The head pastor of a California church is facing criminal charges after he was caught on surveillance video pushing an elderly woman down a set of cement stairs.
The footage captures Pastor Lorenz Roseman of Beulah Land Missionary Baptist Church in Gardena shoving a female church elder out a gate and down the short flight of steps last fall outside the house of worship.
The incident happened on Oct. 7, 2025.
Roseman was arrested and charged with assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury — a felony — and released on his own recognizance, according to a criminal complaint obtained by Law&Crime…