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  • Hart Office Building standoff ends without bloodshed

    07/22/2008 8:27:26 AM PDT · by rightwingintelligentsia · 7 replies · 71+ views
    The Hill ^ | July 22, 2008 | Jordy Yager
    United States Capitol Police early Tuesday resolved a situation in the Hart Senate Office Building atrium area, where a man had been threatening for hours to plunge himself from the seventh floor. The unidentified man turned himself over to Capitol Police at approximately 2:00 am, according to police sources familiar with the event. For more than eight hours, the man had stood about 50 feet above the ground on the outside ledge of the glass wall overlooking the building’s atrium as negotiators continued to speak with him through a translator in Mandarin Chinese, according to Capitol Police. He had climbed...