Disorderly Conduct Charge for Handing Out Cardboard With “Gun” Printed On It

Ammoland ^ | 3 October, 2018 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Shorewood Hills Elementary School Principal Anu Ebbe, claims she is the victim of her own schools lack of security after she failed to take steps to lock down the school.

On 22 February, 2018, a lone masked man, wearing baggy clothing, buzzed for entrance to the Shorewood elementary school. Shorewood is a pricey suburb of Madison, Wisconsin.  Many of the local elite from the University of Wisconsin have their children enrolled in Shorewood Elementary.  It was an hour and a half after classes had started.

The man was buzzed into the school, with no identification, in 2.5 seconds. His face was masked.  He walked straight down the school hall. He was not challenged or stopped in any way. Classroom doors were open and no one showed concern.

He unmasked as he entered a classroom, and handed the teacher a small piece of cardboard with the word “gun” printed on it.  He told the teacher “You let a masked man into your school”.  He returned to the office and handed the principal, Anu Ebbe, another small piece of cardboard with the word “gun” printed on it, and gave her the same message. Then he left, all before anyone raised any alarm. A few hours later, Jonathan Fitzgerald was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Fitzgerald had filmed the incident with his

[marktwain]

Man convicted of disorderly conduct. Plea deal to avoid cost of trial. Police confiscated video of incident, did not release it until publicity blew over. Subpeona to school to get evidence. Evidence released by school seven months later.

[billorites]

It says, "Give me all your money I have a gub." What's a gub?

[BilLies]

Those that can do, those who can’t teach... or worse Administer at schools.

[shelterguy]

Those who can, do
Those who can’t, teach
Those who can’t teach, teach gym
Those who can’t teach gym, become administrators.

[Ancesthntr]

“Those who can, do
Those who can’t, teach
Those who can’t teach, teach gym
Those who can’t teach gym, become administrators.”

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... and those who show what a bunch of idiots the administrators are, go to jail.

[ThunderSleeps]

But but...wait a minute... You mean the “Gun free zone” sign didn’t stop him!? I’m shocked, shocked I say! :-/

[RandallFlagg]

The previous September, Fitzgerald's daughter, in second grade, had wandered out of her classroom, out of the school, and had gone missing for three hours. No one at the school noticed or reported the event. Fitzgerald reported the incident. He met with the principal and the teacher, in the principal's office the next day. He talked to the school principal, Anu Ebbe, in person, several times, about it and lax security. After Fitzgerald was arrested, a school official claimed, in a public meeting, that Fitzgerald had never complained to the school previously.

Explains a lot.
I wouldn't have gone about it this way, but he isn't wrong about the situation.
A week after Sandy Hook, I saw about 20 police vehicles sitting by an off-ramp on an interstate in Arvada, Colorado. Just sitting there at a speed trap.
When I got home, I called Arvada PD and chewed them out with, "There were just 20-plus kids erased in a school, and your officers are just lounging around trying to increase revenue?!"
Didn't take long for a lot of Colorado's law enforcement to start parking in school parking lots to do their paperwork. Just to have a presence there is a deterrent.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[HighSierra5]

Man,these liberals are easily fooled and spooked. Kinda fun to watch.

[Delta 21]

They would have been just as P.Oed at him if he had formally withdrew his child from their tutelage. Probably more so and further reaching for reducing the schools big fat check from the state. Now the case is officially over and none of the school admin got fired or even so much as docked in pay so all is good now.

[I want the USA back]

When people are arrested for not committing a crime, but because they remind people of a crime, then the country is no longer a free country.

[rawcatslyentist]

Well we obviously need a gazillion more laws! That’ll stop em!

[marktwain]

When people are arrested for not committing a crime, but because they remind people of a crime, then the country is no longer a free country.

It is punishment by process, and it happens a lot.

Very likely, the school administration lied in order to cover up their problems. Then the police were complicit in confiscating evidence that was contrary to what was being put out in public.

Local elites protect their own. The principal, as a minority woman, holds special crybully status.

[Romulus]

And those who can’t teach administrators teach teachers.

[sphinx]

The schools could start handing out free doughnuts to visiting police officers. That should do the trick.

[ridesthemiles]

This is about 4 miles from the farm I was raised on. My Paternal grandmother lived in Shorewood on Tally Ho . I remember the Christmas events at her house.

[Jack Hammer]

If she’s out of a job, she can come to my place and discipline me....

-JH (Dirty Old Man)

[hanamizu]

The schools could start handing out free doughnuts to visiting police officers. That should do the trick.

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Actually, not a bad idea. Schools in rural areas can offer a room for police/sheriff deputiies/state police officers to do paper work in. Have coffee and doughnuts. That way, every now and then there will be police officer at the school—but at random times. No one knows when an armed officer might be around.