According to a warrant for his arrest, Elisha Gilbert, 30, crossed Canton Road near the intersection with Farm Ridge Road near the Cobb-Cherokee border and threw a large black object into traffic at 6:22 p.m. The object didn’t hit any vehicles, the warrant says.
Then things got weird.
When a police officer approached Gilbert, the man told the officer to “square off and come get some” and hurled obscenities at him, the warrant says. The officer reportedly told Gilbert to calm down and stop cursing and asked him if he had any weapons.
Police said Gilbert then pulled down his pants, exposing his genitals, and yelled “I will show you a weapon. I have one right here.”
The warrant points out that Gilbert “was referring to his penis.”
Police also said that when Gilbert was handcuffed, he gave the officer a fake name.
Gilbert is charged with terroristic threats, a felony, and using fighting words, giving a fake name, jaywalking and public indecency, all misdemeanors. He is being held at the Cobb County Jail without bail.
Cobb Police declined to comment on the case.
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Im his sister... Furthermore, he isnt homeless..
Secondly, throwing an object at a vehicle while moving, or occupied, constitutes Terr. Threats under the law, as well as making threats, which he was doing to the police officer.
Get your facts straight before you get on a soap box.
And if you try to tell me the cop was threatened by the guy when he pulled down his pants and yelled “I will show you a weapon. I have one right here.”...well, all I can say is that you must vote democrat.
We have a lack of reason from an MDJ reader. Reason, I say.
Another reading comprehension deficiency.
"(probably mentally ill)" = just guessing, but logic and knowledge of the circumstances of the homeless says it is a big possibility. The (trained)police know this as well.
Reading is fun. Practice makes it understandable.
Oh yeah, he's a terrorist all right. The cop has to show who is boss, so he over charges the heck out of a very disagreeable person (probably mentally ill) and puts the burden on him to punch his destitute way out of the bag to show that he is really not a terrorist felon. Great police work.
Of course, with all that "terroristic threatening" taking place, it is probably dumb luck that the cop did not just shoot the man to death.
I hope to God that the cop has the sense not to ever claim that he has prevented a terroristic attack.
I am very glad to see my taxes dollars are being used to hire bully?/inept? cops who are filling the new $110million jail with mentally ill people. Shouldn't we be putting more working fathers who have fallen behind in their child support because they have had their hours cut, or lost their second jobs, in jail instead?
We got brains on our team. Brains, I say.