Hard to believe there's only one board member who's been speaking up about this, but that's one more than Evanston had. All in all, it's a shame Horton didn't take more of his friends with him from 65. It's also very unlikely any new administrator will shrink the bloated central office staff once they come in. 65 is probably saddled with his financial legacy.
Wow - I've been doing this so long now, I can tell you exactly who is going to go into those positions...
"Horton’s plan includes the creation of a Division of Equity and Inclusion. A number of the proposed positions listed under the division already exist in the district, but would be moved from other departments. New positions in the division include a chief equity officer, an office specialist, a director/coordinator of culture and climate, a facilities improvement manager and an executive director of student assignment. Those new positions total $866,000."
I want to comment on this - I hate these kinds of comments, they're incredibly toxic to our politics. Trump brought this garbage in and now both sides of the aisle just want to lock up their political opponents.
Did Horton commit low-level white collar crime? Yes
Should we be advocating for consequences? Yes
Should he spend hard time in prison for low level corruption? Probably not
Should he be fined and have his license removed? Yes
I should remind everyone that we had two elections since he was appointed and in both of those elections we re-elected a Board that was friendly to him. The real consequences should be in the ballot box.
So your timeline is inaccurate and misleading. The security was from appprox June 2021- July 2022 according to EvanstonNow. in the exit interview video he specifically says the reason he had to get the armed 24/7 security was because of this gun parent incident arrest (which therefor happened previous to June 2021 at the earliest). The parents arrest for emails which he never responded was nov 2021 (you were again sent the arrest records signed by 4 board members and Horton dated nov 2021 odd you are misrepresenting timelines here) after their kindergartener teacher appeared in the teachers complaining about toxic work environments went viral and then classes were canceled thanksgiving week after 18 months of school closures and a teachers planned walkout that week. They are unrelated events.
In addition all the videos that Horton posted on his YouTube are from 2020 after the wsj article about blacks returning to class first. Within a year and a half later from the security incident. Those letters are not related to his security detail june 2021 letters from March April 2020
You've lost me here on the timelines, also I don't think it matters very much. Are you the parent who sent the threatening emails and is responsible for the security detail? Would you care to elaborate more on the content of the threatening emails you sent?
I've seen this person comment on multiple posts. Please, Anonymous, post these "parents arrest emails" somewhere. You can use pdfhost.io and remain anonymous.
Khelghati forwarded the following emails: (this is one example of what they thought should be sent to police apparently)
"Superintendent Horton, I find it highly disturbing that your school district has chosen to utilize students race in determining eligibility for educational opportunities. Please reconsider your policy"
clearly you are anti 1st and 2nd amendment by how you moderate the comment section. Someone can have a foid card like when they turn 18 and get a voter card and still have never touched, fired, even seen, or bought a gun in their life. There is zero link between " someone showed up at my house with a gun threatening me" and citing that as a reason for security, and blurring it with and someone sent some emails who has a expired foid card so 6 months into that security that was to blame. Unless hes just lying and trying to justify it by any means necessary. your investigative stuff is great, but I find the way you try and discredit those trying to help your mission very disheartening and unwelcoming
You didn't answer my question. Are you are case #21009254 and #22003545? Are you the person with the expired FOID card that is likely the source of Horton's claims above?
The first amendment gives you no right to free speech on a private platform (this substack). You're always welcome to start your own substack.
-The timeline matters according to the content in this article about 24/7 armed security detail. Yet we aren't allowed to talk about guns in local schools those comments get censored.
You posted youtube letters from mid 2020 in this article as a reason for his security. Those videos are from AltX a private business which offered consultation sessions during the school year every Saturday - if he needed security due to those letters would he be profitting off them in a side businesses? His security was june 2021-july 2022 according to e.n. nearly a year and a half later - that is why I am saying its misleading the video to link it to security.
The police reports you mention are from nov 2021 - 6 months after security started, so its also misleading for you to say they must be what he is referring too. They are all separate incidents literally unrelated to his security that he states on video in this article only began due to a threatening parent with gun at his house ( which there appears to be zero proof of.)
