YouTuber Tyler Oliveira claimed that Benny Hinn's security team assaulted him and his cameraman after he crashed the televangelist's Christian conference, accusing him of being a "false prophet, fake healer, and snake oil salesman." Oliveria, who addressed the incident in his video titled "I Exposed the Most Corrupt Churches in America," says that he paid $99 to attend the Spirit Life Conference in Chicago, Illinois, last month to meet with Hinn, who leads the global evangelistic ministry World Healing Center Church, and declared that the televangelist would "face judgment."

In one clip of the video, Oliveira is shown rushing onto the stage as Hinn was wrapping up a prayer.

"Benny Hinn is a false prophet, fake healer, and snake oil salesman," he declares as he reaches the stage, shocking Hinn in the process.

Oliviera continued to hurl accusations at Hinn, such as that he "is using the Word of God for money" while he was escorted out of the conference and was reportedly beaten by Hinn's security team outside.

"While I was getting the George Floyd treatment fighting for each breath, my cameraman ran for his life to avoid a similar fate," the YouTuber recalled, claiming he "got hog-tied, body-slammed, and tackled."

He said his cameraman, identified as Pasha, was also assaulted by security and was allegedly hit with a golf cart.

"I was hit twice with a golf cart, assaulted by a person here, then they tackled me and threw me into the middle of a reactive road," the cameraman says in the video. "And after that, they kept beating my head, and then they grabbed my camera, and they were trying to delete the footage."

Hinn, who has long been a leading figure in the word of Faith movement, claimed to have renounced the prosperity gospel in 2019.

"I'm sorry to say that prosperity has gone a little crazy, and I'm correcting my own theology, and you need to all know it. Because when I read the Bible now, I don't see the Bible in the same eyes I saw 20 years ago," Hinn told his followers at the time.

"I think it's an offense to the Lord; it's an offense to say give $1,000. I think it's an offense to the Holy Spirit to place a price on the Gospel," he added. "I'm done with it. I will never again ask you to give $1,000 or whatever amount because I think the Holy Ghost is just fed up with it."

In similar fashion, the televangelist told Charisma Magazine founder Stephen Strang in an interview last year that promoting the prosperity gospel was one of his two biggest regrets in ministry.

"When I started in ministry, it was simple. And then the ministry grew. …I think that's when my troubles began. I don't blame anyone, but sadly, you get kind of in a place [where] it becomes difficult. You don't know what to do and how to get out of it," he said.

"So I came to the conclusion in 2019 that I don't want to be part of the gimmickry of it, and I still stand by that. But sadly, I let the pressure get to me, and because of that pressure, I said things and did things that I should not have done. ...And for that, really, I am sorry, and I ask the dear people watching us to really forgive me for that. And I'm striving with all my heart to be as biblical as possible with that."

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