A Wikipedia conference in New York City took a bizarre turn Friday after an Ohio man draped in a sign declaring him to be an “anti-contact non-offending pedophile” got on stage with a gun and threatened to kill himself.

WikiConference North America 2025 kicked off at 9 a.m. at Civic Hall, a community center in Manhattan. During the opening ceremony, a man with a gun jumped onto the stage and pointed his weapon at the ceiling before being tackled by conference organizers, according to police and a Wikipedia spokesperson.

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The man, whom police did not identify, was later taken into custody, the Wikipedia spokesperson said.

The man wore a multicolored sign around his neck that read "anti-contact non-offending ped

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