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Brutal American Podcast

Your Church Needs a Security Team: The Basics of Building & Maintaining a Team for Church Defense

Brutal American Podcast

Tate Taylor & Ethan Senn

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Send us a text! In this episode we talk through the philosophy and objectives of the Refuge Church Security Team. We discuss why church security is important, what the team's purpose is and is not, as well as basic gear needs, and some of the lessons we've learned conducting church security. This episode's Headline Sponsor is: Keep Wise Partners; Visit KeepwisePartners.com or call Derrick Taylor at 781-680-8000 to schedule a free consultation. https://keepwise.partners/ Be prepared. Be armore...

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0:00.0

Gentlemen, get ready for this year's New Christenum Press Conference coming up in June titled The War for Normal.

0:05.6

Our second annual installment of the New Christenum Games will be serving as the opening ceremony to this year's conference, so we hope you've been training.

0:12.6

We will have more details on how you can enter the game soon, but until then, stay frosty, fight the good fight, and act like men.

0:24.0

This episode is brought to you by keep wise partners your partner for small business finance and accounting on December 29th

0:34.9

2019 during a Sunday morning service at West Freeway Church in White Settlement, Texas,

0:40.1

a man stood up near the back of the sanctuary, approached a man standing near one of the back doors,

0:44.8

and opened fire at point-blank range with shotgun.

0:48.4

Services were being live-streamed so the shooting was broadcast as it occurred,

0:52.6

and footage circulated widely online afterward.

0:56.0

The gunman fatally shot two church members, 64-year-old Tony Wallace, a church deacon,

1:02.0

and 67-year-old Richard White, a member of the church's volunteer security team.

1:06.8

Immediately, screaming erupted and congregants scattered away from the gunfire. Within seconds,

1:12.3

volunteer security team members inside the church drew their weapons in response. Jack Wilson,

1:18.0

a 71-year-old former reserve deputy sheriff and head of the church security team, fired a single

1:23.5

shot that hit and killed the shooter, ending the attack. The entire confrontation was over

1:29.0

in just a few seconds. The gunman had attended the church before and had charitably been given

1:34.6

food by the members. Sometime prior to the shooting, he had become angry when asking for money

1:39.6

from the church and being told no. Following the shooting, police described the gunman as a person with a criminal and psychiatric history

1:48.0

and somewhat transient lifestyle prior to the attack.

1:51.0

The West Freeway congregation and broader community mourn the loss of the two men

1:55.0

who were violently gunned down without warning during their Sunday morning worship service.

2:00.0

A Terrant County grand jury later declined to indict Jack Wilson for his actions,

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