Horton also claims in the video that the media covered this gun threat parent incident up (insinuating that he went to the media for them to cover it and they refused ). which is another big claim (and lie?). This coming from someone who said parents that want school to be open are KKK members
In yet another separate incident foiagras was notified that the district lawyer claimed to another lawyer that a parent showed up at his house in Oct 2022, however then the district lawyer (and evanstons victim advocate) stopped showing up to court in nov 22 (perhaps because they knew that claim was a lie?), and this was well after the security detail ended in july 2022. How many times have the board and superintndent screamed about the kkk and break-ins and threats etc, and what the most that happened so far is something wicked is coming for you and calling someone a pile of trash after 256 consecutive school days remote
I understand it was a challenging time as he/they like to say and use it as an excuse but truth and transparency matters which is why the timeline is important
As a pure hunch this is why was trying to suggest maybe foia his business partners addresses for police pure reports from the no bid article bc wonder if there’s a police report with a gun from something unrelated to education that he then used the school money to get his own security detail for. (again this is just a hunch).
Remember that parental involvement policy 8:110 requires a superintendent to engage in two way communication with parents as one of many duties, when he said the stuff that he did and made the decisions that he did like keeping schools closed for long in the name of racism instead of running and hiding behind a security he could have been had as many town meetings as they did for the 5th ward school, even if on zoom.
Last one but explain to me that with all the police reports that they file like above. ( I wonder why there wasn’t one and nothing happened when they accused in October 2022 of someone showing up at their house. just trying to help you out pointing out wrongs because was raised to do what’s right. Always. Because you were also sent court documents from the district lawyer who wanted that parent arrested for bringing up Cinderella and Christopher Columbus and children changing sexes. So I’m sure if someone showed up at their house they would do something about that since Cinderella so important. But these topics seem to be too sensitive to bring up here concerns about children. signing off.
threat definition: a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.
What was the subject line of that email posted with the ‘wicked’ threat ? “Asian discrimination at district 65.” Foiagras posted a recent Supreme Court article from a case brought by Asian Americans against Harvard for discrimination that cited lots about district 65. It could today be argued/debated that that parent was perhaps correct, and that Asian Americans (and maybe other demographics) are and were being discriminated against. And that district65 is/was wrong. Evanston now posted the email reports previously can’t find the link
Who are you, anonymous, to judge what is and is not a threat? You're not even willing to use your real name to comment!
You absolutely wrong that “wicked is coming for you next“ is not a threat. Ask people around you how they would feel if they received that email.
This has nothing to do with affirmative action, so stop talking about it. I've banned you many times from this blog for making everything about some national political issue. I will do it again. Please stop. You are the reason I've had to close comment sections after a few days.
So these are Government officials (some getting paid lots of money) and not private citizens. Without you posting the supreme court d65 affirmative action documents we would have likely never seen it. Those documents mention racial based affinity groups many times which were promoted in the PTA blasts and an evanston new council member is openly apart of today (Next Steps).
Asian americans not getting into harvard in favor of whites, and blacks being let into school first as it relates to the pandemic of racism (according to d65) are at least someone casually related, as they are both about discrimination and one uses evanston schools as example to make the case at a federal level.
similarly like with equity- but indirectly related -are repatriations which are now being paid out and currently going viral as a model for the whole country -in every publication you see they say it started locally in Evanston and is now national model. Couldn't equity be argued to be the same as the board instituted equity at d65 I believe around 2014? How many other school districts in the country were doing this at that time?
I don't understand how evanston can lead and when its all good its all we hear is about the innovation for decades. Well now Evanston maybe contributed to the decline, well lets just deflect once it goes bad and we can't talk about it and if you disagree with anything well you just get arrested cancelled banned or whatever. I'm sorry you feel threatened by people who are against equity (and truly for all people), and that being sent recent court decisions showing different programs in the name of equity prove discrimination is/was happening, and pointing it evanston schools districts link makes some not welcome. Signing off
Part of Dr. Horton’s plan from Day 1, I am convinced, was to tear at the fabric of our community by alleging deep seated pervasive racism, bigotry, heinousness. In hindsight it makes sense: doing so made him/his work all the more needed and valuable; it increased his value ($$), after all. For example, and almost on his literal Day 1, it struck me as odd that right out of the gate he interviewed with the Wall Street Journal (and not the New York or LA Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Trib, Sun Times, etc) talking about his antiracist agenda. Why the WSJ? Surely he --like all of us -- understood/understands that the WSJ audience skews more conservative; where his views might not be accepted with open arms.
Is it then surprising that in response to said interview he and the district received emails --many nasty and even vile? If we’re honest --the answer is no, not surprising; predictable in fact.
