The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has cited a person for disorderly conduct who is accused of spitting on the table of Turning Point Action students and leaders who were organizing on campus.
On Monday, October 13, “Turning Point Action was staffing an information table and registering voters on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus when an individual spat on their table,” UWM’s spokesperson Jodie L. Tabak told Wisconsin Right Now.
“UWM Police responded, and the individual has been cited for disorderly conduct under UWS 18. The university is reviewing the matter to determine if other action is warranted.”
Wisconsin Right Now had asked UWM, “Can you confirm that a student was cited for spitting on or near Turning Point students at UWM on Monday? If so, what is the name of the defendant(s) and the charges?”
UWM did not release the suspect’s name or whether they are a student. Wisconsin Right Now also asked UWM Police Chief Brian Switala for that information and whether he thinks there is enough security to protect Turning Point students and representatives on UWM’s campus. Switala told WRN to file an open records request.
However, Milwaukee County GOP chairman Hilario Deleon, who witnessed the incident, showed WRN a video that he said shows the person in question.
“I noticed an individual student was walking very fast and making a beeline to the table from behind,” he said. “Seeing this, I immediately started to walk back to the table to try and make sure they were not going to do what I thought would be flipping the table or knock the materials and buttons off.”
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Instead, “the student stopped from a small distance and spat only once at the table and at my fellow Turning Point colleagues,” said Deleon. “There were other students who were around the table who we were having conversations with. Thankfully, no spit landed on the table or on anyone, but people were standing in the area where the spit could have landed on them.”
He said he ran to get a video of the student as the person was walking away. Deleon and a UWM student then informed UWM police. “Later in the day, the officers had contacted us and they informed us that they found the spitter and they talked to the individual, and the individual is being reported to the dean of students and that they received a citation.”
Deleon alleged that “according to the officer, it seemed that the student did this due to some issue of transgender rights. At no point did this individual come up and have an actual open conversation with anyone at the table. This was not a provoked reason for the person to do this, and, at the end of the day, spitting on or at people is assault.”
He added: “Complaints are being filed to the school by students who were present against the student. The UW-Milwaukee police were very helpful and tracked down the student very quickly being that it is a large campus.”
We also spoke with Sam Krieg, who was another witness to the incident. He is a Turning Point field representative and the Ozaukee GOP second chair. “We were sitting at the Golda Meir Library,” he said. Krieg is a recent graduate of UWM, and he said that two current students were also at the table.
At first, he said, “We had a group of seven or eight liberal students having a peaceful conversation.” He said some students engaged with them respectfully, creating back-and-forth moments like those Charlie Kirk championed on campuses.
He said that “someone bolted up between us and just spit at us. It freaked us out.” He said Deleon got a video of the person.
Turning Point filed a police report. He accused the university of seeming more concerned about the tabling rules than the incident.
Krieg noted, “Being on campus all day and called a fascist and a whore didn’t really phase me. That’s the liberal experience.”
He said another student “heckled us as he walked by. He pretended to jerk off on us.”
But he said they “had a lot of good responses,” too. They registered voters and signed students up for the club.
It should be noted that UWM is the campus that allowed a large anti-Israel encampment on public property for days last spring.
