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Moments Before LAX Panic, Officers Confront Man Dressed as Zorro
;Los Angeles Times ^
| 8/29
| Brittny Mejia
Posted on 08/29/2016 2:32:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A man dressed as Zorro and carrying a plastic sword was confronted at gunpoint by police at Los Angeles International Airport Sunday, just moments before a false report of an active shooter sent passengers stampeding from multiple terminals.
Airport police responded to Terminal 7 on Sunday at about 8:40 p.m., following reports of a man dressed in black with a sword and wearing a mask, according to a statement from Los Angeles World Airports.
Believing the man was armed with a sword, police approached him with weapons drawn “out of an abundance of caution,” according to the airport.
A video on Twitter shows at least six officers confronting the man, who was sitting on a bench just outside the terminal where arriving passengers are picked up. He was ordered to lay face-down on the sidewalk as officers approached him.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
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The time of Zorro... the last time Los Angeles was worthwhile...
To: nickcarraway
If a guy can say he identifies as a woman, why can’t this guy be Zorro?
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posted on
08/29/2016 2:36:05 PM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
("Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small" - Theodore Dalrymple)
To: nickcarraway
Did he have a cape? Not Zorro if he didn’t have a cape.
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posted on
08/29/2016 2:36:10 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~TrumpÂ’s got this, Barry. Go back to your golf game.)
To: nickcarraway
Don Diego de la Vega: There is a saying, a very old saying: when the pupil is ready the master will appear.
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posted on
08/29/2016 2:36:34 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/29/2016 2:38:34 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Sans-Culotte
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posted on
08/29/2016 2:38:57 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~TrumpÂ’s got this, Barry. Go back to your golf game.)
To: nickcarraway
Shouldn’t the police call have been for an “active poker” or “active stabber”??
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posted on
08/29/2016 2:39:41 PM PDT
by
Drago
To: nickcarraway
Was he arrested by Sgt Garcia?
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posted on
08/29/2016 2:39:44 PM PDT
by
Ken H
(Best election ever!)
To: ColdOne
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posted on
08/29/2016 3:02:17 PM PDT
by
FreeInWV
To: nickcarraway
Meanwhile, the mastermind behind Zorro quickly used the diversion to get away...
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posted on
08/29/2016 3:09:19 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: FreeInWV
LOl....Zorro still has to have a cape to be Zorro. Just a plain fact! LOL
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posted on
08/29/2016 3:12:58 PM PDT
by
ColdOne
(poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~TrumpÂ’s got this, Barry. Go back to your golf game.)
To: nickcarraway
"Ha ha! Stupid LA cops could have Zorro right under their noses and would still let him get away. We were much more professional back when I
was on the force."
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posted on
08/29/2016 3:13:42 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: nickcarraway
He was on his way home from Comic Con.
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posted on
08/29/2016 3:16:59 PM PDT
by
American Quilter
(Hillary is an Unindicted Criminal.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
08/29/2016 3:17:13 PM PDT
by
blueplum
((March 11, 2016 - the day the First Amendment died?))
To: nickcarraway
Burka of the Middle East combined with the flair of our Southern border. Appropriate attire, indeed!
To: nickcarraway
Several years ago, several geniuses employed by the BATF, who were attending a conference at the on-campus hotel of the local state university, looked out a window and saw a guy walking down the street in a ninja outfit. They rushed outside, guns drawn, and wrestled the ninja to the ground. The campus cops showed up, found out the ninja was going to a Holloween party, and told the BATF guys to get lost.
To: nickcarraway
Does this mean that I won't be able to wear my Robotech:Macross VF-1 Valkyrie (in Battloid mode) cosplay costume to the airport anymore? Or maybe I shouldn't bring the gun that goes with it.
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posted on
08/29/2016 7:28:18 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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