An anti-Trump professor at Rutgers University was taken into custody by the New York Police Department and forced to have a psychiatric evaluation after making politically charged statements in class and on Twitter. After the election, gender studies professor Kevin Allred tweeted “If I see any Trump bumper stickers on the road today, my brakes will go out and I’ll run you off the road.”

In class, he had discussed both the Second Amendment and flag burning as a form of protest. He had posed the hypothetical question both in class and on Twitter of whether conservatives would be as committed to the Second Amendment if more white people were killed by gun violence. Apparently a student reported him to the Rutgers police who reported him to the NYPD who decided to do a "wellness" check.

Allred was shocked when the NYPD showed up at his home in Brooklyn, not to strictly to arrest him but to force him into a psychiatric evaluation. "They said, ‘Yes, you can refuse, but then we’ll take you by force,’” Allred told the New York Daily News. He also tweeted about it: "…for exercising my fucking first amendment rights. i'm being labeled a threat and put in a psych hospital."

The doctors at Bellevue Hospital where he was taken apparently thought it was as ridiculous as Allred did, and he was released after two hours. Later his Twitter account was suspended pending his removal of the "threatening" tweet.

Allred says his tweets were incendiary but in no way threats. He firmly believes he was targeted for his political views, telling the News, “I’m being labeled a threat and put in a psych hospital. Trump’s crackdown on free speech has absolutely begun.”