https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5g...o-zip-tie-a-school-principal-over-covid-rules
A renowned anti-masker attempted to zip tie the principal of a school in Tucson, Arizona on Thursday after she asked a student to quarantine because of close contact with someone who tested positive for COVID-19. Kelly Walker, who owns Viva Coffee shop in Tucson, live streamed the entire incident on his business’s Instagram account, despite the fact that it was not his child at the center of the controversy.
In fact, Walker’s children don’t even attend the school in question, but are home schooled instead. The incident was triggered when Walker was contacted by the father of one of the children being asked to quarantine at Mesquite Elementary School, a decision taken in line with advice from Pima County Health Department, the school said. In the message, the father said he was going to the school to “raise hell” and people should be “prepared for me to go to jail.”
Walker decided to take it upon himself to address what he saw as an injustice, and in a video captured while he was driving to the school he called on others to join him at the elementary school to protest this decision. Once at the school, the video shows Walker, the child’s father, and an unidentified third man walking around the perimeter of the building, with the unidentified man holding zip ties. Walker holds the zip ties up to the camera and says that he plans on making a citizen’s arrest if the police won’t take action. Seconds after discussing his plan to make a citizen’s arrest, Walker says school officials “can’t take the law into their own hands” by quarantining school children.
“One of the other individuals, not the parent, brought flex cuffs with them to the front office when they entered the office and their demand was that quarantine was illegal and that if the child was not allowed to resume normal school that they would make a citizen’s arrest,” John Carruth, superintendent of Vail Unified School District, told local outlet KOLD News 13. When he finally gets inside the school, the coffee shop owner gets a chance to talk to the school’s principal, Diane Vargo, who is seen in the video listening patiently to Walker’s misinformation.