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Alt-Right Troll Ethan Schmidt-Crockett Sentenced For Harassing Mesa Wig Store

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Remember this clown, who trolled a wig store that required masks (they have required them for the last 10 years because they are a store for immuno compromised cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy). This troll said "loves" to harass people with cancer "because they're weak and vulnerable." The same guy stole a gay pride flag from PetSmart and Target, where he claimed he would “hunt” LGBTQ people. He also has advocated for putting LGBTQ people in concentration camps. Well, he was acting as his own lawyer, claiming he has suffered enough from backlash since all his income comes from his fan base on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, all who have banned him, along with Venmo, PayPal and CashApp.

Well, the judge didn't mess around with this prick who said to him "just a fine would be great". He got 60 days, and 3 years probation. Not nearly enough for this little prick, but if he does it again, he will be put away for a while.

What kind of a scum sucking asshole trolls cancer patients? Another one of Trump's "good people".

Alt-Right Troll Ethan Schmidt-Crockett Sentenced For Harassing Mesa Wig Store

“Sometimes people think the First Amendment means you can say and do whatever you want. It doesn’t,” Mesa Judge Raymond Schumacher said Thursday.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com


Ethan Schmidt-Crockett was wearing an untucked polo shirt, cargo pants, and gym shoes when he entered the courtroom on Thursday morning; his signature auburn mustache was curled into a handlebar. This wasn’t the first time Schmidt-Crockett has seen the inside of a courtroom.
The far-right troll was convicted of both trespassing in Scottsdale and an Extreme DUI in Chandler in 2021. He also has been arrested for violating his probation and failing to appear in court as recently as June 2022, according to court records.
This time, the anti-mask and anti-LGBTQ activist was called to answer for his actions in May 2021 when he videotaped himself entering private businesses in Mesa that advertised mask mandates and harassing the employees. Schmidt-Crockett claimed that he was there to “test their mask policy” to share with his hundreds of thousands of online followers.
One of Schmidt-Crockett’s victims, Sunny’s Hair and Wigs located at Baseline and Alma School roads, served the would-be provocateur with a restraining order in January 2022. The next day, Schmidt-Crockett violated the order and called the store.
 
Sunny’s Hair and Wigs caters largely to cancer patients who are immunocompromised, and employees testified that they’ve worn masks inside the business for no less than a decade.

Still, Schmidt-Crockett told his followers on Instagram that the store was “discriminating against” him because he had a “medical and religious exemption.”

In court Thursday, Schumacher asked the defendant to provide a doctor’s note saying he was exempt from wearing a mask. Schmidt-Crockett admitted he fabricated the medical exemption. He also failed to articulate in what way his religion permits defying the rules of a private business.

“Sometimes people think the First Amendment means you can say and do whatever you want,” the judge told Schmidt-Crockett. “It doesn’t.”

Schumacher again caught Schmidt-Crockett in his own web of lies after the defendant testified that he “accidentally called the store.”

“No, you were intentionally calling them,” Schumacher said. “You were calling them to harass them.”
 
"I fought the law. And the law won."
 
And I'm sure this is the sort of guy the anti-gun-control folks would have no problem seeing armed to the teeth.
 

Holy shit. What a deplorable human being.
 
If that MF ever thought he could harass my wife who has cancer because he thinks she is weak.....well, she could easily kick his ass into the ground.

Not that she would, she isn't violent, she is a grown up.
 
This is the same loser that would harass store employees if he saw anything in a store relating to gay people. He is also close with Kari lake. I guess scum does stick together.
 
pocket aces said:
This is the same loser that would harass store employees if he saw anything in a store relating to gay people. He is also close with Kari lake. I guess scum does stick together.
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Yes, he was allowed special access into one of her rallies.

If this guy so much as sneezes in the wrong place in the future, he is gonna become a long term resident of the graybar hotel.
 
A hate thread. Interesting.
 
IQ57 said:
A hate thread. Interesting.
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That's correct, a thread about the hate in a man's heart and how it led to his current legal troubles. If he hated his fellow Americans less, or wasn't stupid enough to turn his hate into criminal actions against them, he wouldn't be in his current pickle, and this hate thread wouldn't exist.
 
@IQ57, maybe you didn't read the article. So I will scrape it clean of advertising, graphics and links. READ IT.

The far-right troll was convicted of both trespassing in Scottsdale and an Extreme DUI in Chandler in 2021. He also has been arrested for violating his probation and failing to appear in court as recently as June 2022, according to court records.

This time, the anti-mask and anti-LGBTQ activist was called to answer for his actions in May 2021 when he videotaped himself entering private businesses in Mesa that advertised mask mandates and harassing the employees. Schmidt-Crockett claimed that he was there to “test their mask policy” to share with his hundreds of thousands of online followers.

One of Schmidt-Crockett’s victims, Sunny’s Hair and Wigs located at Baseline and Alma School roads, served the would-be provocateur with a restraining order in January 2022. The next day, Schmidt-Crockett violated the order and called the store.

He was charged in January 2022 with one count of interfering with judicial proceedings, a Class 1 misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of six months in jail or three years of probation, along with $2,500 in fines. But it would be nearly a year before Schmidt-Crockett would have to face Lady Justice.

On Thursday, Schmidt-Crockett hung his head as he approached Mesa Municipal Court Judge Raymond Schumacher to let him know he longer wanted a bench trial. Representing himself, Schmidt-Crockett pleaded guilty.

