Beezow Doo-doo Zopittybop-bop-bop Accused of Assault

A man who has made headlines with his unusual name is accused of assaulting a college police officer and a Washington state sheriff.

Beezow Doo-doo Zopittybop-bop-bop, 34, has been charged with two counts of first-degree assault, third-degree assault, third-degree malicious mischief as well as malicious harassment, according to police, who referred to him by his original name. Zopittybop-bop-bop has been reported in the past as homeless and having been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

An officer at The Evergreen State College responded to a report that someone was tearing down several fliers in the entrance of the school's library when a suspect led the officer on a chase, according to local newspaper The Olympian. After a chase, the officer was able to get the suspect to the ground, but he proceeded to thrash on the floor and try to take the officer's gun.

The officer and the suspect continued to struggle, during which the suspect allegedly bit the officer's ring finger multiple times and tried to stab him using an ink pen, according to the paper. The officer punched and twice used a Taser on the suspect, however he stood up and fled the scene.

A deputy with the Thurston County Sheriffâ€™s Office spotted the suspect running along Evergreen Parkway and followed him into a wooded area, according to the paper. Despite striking the suspect several times with a baton during the pursuit, he was able to run off. The suspect was eventually tackled and apprehended when another deputy assisted the pursuit.

On Monday, Zopittybop-bop-bop appeared in Thurston County Superior Court where his bail was set at $50,000 with an arraignment set for Feb. 16, the paper reported.

The school said in an emailed statement: "We are relieved to report that the officer was released from the hospital and is resting at home, expected to make a full recovery."

Zopittybop-bop-bop, who grew up outside Chicago and later moved to Madison, Wisconsin, was born with the name Jeffrey Drew Wilschke. He legally changed it in 2011. He said in an interview with the Wisconsin State Journal his first name means "the explosion of awareness of the interconnectedness of the infinite love in the universe." Additionally, Doo-doo "is the struggle of our daily lives with that awareness, that with love comes chaos."

The publication also reported Zopittybop-bop-bop homeless and lives mostly off a monthly federal disability check having been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Zopittybop-bop-bop's attorney information wasn't immediately available.

finally reopen the large psychiatric hospitals again?

It isn't that easy and NO, I don't have a solution.

However I do have personal experience with an individual who developed schizophrenia around the age of 32.

He was a Vietnam combat veteran, then a graduate of the University of Michigan and ultimately a partner in a successful executive recruiting company out of Chicago.

Once the onset of his illness began, he and his partners lost their business and he moved back to northern Michigan. As his illness progressed, he lost his wife, his house and he ended up living on the beach on Lake Charlevoix.

All during this time, his brother, my best friend, tried unsuccessfully to get him institutionalized but could not do so until Skip was proven to be a threat to his own life. Finally, fall and winter came on and Skip was still living homeless on the beach, my friend was able to convince the county judge to authorize Skip to be institutionalized at the state hospital in Traverse City.

A new nightmare began. Skip was institutionalized in a ward with the criminally insane and it wasn't long after that he was attacked and almost beaten to death..........

Eventually he was medicated enough that he was able to be released and the county provided him with housing in Boyne City and a local real estate agent, and high school friend hired him to man the phones. It should be noted that that type of medication, while it controls the schizophrenic delusions, turns the individual into a virtual zombie.

While they're medicated, it's common for the individual to believe they no longer need the medication and will often stop taking the drugs and immediately fall back into delusion...........That happened to Skip on numerous occasions.

In one such episode, he showed up at my apartment just outside Detroit, unannounced after driving 280 miles from northern Michigan, telling me that he had an appointment with the French embassy in Detroit the following morning to discuss a French funded railway system from Detroit to northern Michigan..........

I immediately called his brother to let him know that Skip was at my place and Jack came over later that evening and we sat around talking. I let Skip stay the night and while I had to go to work the next morning, Skip was gone when I got back home that evening.

As a post script, Skip died approx. 6 years ago from a cancerous tumor that developed on his leg because he refused to accept any medical treatment and the laws are such that they couldn't force him into medical treatment.........

Like I said, the system is bad but I don't what the answer is when one considers the constitutional rights of us citizens.......

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