At the time, it also struck me that Dr. Horton did nothing to temper or push back on the notion being spread that the emails were local, symbolic of how racist and bigoted Evanston truly was. He was in a position to clarify, but he didn’t...and with that put us all on notice. What followed was many more examples of allegations made around local racism, bigotry, hate crimes, etc.--most of which were unfounded at worst or amounted to half truths at best (revealed by FOIAs made to the district, EPD,etc.) by Horton, BOE members and even those running for the BOE two elections ago and this last one.
The more racist we were, the more his services were needed, the more the Board had to “do the work,” and his warrior army had to defend this man and his team--who day and day out were facing down the literal devil. This was the narrative. And it was effective. I mean who’s laughing all the way to the bank now??!
I personally think he's just chasing the easy money and isn't really a true believer. I do think there are at least a few board members, though, who *are* true believers and also benefit financially/professionally from creating this division.
Agreed. During the public meetings at DeKalb, a white parent talked about Evanston's "race and gender-based curriculums" and how DeKalb wouldn't stand for that "divisive teaching." Horton replied that if the community doesn't want those elements in the education, they wouldn't be incorporated. Whaaaa?!?! I thought that was one of his central tenets as an "anti-racist leader." He didn't defend the D65 curriculum in the least.
I recognize the demographics of Dekalb are much different from Evanston (way fewer white students and overall poorer in Dekalb). I'd assume DeKalb wouldn't take on the LGBTQ+ portion of D65's school curriculum (given local politics/feelings among that community in Georgia), but completely abandoning the BLM curriculum so nonchalantly as a response from Horton took me a bit by surprise.
As someone else pointed out in another thread, I think he just says whatever he thinks the person he is talking to wants to hear in that immediate moment.
That Joyce Morley seems like she isn't interested in backing down with her disgust of Horton's hiring. It will be interesting to see how he navigates that. In Evanston he never had to deal with any division on the Board.
I personally don't think he is sophisticated enough to navigate that in a higher-visibility district. But we'll see.
Oh yeah. He’s a hustler --no doubt about it. But fomenting discord & distrust, using specific and targeted name-calling, asserting exaggerations as truth--it’s all a part of his formula.
On the Horton gun story, he says in the interview that an arrest was made. Absolutely there would be a public record of this. So it is pretty clear he is lying.
In the interview he says "there's a parent who came by my house, my home, threatening me with a gun, right? Like all of these things, um oh yeah they got arrested and they talked about can they get their license back..."
I'm not sure what he means by the license bit. A gun license?
Anyways, there was no gap between "someone came to my house threatening me with a gun" and "they got arrested."
But I agree with you that it is ridiculous for him to make those claims.
My impression of him throughout his time in Evanston was that he was not the most eloquent public speakers. I don't think he is the most politically savvy guy either. Which is something that might happen from someone who had never run a district before. (His lack of experience should have disqualified him from the job in the first place, but that is another story).
In the interview he could have just been engaged in (to use Trump's words) "bravado."
Curiously, I posted a comment on the Evanston Live TV Youtube link to the interview. Since Melika Gardner was advertising the video as revealing news relating to "a racist parent showed up to his home with a gun," she clearly understood it was a big deal.
My comment was not snarky, but rather something along the lines of "that is horrible to hear about the gun incident. When did it happen and who was arrested? This is a big deal and something the media should cover."
Yeah I posted a comment and it got deleted immediately. If you included a link, I think Youtube automatically deletes those instead of the creator, thinking that the link is spam.
Nice bit of Evanston history, especially the dinner table conversation about Emancipation Proclamation. I just got back from Gettysburg, PA ...
The term for Dr Horton is “conflict entrepreneur.” See Amanda Ridley’s excellent book High Conflict.
The next Superintendent has to be a true bridge builder 🤞
Horton's already eagerly proposing 10 million dollars of spending at the central office:
https://www.ajc.com/education/dekalb-superintendent-proposing-10m-restructuring-plan-at-district-office/VK32C3RVLZB33OSHUQUNENZSDI/
Hard to believe there's only one board member who's been speaking up about this, but that's one more than Evanston had. All in all, it's a shame Horton didn't take more of his friends with him from 65. It's also very unlikely any new administrator will shrink the bloated central office staff once they come in. 65 is probably saddled with his financial legacy.
Wow - I've been doing this so long now, I can tell you exactly who is going to go into those positions...
"Horton’s plan includes the creation of a Division of Equity and Inclusion. A number of the proposed positions listed under the division already exist in the district, but would be moved from other departments. New positions in the division include a chief equity officer, an office specialist, a director/coordinator of culture and climate, a facilities improvement manager and an executive director of student assignment. Those new positions total $866,000."
