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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.
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