Shawano Police Department Unabashedly Displays its
Racial Prejudice

Shawano Police Department On September 27, 2008, a Shawano resident stayed at the AmericInn, a hotel owned by SIST in Shawano. The reason and motive for his stay at the hotel are unknown. The customer promised to pay at checkout. Although it is not normal procedure to do so, since he was a local resident, the clerk agreed. When morning came, the customer snuck out the back door without paying for his room.

The hotel clerk called the police department. Many hours later, Officer Heidi Thaves came to the hotel. The clerk explained what had happened. The officer said it was a civil dispute but that she could see if the customer was at home. Supposedly, Thaves tried to call the customer and he was not at home. Nothing further was done on the matter.

Due to complete inaction by the police department, the hotel clerk contacted the District Attorney’s office. The clerk was informed by the District Attorney’s office that contrary to police opinion, the matter was not a civil dispute, as it was covered under a statute regarding ‘Defrauding an Innkeeper’.

The District Attorney’s Office advised the clerk to call the police department again. The hotel clerk called the Police Department and spoke with someone named Barb. She claimed that Thaves was the person the hotel clerk needed to talk to but that Thaves was on vacation for the next twelve days. When the clerk asked to speak with someone who was handling matters for Thaves in her absence, the clerk was told that lieutenant, Dan Mauel, was handling matters for Thaves but that he was also on vacation for several days.

Several days later, the hotel clerk called the police department and asked for Lieutenant Dan Mauel. Mauel claimed that when Thaves returned from vacation, Mauel would have Thaves discuss the matter with the hotel clerk and the District Attorney’s Office to determine if this was a civil matter or not. On October 16, 2008, Thaves called the hotel clerk claiming that she talked to District Attorney Greg Parker and that they determined that it was a civil issue since the customer obviously came with the intent to pay. If the hotel wanted to recover, they would have to sue the customer.

Without a scintilla of evidence that the customer had the intent to pay, the police department determines that he had an intent to pay and throws the matter out. Has the Shawano Police Department taken such a position for anyone else? Can you imagine if an SIST employee did the same thing to some other hotel in Shawano? They would have been arrested and charged within minutes. But here, the police drug their feet for three weeks and then come up with a bogus excuse for not being able to do anything. What about their activities just a couple of months ago when the knowingly assisted and abetted the demolition of one of SIST’s buildings, the Ponderosa, and remained available to ensure that SIST was deprived of its rights to its own property?

Then, on November 5, 2008, four people purportedly dressed in black broke the store front window on another property owned by SIST located at 153 South Main Street. Of course, in the great metropolis of Shawano, there is no way to track down the identity of these four thugs. Do anyone else’s windows get broken? No. Previous times when the windows were broken, it cost $8,000 to replace the window. This time, it is likely to cost SIST between $10 and $12,000 to replace the window. Given the history of the Shawano police department, it is likely they were sent by the police department with the knowledge of their boss and maybe with the knowledge of the mayor to further their goals of running SIST down financially which they have been working on endlessly for years.

The following day, an unidentified individual was lurking and hiding behind a sign located on another SIST property. When asked what he was doing, he reported that it was none of their business. Eventually the individual got into his car, ran a stop sign and headed toward the police department. Numerous calls about the incident went unanswered. Eventually, the mayor Lorna Marquardt’s son-in-law, George Lenzner, was dispatched He told the SIST representative that it was none of SIST’s business what the man was doing and refused to even file a police report. On the other hand, if the vehicles of SIST representatives are even stopped for minutes on the road in front of one of SIST’s properties, within minutes, the police are there ordering them to move, giving them citations, and threatening to tow their vehicles. This has occurred time and time again.

See Shawano Police Department in action here and here.

This is called justice in Shawano. It is time for the world to know the magnitude and extent of the disease of racial discrimination in the City of Shawano. The things that occur every day in Shawano, under the color of law, are beyond imagination. Until Shawano and other racist cities around the United States can be cured of their disease, called racial prejudice and discrimination, they should be ashamed to set foot in or open their mouth about any other country around the world.

First hand video of Shawano police in action.

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