Maybe he'll take Terrance Little? He was another Horton Cabal hire.
He 100% will but Terrance has to resolve his lawsuit with Gary Schools firstl
Lock him up
I want to comment on this - I hate these kinds of comments, they're incredibly toxic to our politics. Trump brought this garbage in and now both sides of the aisle just want to lock up their political opponents.
Did Horton commit low-level white collar crime? Yes
Should we be advocating for consequences? Yes
Should he spend hard time in prison for low level corruption? Probably not
Should he be fined and have his license removed? Yes
I should remind everyone that we had two elections since he was appointed and in both of those elections we re-elected a Board that was friendly to him. The real consequences should be in the ballot box.
So your timeline is inaccurate and misleading. The security was from appprox June 2021- July 2022 according to EvanstonNow. in the exit interview video he specifically says the reason he had to get the armed 24/7 security was because of this gun parent incident arrest (which therefor happened previous to June 2021 at the earliest). The parents arrest for emails which he never responded was nov 2021 (you were again sent the arrest records signed by 4 board members and Horton dated nov 2021 odd you are misrepresenting timelines here) after their kindergartener teacher appeared in the teachers complaining about toxic work environments went viral and then classes were canceled thanksgiving week after 18 months of school closures and a teachers planned walkout that week. They are unrelated events.
In addition all the videos that Horton posted on his YouTube are from 2020 after the wsj article about blacks returning to class first. Within a year and a half later from the security incident. Those letters are not related to his security detail june 2021 letters from March April 2020
You've lost me here on the timelines, also I don't think it matters very much. Are you the parent who sent the threatening emails and is responsible for the security detail? Would you care to elaborate more on the content of the threatening emails you sent?
I've seen this person comment on multiple posts. Please, Anonymous, post these "parents arrest emails" somewhere. You can use pdfhost.io and remain anonymous.
Khelghati forwarded the following emails: (this is one example of what they thought should be sent to police apparently)
"Superintendent Horton, I find it highly disturbing that your school district has chosen to utilize students race in determining eligibility for educational opportunities. Please reconsider your policy"
https://evanstonnow.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/EPD-1500-McDaniel-reports.pdf
part of evidence said go tax northwestern after board sent email calling Evanston horrible and needing money from senior living developments
https://www.district65.net/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=275&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=12259&PageID=
I see now. Are you are case #21009254 and #22003545? Are you the person with the expired FOID card that is likely the source of Horton's claims above?
clearly you are anti 1st and 2nd amendment by how you moderate the comment section. Someone can have a foid card like when they turn 18 and get a voter card and still have never touched, fired, even seen, or bought a gun in their life. There is zero link between " someone showed up at my house with a gun threatening me" and citing that as a reason for security, and blurring it with and someone sent some emails who has a expired foid card so 6 months into that security that was to blame. Unless hes just lying and trying to justify it by any means necessary. your investigative stuff is great, but I find the way you try and discredit those trying to help your mission very disheartening and unwelcoming
You didn't answer my question. Are you are case #21009254 and #22003545? Are you the person with the expired FOID card that is likely the source of Horton's claims above?
The first amendment gives you no right to free speech on a private platform (this substack). You're always welcome to start your own substack.
-The timeline matters according to the content in this article about 24/7 armed security detail. Yet we aren't allowed to talk about guns in local schools those comments get censored.
You posted youtube letters from mid 2020 in this article as a reason for his security. Those videos are from AltX a private business which offered consultation sessions during the school year every Saturday - if he needed security due to those letters would he be profitting off them in a side businesses? His security was june 2021-july 2022 according to e.n. nearly a year and a half later - that is why I am saying its misleading the video to link it to security.
The police reports you mention are from nov 2021 - 6 months after security started, so its also misleading for you to say they must be what he is referring too. They are all separate incidents literally unrelated to his security that he states on video in this article only began due to a threatening parent with gun at his house ( which there appears to be zero proof of.)
