Or a team of Secret Service men could have at least flipped the lock on the front door.
Posted on 09/19/2014 9:06:25 PM PDT by lowbridge
A man jumped over the fence of the White House on Friday and made it through the front door before officers managed to apprehend him, just minutes after President Barack Obama had departed, the Secret Service said.
The intruder sprinted toward the White House after leaping over the fence and ignored commands from officers to stop, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said. He was ultimately apprehended just inside the North Portico doors, the grand, columned entrance that looks out over Pennsylvania Ave.
Donovan said the man appeared to be unarmed to officers who spotted him jumping the fence, and a search of the suspect turned up no weapons. The suspect, identified as Omar J. Gonzalez, 42, of Copperas Cove, Texas, was placed under arrest and transported to nearby George Washington University Hospital after complaining of chest pain.
Although it's not uncommon for people to hop the White House fence, they're typically apprehended before they can get very far. Friday's incident was likely to prompt a renewed look at security procedures at one of the most highly protected buildings in the world.
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No. This article isnt over 5 years old.
He heard that this White House doesn't care about fences.
WTF?
He should’ve been dead before he made it past the first row of plants...
Dressed as Pikachu?
A fence around the White Hut but not around America. Hmmmmm.
Fence jumper at the White Hut apprehended but the fence jumpers at the border are met by the “Border Patrol” Welcome Wagon Police who change their diapers and bake them birthday cakes. Hmmmm. Sumpin’ ain’t right.
I was hoping someone would post this.
He jumps the fence and sprints into the White House, and much of it is therefore evacuated.
It just isn’t the way that I thought things worked there.
Yep, a woman charges her car toward the WH and dies, and this idiot makes it to front door and lives!
It was an act of love.
Just have him chant that mussie thing asking for mercy and sanctuary.....Obunga must grant it as a muzzie.
Whatever happened to that young, Leftist punk that shot at the White Hut a year or two ago?
Now the DHS must find him a home, college education, ‘three hots and a cot’ and free medical care for the rest of his life.
If he was a leftist, he is probably running free ... otherwise, I have no idea. Good question though.
Twice!
Here is the headline info with date-
Home> Politics
Fence-Jumper Makes It Into the White House
WASHINGTON — Sep 20, 2014, 12:00 AM ET
By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press
Are they lying?
Maybe there was less concern with the guards knowing that the president was not in the building.
Or a team of Secret Service men could have at least flipped the lock on the front door.
Post of the week!
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> Omar J. Gonzalez
He heard that this White House doesn’t care about fences.
Fences are no problem for Latinos. They have much experience at our borders.
He just wanted to be closer to his god.
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