{"id":6724,"date":"2025-10-17T18:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6724\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:20:11","slug":"nyc-wikipedia-conference-halted-when-non-offending-pedophile-storms-stage-points-gun-at-own-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/6724\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Wikipedia conference halted when &#8216;non-offending pedophile&#8217; storms stage, points gun at own head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Wikipedia conference in Manhattan descended into chaos Friday morning when an unhinged Ohio man jumped on stage and pointed a gun at his own head.<\/p>\n<p>Connor Weston \u2014 who had a multicolored banner draped over his shoulders and a sign around his neck with the words \u201cANTI-CONTACT NON-OFFENDING PEDOPHILE\u201d \u2014 was tackled and disarmed by WikiConference staff before being taken into custody by police, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>He was detained at the conference, which was hosted at Union Square\u2019s Civic Hall. He is awaiting charges at the NYPD\u2019s 9th Precinct. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37410436\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/twitter-photo-connor-weston-ohio-113646136.jpg\" alt=\"Connor Weston of Ohio.\" class=\"wp-image-37410436\"  \/>Police say Connor Weston of Ohio stormed the NYC Wikipedia conference stage and pointed a gun at his own head. ConnorWestonDay<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37410434\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/twitter-photo-connor-weston-ohio-113646137.jpg\" alt=\"Connor Weston holding a flag that reads &quot;ANTI-CONTACT NON-OFFENDING PEDOPHILE&quot;.\" class=\"wp-image-37410434\"  \/>Weston had a banner proclaiming himself an \u201canti-contact non-offending pedophile.\u201d ConnorWestonDay<\/p>\n<p>Weston, from Dayton, had registered for the conference, which was being held in New York this year to celebrate the city\u2019s 400th anniversary,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wikiconference.org\/wiki\/2025\/Main_Page\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to the event page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In a late June post on X, he explained that he is \u201cfundamentally against adult\/minor relations because I know that they are harmful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any \u2018urges\u2019 that I have to control, just like how most straight men don\u2019t have the urge to rape every woman they meet,\u201d he wrote. \u201cPedophilia is not a choice. I can choose to not harm minors, but I cannot choose to stop being attracted to them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Wikipedia conference in Manhattan descended into chaos Friday morning when an unhinged Ohio man jumped on stage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4542,57,9,56,63,65,64,6027,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-6724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-guns","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-pedophiles","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}