Posted on 08/19/2021 1:23:10 PM PDT by LibertyWoman
The US Capitol was put in lockdown on Thursday while police negotiated with a man in a pick-up truck demanding airstrikes in Afghanistan to 'kick the Taliban's a**' and asking to speak to Joe Biden before he surrendered to police after a five hour standoff.
The man in the truck was 49-year-old Ray Roseberry from North Carolina. At 9.15am this morning, he drove his black pick-up truck onto the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress, opposite the Capitol building.
Congress is in recess so no elected officials are there but there are staffers who are still working in the Capitol buildings.
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His wife told NBC that he had never voted in his life before Trump ran for office and that he was distraught over Biden's election victory last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If I roll my eyes any more they’re going to get stuck
Foghorn Leghorn? I’ve reminded folks of many things, but this is a first! Haha. Thanks for the chuckle.
It was right here on FR. It didn’t mention tanerite said he claimed to have planted 5 bombs.
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