January 25, 2021
MADISON, Wis. — Elroy “Roy” Stern was erroneously suspected of planning to “cause problems” on Inauguration Day by an anonymous informant. The unnamed tipster’s proof, it seems, is that Stern was at the spring protests against Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide lockdowns, according to an incident report.
As Wisconsin Spotlight reported, the 73-year-old Vietnam War veteran from Hustisford was working at his home Saturday when he was approached by three deputies from the Dodge County Sheriff’s Department. He said he got the sense he was being questioned as some kind of suspected domestic terrorist or insurrectionist, descriptors used by liberal politicians and news outlets in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.