Horton also claims in the video that the media covered this gun threat parent incident up (insinuating that he went to the media for them to cover it and they refused ). which is another big claim (and lie?). This coming from someone who said parents that want school to be open are KKK members
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2021/01/20/district-65-superintendent-devon-horton-says-sentence-in-roundtable-article-mischaracterized-email-exchange-with-parents/
In yet another separate incident foiagras was notified that the district lawyer claimed to another lawyer that a parent showed up at his house in Oct 2022, however then the district lawyer (and evanstons victim advocate) stopped showing up to court in nov 22 (perhaps because they knew that claim was a lie?), and this was well after the security detail ended in july 2022. How many times have the board and superintndent screamed about the kkk and break-ins and threats etc, and what the most that happened so far is something wicked is coming for you and calling someone a pile of trash after 256 consecutive school days remote
I understand it was a challenging time as he/they like to say and use it as an excuse but truth and transparency matters which is why the timeline is important
As a pure hunch this is why was trying to suggest maybe foia his business partners addresses for police pure reports from the no bid article bc wonder if there’s a police report with a gun from something unrelated to education that he then used the school money to get his own security detail for. (again this is just a hunch).
Remember that parental involvement policy 8:110 requires a superintendent to engage in two way communication with parents as one of many duties, when he said the stuff that he did and made the decisions that he did like keeping schools closed for long in the name of racism instead of running and hiding behind a security he could have been had as many town meetings as they did for the 5th ward school, even if on zoom.
So you are saying that the private security is in response to *your* threatening emails instead of the random ones from 2020?
Last one but explain to me that with all the police reports that they file like above. ( I wonder why there wasn’t one and nothing happened when they accused in October 2022 of someone showing up at their house. just trying to help you out pointing out wrongs because was raised to do what’s right. Always. Because you were also sent court documents from the district lawyer who wanted that parent arrested for bringing up Cinderella and Christopher Columbus and children changing sexes. So I’m sure if someone showed up at their house they would do something about that since Cinderella so important. But these topics seem to be too sensitive to bring up here concerns about children. signing off.
Which of those emails did you send?
How would YOU feel getting an email that says “something wicked is coming for you”?
threat definition: a statement of an intention to inflict pain, injury, damage, or other hostile action on someone in retribution for something done or not done.
I don’t know that I’ve seen any threat to date. Saying something “wicked is coming for you next“ arguably is not considered a threat as it was in context to a superintendent saying sexual orientation and skin color affect who gets to go to school first after remote learning. which many would debate was/is unconstitutional. https://www.wsj.com/articles/can-school-be-antiracist-a-new-superintendent-in-evanston-ill-has-a-plan-11601982001
What was the subject line of that email posted with the ‘wicked’ threat ? “Asian discrimination at district 65.” Foiagras posted a recent Supreme Court article from a case brought by Asian Americans against Harvard for discrimination that cited lots about district 65. It could today be argued/debated that that parent was perhaps correct, and that Asian Americans (and maybe other demographics) are and were being discriminated against. And that district65 is/was wrong. Evanston now posted the email reports previously can’t find the link
Who are you, anonymous, to judge what is and is not a threat? You're not even willing to use your real name to comment!
You absolutely wrong that “wicked is coming for you next“ is not a threat. Ask people around you how they would feel if they received that email.
This has nothing to do with affirmative action, so stop talking about it. I've banned you many times from this blog for making everything about some national political issue. I will do it again. Please stop. You are the reason I've had to close comment sections after a few days.
So these are Government officials (some getting paid lots of money) and not private citizens. Without you posting the supreme court d65 affirmative action documents we would have likely never seen it. Those documents mention racial based affinity groups many times which were promoted in the PTA blasts and an evanston new council member is openly apart of today (Next Steps).
Asian americans not getting into harvard in favor of whites, and blacks being let into school first as it relates to the pandemic of racism (according to d65) are at least someone casually related, as they are both about discrimination and one uses evanston schools as example to make the case at a federal level.
similarly like with equity- but indirectly related -are repatriations which are now being paid out and currently going viral as a model for the whole country -in every publication you see they say it started locally in Evanston and is now national model. Couldn't equity be argued to be the same as the board instituted equity at d65 I believe around 2014? How many other school districts in the country were doing this at that time?
I don't understand how evanston can lead and when its all good its all we hear is about the innovation for decades. Well now Evanston maybe contributed to the decline, well lets just deflect once it goes bad and we can't talk about it and if you disagree with anything well you just get arrested cancelled banned or whatever. I'm sorry you feel threatened by people who are against equity (and truly for all people), and that being sent recent court decisions showing different programs in the name of equity prove discrimination is/was happening, and pointing it evanston schools districts link makes some not welcome. Signing off
Part of Dr. Horton’s plan from Day 1, I am convinced, was to tear at the fabric of our community by alleging deep seated pervasive racism, bigotry, heinousness. In hindsight it makes sense: doing so made him/his work all the more needed and valuable; it increased his value ($$), after all. For example, and almost on his literal Day 1, it struck me as odd that right out of the gate he interviewed with the Wall Street Journal (and not the New York or LA Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Trib, Sun Times, etc) talking about his antiracist agenda. Why the WSJ? Surely he --like all of us -- understood/understands that the WSJ audience skews more conservative; where his views might not be accepted with open arms.
