The founder of the First Church of Cannabis in Indianapolis is suing former IMPD chief Rick Hite for defamation after Hite compared him to infamous cult leader Jim Jones at a news conference last June.Bill Levin, head of the controversial church, charges in the lawsuit that Hite's comment was "extreme and outrageous conduct" that harmed Levin's reputation and caused emotional distress.
The lawsuit quotes Hite as saying, "As Jim Jones once did within our state, he led a group of people into a place of no return.
We don't want that to happen again in this state."
Jones started the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis and eventually relocated to California and then Guyana, where more than 900 of the cult leader's followers died by murder or suicide in 1978..."
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