out the truth.
Now, I've given these videos to some LDS friends and they are in disbelief and they can't believe that it has happened. But we see it happen in other churches around the world. The LDS church needs to get their security under alignment. You will have another active shooter. I'm making that statement so that when the active shooter happens, I can cut and put it into the next video I've got to do where you have another shooting at your church. It's going to happen at some point because you're not taking security seriously. We're not turning our church into a bunker. We're not turning people away from worshiping. We're not we're not pushing people away at all. We are working harder as a group to make sure that people that do come worship can do so peacefully without worry. This is part of stewardship for our congregations.
All right. I want you to pray for a couple people. I want you to pray for this guy. This guy that's drinking alcohol, wearing colors, standing up giving a speech in a church. I also want you to pray for all of these guys that are around the casket. I want you to pray that they all repent for their sins, stop the idolatry, and come to the true Christ. After you get done with your prayers, I want you to remember your ABCs. Always be carrying.