A well-known San Francisco street preacher hardly flinched after a transgender woman held a gun to his face after he said: ‘God made men to be men.’
Kevin Kihara, 37, a pastor of Christian Forgiveness Ministries in San Francisco, was preaching ‘the love of God’ near 4th & Market Streets on Wednesday, when a person, believed to be a transgender woman, threatened him with a gun.
While standing beside a table with a microphone in hand the sermonizing pastor delivered his blunt message.
‘You need to try being less like somebody you are not and start to humble yourself and be somebody God made you to be,’ he said.
‘He didn’t make a man to be a woman, he made the man to be a man!’ he exclaimed before adding, ‘he didn’t make the woman to be man, he made the woman to be a woman and this is the truth!’
Kihara then paused, looking into the distance – outside of the camera’s view – before pointing at a person hurriedly walking into the frame.
Calmly, Kihara asked the individual, who was dressed in a bobbed white-gray wig, denim overalls, a black-and-white striped T-shirt, similarly patterned fingerless gloves and heeled boots, if they were ‘going to attack him.’
‘What are you going to come attack me now?’ the pastor said as the emotionally charged person pulled a large black gun out of their purse, pointing it right at Kihara’s face.
‘I should,’ the alleged transgender person replied as they held a gun just inches from Kihara’s head.
The unnamed pedestrian eventually lowered the deadly weapon and walked away in what appeared to be a fit of rage.
Unphased, the pastor then reacted to the terrifying threat.
‘Hey man, it’s up to you if you want to pull that on me. God bless you,’ he said as the gun-wielding individual can be heard yelling profanities at the church leader.
‘Shut the f*** up!’ the wig-wearing individual screamed as they fled the scene.
‘So you just threatened me with a gun. You just pulled a gun on my face,’ he said nonchalantly.
‘Man, Lord have mercy on you,’ he continued. ‘This means you don’t even know who you are. I still love you though. Even you pulled a gun on me, I still love you, I still bless you.’
Onlookers on social media have since commented on the unbelievable event with some expressing fears over the future of America.
‘We have a problem in America. And I assure you, it is not Trump and Musk,’ they added.
Others called for punishment for the weapon-wielding citizen.
‘That’s assault with a deadly weapon. This guy needs to be arrested. @SFPD’ one user wrote on X.
‘Lock that man-pretending-to-be-a-woman up,’ wrote another.
Another chimed in: ‘That’s wild. He’s wearing a costume and carrying a gun like that! This person is a deranged psychopath. This is not proper firearm etiquette, he’s clearly a psychopath looking for problems.’
Another offered an alternative approach to the evident difference of opinion between the two street-side individuals.
‘[The pastor is] kind of a public nuisance but on the other hand, instead of a gun she should have bought a speaker and microphone setup, rolled it out by that guy and start debating and debunking all his points,’ the user wrote.
The high-trafficked area also saw another grisly display of violence as right beside the preaching pastor, a hot dog vendor charged another vendor with a large knife.
The dangerous dispute was allegedly about territory, according to scanner audio.
Scanner audio said it was a return 911 call and that was substantiated by the preacher saying that’s the second time the other vendor had been attacked on Wednesday.