I was seeing this on the 11:00 news & wondering WTH was going on out there.
2 students report seeing a guy walking through (or maybe past, depending on which report) campus with a long gun.
No report of him threatening anyone with it, just walking.
Yet the campus (and some nearby public schools, and the school district offices) shuts down.
If someone were intending mischief, here he's done nothing illegal and gotten a wonderful reaction! Hey, do it again! More people will do it! [/sarcasm]
And what is this about not letting people out of whatever building they're in? Kidnapping, surely.
Then they find the guy they think was involved, find that it was an airsoft gun, arrest him, cuff & stuff him... then announce they'll see if he's done anything wrong.
:exclaim:
How about you work that out
BEFORE arresting the poor guy??
I doubt they could even say that it's DC, because he didn't do anything - it was the people who saw him who caused the problem, it was the campus authorities who shut everything down, he was just walking. (Again, nobody is saying that he was being threatening.)
Even if it were real, the peaceful exercise of a protected civil right is not a crime, not RAS of a crime.
ETA: news today reports that it was an air gun (no idea which is the accurate description), and the guy has been ticketed for DC.