He is perhaps most known for a miscontrued recording. Apparently, while everyone was worrying that October 9 would end in bloodshed, he and several other pastors prepared a tape calling for non-violence, gave it to the authorities on the condition that it be played only if tensions were escalating. As it turned out, however, tensions did not escalate and the authorities played the tape anyway. The demonstrators therefore thought that Schleinitz was on the side of the authorities. He and the others tried to get a letter of explanation printed in the newspapers, but they wouldn’t print it. So they had to wait until the October 23 prayer meeting in order to read the letter out loud. And then his name was cleared.