Is it then surprising that in response to said interview he and the district received emails --many nasty and even vile? If we’re honest --the answer is no, not surprising; predictable in fact.
At the time, it also struck me that Dr. Horton did nothing to temper or push back on the notion being spread that the emails were local, symbolic of how racist and bigoted Evanston truly was. He was in a position to clarify, but he didn’t...and with that put us all on notice. What followed was many more examples of allegations made around local racism, bigotry, hate crimes, etc.--most of which were unfounded at worst or amounted to half truths at best (revealed by FOIAs made to the district, EPD,etc.) by Horton, BOE members and even those running for the BOE two elections ago and this last one.
The more racist we were, the more his services were needed, the more the Board had to “do the work,” and his warrior army had to defend this man and his team--who day and day out were facing down the literal devil. This was the narrative. And it was effective. I mean who’s laughing all the way to the bank now??!
I personally think he's just chasing the easy money and isn't really a true believer. I do think there are at least a few board members, though, who *are* true believers and also benefit financially/professionally from creating this division.
Agreed. During the public meetings at DeKalb, a white parent talked about Evanston's "race and gender-based curriculums" and how DeKalb wouldn't stand for that "divisive teaching." Horton replied that if the community doesn't want those elements in the education, they wouldn't be incorporated. Whaaaa?!?! I thought that was one of his central tenets as an "anti-racist leader." He didn't defend the D65 curriculum in the least.
I recognize the demographics of Dekalb are much different from Evanston (way fewer white students and overall poorer in Dekalb). I'd assume DeKalb wouldn't take on the LGBTQ+ portion of D65's school curriculum (given local politics/feelings among that community in Georgia), but completely abandoning the BLM curriculum so nonchalantly as a response from Horton took me a bit by surprise.
As someone else pointed out in another thread, I think he just says whatever he thinks the person he is talking to wants to hear in that immediate moment.
That Joyce Morley seems like she isn't interested in backing down with her disgust of Horton's hiring. It will be interesting to see how he navigates that. In Evanston he never had to deal with any division on the Board.
I personally don't think he is sophisticated enough to navigate that in a higher-visibility district. But we'll see.
Oh yeah. He’s a hustler --no doubt about it. But fomenting discord & distrust, using specific and targeted name-calling, asserting exaggerations as truth--it’s all a part of his formula.
I'd like to believe this narrative, but I never got the sense he was sophisticated enough to hatch such a plan.
I know he's got a PhD in "Educational Leadership" from the highly competitive Chicago State, but still...
On the Horton gun story, he says in the interview that an arrest was made. Absolutely there would be a public record of this. So it is pretty clear he is lying.
I do think there was an arrest related to the email harassment but the address on that was not his home address, it was the School District HQ.
In the interview he says "there's a parent who came by my house, my home, threatening me with a gun, right? Like all of these things, um oh yeah they got arrested and they talked about can they get their license back..."
I'm not sure what he means by the license bit. A gun license?
Anyways, there was no gap between "someone came to my house threatening me with a gun" and "they got arrested."
But I agree with you that it is ridiculous for him to make those claims.
My impression of him throughout his time in Evanston was that he was not the most eloquent public speakers. I don't think he is the most politically savvy guy either. Which is something that might happen from someone who had never run a district before. (His lack of experience should have disqualified him from the job in the first place, but that is another story).
In the interview he could have just been engaged in (to use Trump's words) "bravado."
Curiously, I posted a comment on the Evanston Live TV Youtube link to the interview. Since Melika Gardner was advertising the video as revealing news relating to "a racist parent showed up to his home with a gun," she clearly understood it was a big deal.
My comment was not snarky, but rather something along the lines of "that is horrible to hear about the gun incident. When did it happen and who was arrested? This is a big deal and something the media should cover."
Guess what? She deleted the comment.
Yeah I posted a comment and it got deleted immediately. If you included a link, I think Youtube automatically deletes those instead of the creator, thinking that the link is spam.