A neighborhood activist and Instagram personality accosted state Sen. Royce Duplessis during a church service in New Orleans on Sunday, spurring sharp critiques from Duplessis and one of his competitors in the city's mayoral race.

The influencer, Byron Cole, sat behind Duplessis and his wife Krystle Duplessis during a service at the Historic Second Baptist Church on Freret Street. Cole live streamed to his 69,000 Instagram followers for 36 minutes as he repeatedly called Royce Duplessis an "adulterer" and a "liar," among other criticisms.

“You bold, son. You bold enough to come sit in my church where I’ve been all my life?” he asked Duplessis as the Rev. Robert Bryant Jackson delivered the Sunday sermon. “You a liar, and you’re an adulterer, and you’re going to come here and lie to t

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