he now continues to want to stand behind me with his hand on his gun and i feel threatened by that. following a confrontation with sheriff s deputies, john delaney allegedly issued a threat to the life of sedgwick county sheriff jeff easter. he was arrested soon after. but was able to bond out of jail a day later. [ bleep ]. that freedom was short-lived. you just get to a point to where it s you can t just keep fighting them. they just keep [ bleep ]. [ bleep ], [ bleep ]. when he was arrested for allegedly threatening sheriff easter, delaney was already on probation in nearby reno county for failing to register as a sex offender. because i have probation there, the minute they charged me here with a criminal threat it was a violation of my probation. so once they violated my probation, i have to go in front of the judge for that. lean up against the counter. put your right leg back towards me. because he lives locally,
it was brutal. i don t know how else to describe it. it was horrible. worst thing i have ever been through in my life. my brother and i were close. he s my only brother. i have no other siblings. my sister-in-law and his wife was devastated. my mom was devastated. it actually led to her death three years later because of the stress of it. today, sheriff easter keeps a memorial in his office made up of kevin s personal effects. in the first years after his brother s death, he says he couldn t have done that. i had a lot of stuff that i couldn t look at, i couldn t look at his picture for almost ten years because it was just just reminded me of bad times. so i had a lot of the stuff, his uniform, i kept in my closet. i finally came to the point i had kind of overcome my grief so i hung his stuff up. always behind me, never in front of me, because i don t want to be reminded of it every day. i want to remember the good things. we all knew that this could happen. we all knew the po
there every day but never really thought that it would happen. though he no longer patrols the streets like he used to, sheriff easter is still not shielded from danger. go into pod 10. bed 18. john delaney was recently arrested for allegedly threatening his life. basically all they have is some news reporter saying that i said something about ak-47s and everything else. it seems like they re trying to make something out of nothing. delaney has pled not guilty and is awaiting trial. but today hopes to bond out with the help of his brother brendan. right now we got the money put together. let s get me out of here and let s move on. well, you got to promise me you got to keep your head on straight this time. hey, it s on straight, bro. so what, within the next hour or so you guys should be up here? yeah. ask your feelings about sheriff easter now? they ain t changed but i ll keep my distance. i ll let the attorneys handle it.
to jeff easter. there s no reason to have your hand on your gun! next, they posted their video on youtube and the following day, called local news media but had no luck generating interest. i made the statement if it ain t news, it don t get people s attention when you steal kids out of people s schools, then maybe it will be news when a bunch of citizens get together and march on the courthouse and demand the sheriff and d.a. be arrested. but one reporter called the sheriff s office with a different account of how delaney acted. sheriff easter was at a conference when he heard the news. i get a phone call probably about 3:30 saying that mr. delaney had threatened me, that he was going to go get his shotgun, his ak-47, his militia, and come up here to the sheriff s office and drag me out of the office and arrest me. it s our right to form a militia and put a corrupt government out. delaney, who was located and arrested by sheriff s deputies about 45 minutes later, denies
deputies continued. and he now continues to want to stand behind me with his hand on his gun, and i feel threatened by that. delaney called 911, apparently because he felt he was in danger. i need other deputies out here who are not currently here who can deal with this situation. stay on the line with me. thank you. we did call for supervisors to contact you. no, this is beyond that. i have an officer who is threatening with his body language and his actions. no, but i fear for my safety. let them know i m a law-abiding citizen. i m on the up and up. what reason does this man have to have his hand on his firearm while he s talking to me in front of an elementary school? delaney and his brother eventually left the school without incident. but they decided to take their complaints directly to sheriff easter, whose office is located in the jail complex. i walk in the door, give my i.d. to the deputy, they told us we would not be allowed to talk