LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) – A Van Buren man was arrested on Wednesday morning after running his car into a newly placed 10 Commandments statue at the Arkansas State Capitol.
32-year-old Michael Tate Reed drove through the statue around 4:47 a.m. on Wednesday while filming on his cell phone and posting it to Facebook.
According to CBS affiliate 5NEWS, Reed has a history of similar behavior, destroying a Ten Commandments monument in Oklahoma. He was charged with destruction of state property or improvements, indecent exposure, making threatening statements, reckless driving and operating a vehicle with a revoked license back in 2014.
In 2015, Tulsa World reported that Reed stated his psychotic break was inspired by a Dracula film and that Michael Jackson's spirit was living inside meat. He also believed he was "the incarnation of an occult leader" and attempted to contact "Lucifer's high priestess he called Gwyneth Paltrow."
"I am so sorry that this [is] all happening and I wished I could take it all back," Reed said in a letter to Tulsa World.
Reed is being held in the Pulaski County Detention Center on charges of defacing an object of public interest, criminal trespassing and first degree criminal mischief.
The controversial 10 Commandments monument had been placed at the Arkansas State Capitol on Tuesday morning, less than 24 hours before it was destroyed.
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DrSmartron on June 28th, 2017 at 16:02 UTC »
Same thing happened in Oklahoma a few years back:
http://www.news9.com/story/26883623/man-accused-of-running-over-ten-commandments-monument-in-custody
Except in this case, the guy also took a whiz on it before smashing it.
EDIT: HOLY SHIT, IT'S THE SAME GUY!!!
SteroidAccount on June 28th, 2017 at 13:32 UTC »
This is the same guy who mowed down the 10 commandments monument in Oklahoma.
Here's the OK article.
TimeMachineToaster on June 28th, 2017 at 13:20 UTC »
Fuck it, we'll do it live!