Schmidt-Crockett, who said his income is paid in donations from his massive social media following, told the judge that “just a fine would be great.” Instead, after testimony from witnesses, Schumacher slapped him with three years of probation and a suspended sentence of 60 days in jail.

“You crossed the line,” the judge said.

Sunny’s Hair and Wigs caters largely to cancer patients who are immunocompromised, and employees testified that they’ve worn masks inside the business for no less than a decade.

Still, Schmidt-Crockett told his followers on Instagram that the store was “discriminating against” him because he had a “medical and religious exemption.”

In court Thursday, Schumacher asked the defendant to provide a doctor’s note saying he was exempt from wearing a mask. Schmidt-Crockett admitted he fabricated the medical exemption. He also failed to articulate in what way his religion permits defying the rules of a private business.

“Sometimes people think the First Amendment means you can say and do whatever you want,” the judge told Schmidt-Crockett. “It doesn’t.”

Schumacher again caught Schmidt-Crockett in his own web of lies after the defendant testified that he “accidentally called the store.”

“No, you were intentionally calling them,” Schumacher said. “You were calling them to harass them.”

Schmidt-Crockett pleaded in court that he “didn’t single out” the business “in any way,” mere seconds after testifying that he went inside strictly because the shop had a sign on the door indicating that a mask was required to enter. Schmidt-Crockett has said he "loves" to harass people with cancer "because they're weak and vulnerable."
 
He is just trolling and baiting, again, don't feed him, he lives for attention, doesn't matter what kind.
 

Alabama Smith, another employee at the store, delivered tearful testimony about how the series of events drove her to seek therapy.

“I was getting hundreds of phone calls a day, death threats, while I’m just trying to help my community,” she said. “We were all afraid.”

Schmidt-Crockett has evaded jail time for his prior convictions, despite trolling other businesses like PetSmart, where he tried to remove a pride flag, and Target, where he claimed he would “hunt” LGBTQ people. He also has advocated for putting LGBTQ people in concentration camps.

“He can’t keep getting away with everything he’s doing,” Alabama Smith said through tears.
Ethan Schmidt-Crockett faced one misdemeanor count of interfering with judicial proceedings.

While Schmidt-Crockett is entitled to his opinions about the efficacy of masks and has a right to free expression, “his position caused harm both emotionally and to the business as a whole,” Assistant City Prosecutor Joshua Olson said. Of the employees at Sunny’s Hair and Wigs, he added, “They shouldn’t have to live in fear of going to work.”

Speaking in his own defense, Schmidt-Crockett identified himself as a “civil rights activist” and said his fallout from the events was near punishment enough. He was banned from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and also lost his privileges to use payment platforms such as PayPal, CashApp, and Venmo, through which he receives the donations that comprise his income, he said.

He claimed to be the victim of “character assassination” by the media, naming Fox 10 Phoenix and ABC 15 Arizona, because “they want to portray anti-maskers as bad people.” In a January 2022 interview with Phoenix New Times, he said the "fake news" slanders him "all the time."

Motioning to the witnesses Thursday, Schmidt-Crockett added, “I received tons of death threats also, just like them.”

But in the end, Schumacher said he couldn’t look past Schmidt-Crockett’s actions and sentenced him to three years on probation. If Schmidt-Crockett breaks the terms of his probation, he’ll spend 60 days in the slammer.

Schmidt-Crockett never apologized to any of the employees at Sunny’s Hair and Wigs on Thursday. “I was dumb. I shouldn’t have called them. It was my mistake," he said.

This is not the record of a free-speech advocate. It's the record of a two-bit punk trying to get himself arrested.
 
Hopefully his 60 days in jail will be 60 days he'll never forget! Even inmates who are the most hardened criminals despise "men" who do bad thing to innocent vulnerable people. He's a soulless piece of shit and deserved the worst jail has to offer.
 
My2Cents said:
Hopefully his 60 days in jail will be 60 days he'll never forget! Even inmates who are the most hardened criminals despise "men" who do bad thing to innocent vulnerable people. He's a soulless piece of shit and deserved the worst jail has to offer.
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Unfortunately, the 60 days were suspended...
 
BlueTex said:
Unfortunately, the 60 days were suspended...
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Sad. On the upside; maybe his sentence being suspended will embolden him to commit another atrocity. His low life kind can't seem to resist pushing the envelope. Almost wish he would; don't think the judge will be so lenient next time around.
 
My2Cents said:
Hopefully his 60 days in jail will be 60 days he'll never forget! Even inmates who are the most hardened criminals despise "men" who do bad thing to innocent vulnerable people. He's a soulless piece of shit and deserved the worst jail has to offer.
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He didn't get 60 days in jail. He got 60 days suspended, which means if he's done for anything else he'll get the 60 days.

I expect he'll be a good boy for a few years. His provocations are intended to get himself arrested and charged, because that will increase his bad boy fame on social media. But he's not looking to mix it with the real bad boys in the big house.
 
Ug make hammer said:
Representing himself and asking the judge for a fine suggests insolence. I doubt he'll stay out of trouble for three years.
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Like I said, his arrogance will hopefully do him in. He deserves to spend some quality time with the REAL bad boys!
 
My2Cents said:
Like I said, his arrogance will hopefully do him in. He deserves to spend some quality time with the REAL bad boys!
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If @Tlrmln had his way, Schmidt-Crockett would still be serving a life sentence for extreme DUI.
 
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