Your Church Needs a Security Team: The Basics of Building & Maintaining a Team for Church Defense
Brutal American Podcast
Tate Taylor & Ethan Senn
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 72 minutes
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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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