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The 33-year-old Van Buren man who broadcast himself over the Internet demolishing Arkansas' first Ten Commandments monument at the Capitol was acquitted Thursday on mental-health grounds.

Michael Tate Reed II had been charged with felony criminal mischief, which carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence.

Pulaski County Circuit Judge Chris Piazza's finding that Reed is innocent by reason of mental disease does not mean that he will be released immediately. He will remain in state custody for at least the next five years.

[/b]Reed has suffered from religious delusions for about half his life,[b] according to the psychiatric report presented in court.

According to that mental evaluation by state doctors, Reed has regularly acted out at the direction of various voices that he has believed to be divine, among them God, angels, saints and spirits, although some of the voices came from demons and false prophets.

"Mr. Reed has demonstrated a persistent belief that he serves a significant purpose, assigned to him by God, as an individual who is to bring about change and protect against the apocalypse and/or 'the genocide the country is trying to commit on us,'" the report states. "He has alternatively identified himself as the Prophet Elijah, the Greek Prince Daniel who will 'ride a white horse in the apocalypse,' and the Antichrist."
His religious beliefs also have included conspiracy material, some involving the illuminati, the Freemasons, the kingdom of Zion and government cover-ups, the report states.

[/b]Aside from destroying Ten Commandments markers in Oklahoma and Arkansas, Reed has spent weeks trying to walk to California, tried to cut off power to the city of Tulsa to protect Oklahoma from tornadoes,[b] and acted out what he described as a Hopi Indian prophecy in a Tulsa shopping mall, among other things, the report states.

The report's final determination: [/b]Reed has schizoaffective disorder, a condition that combines bipolar-like mood swings with schizophrenic-type hallucinations.[b]

The conclusion by state doctors that Reed was insane when he rammed the Arkansas monument was not surprising. It confirmed initial findings, reached in November, that Reed is mentally ill.

He also spent months in an Oklahoma hospital getting psychiatric treatment after he destroyed the Ten Commandments memorial at the Oklahoma Capitol in October 2014.

In both cases, Reed rammed his vehicle into the monuments, which were duplicates of a 6-foot, 6,000-pound marker at the Texas Capitol that commemorates the biblical laws of Judaism and Christianity.

When he drove his car into the Arkansas marker in June 2017, he streamed video of the crash over Facebook.

The Arkansas monument had been on the grounds less than 24 hours after being unveiled during a ceremony. It was replaced five weeks ago with a new marker. The replacement is identical to the original except for being shielded by four 3-foot-tall concrete posts to try to keep anyone else from using a car to topple it.

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