Tell me this is another RTmark joke.
According to RTmark’s website, they illegally arrested my favorite art professor from CMU last week. If I get the story right, he called the cops to his house for a plain medical emergency, but when they saw his science-lab performance props, they got spooked and believed they were at the scene of a chemical-weapons accident. And then they called Homeland…well, just watch the video.
I can buy the initial arrest being just scared people making an honest mistake (I mean, an Ebay screwup during the 2001 anthrax murders sent the Pittsburgh cops to my house in search of a “suspicious” He-Man doll from New Jersey)…but the escalation to federal criminal investigation is pretty damn shady, considering that the guy’s been a respected activist and organizer for decades.
I really, really hope this is just a big, elaborate prank.
(new mail)
No, it’s not.