Cops Negotiating With Deranged MAGA Supporter Livestreaming Capitol Bomb Threat
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Via: tessylo • 5 years ago • 65 commentsBy: Justin Rohrlich, Zoe Richards, Adam Rawnsley, The Daily Beast
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Cops Negotiating With Deranged MAGA Supporter Livestreaming Capitol Bomb Threat
Federal authorities were trying to negotiate with a Trump supporter who parked his truck outside the Library of Congress on Thursday and made bomb threats while livestreaming anti-government rants on Facebook.
At about 9:15 a.m., Capitol police responded to reports of the black pickup truck parked on a sidewalk, mere feet from the Capitol and Supreme Court. The driver told police that he had a bomb and a detonator in his hand, prompting the immediate evacuation of surrounding buildings, U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said in a media conference.
“My negotiators are hard at work trying to have a peaceful resolution to this incident,” he said adding that officers were in communication with the suspect but no motive had been identified. “We do have a possible name and identity of the suspect.”
Manger would not disclose the suspect’s identity but CBS, MSNBC and WUSA9 cited law enforcement sources identifying him as Floyd Ray Roseberry, 49, from Grover, North Carolina.
In the video, the man holds a metal container of what he claims is tannerite, a binary explosive compound popular with firearms enthusiasts for its ability to detonate by gunfire. The man seen in the video matches the description and location of a photograph posted to Twitter by a passerby who wrote that the picture was taken while “casually seeing witnessing a bomb threat on the way to class.”
The man identified himself in the livestream videos and on Facebook as a Trump supporter who believes the Democrats must “step down.”
Old videos on his Facebook page show he participated in at least one rally to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. On Nov. 14, he uploaded multiple videos from a “Million MAGA March” in Washington, D.C.
“I love this land,” the man said in one of his livestream videos on Thursday, which was reviewed by The Daily Beast before it was removed. “We got a few options here, Joe. You shoot me, two-and-a-half blocks go with it. And then you’re talking about revolution? The revolution’s on. It’s here, it’s today. Told my wife I’d be home by Sunday. I’m looking for all my other patriots to come out and help me. Cause I got it standing. I got the foundation built, people.”
The man said he had a wife and two kids, but that they didn’t know he was there.
Citing law enforcement sources, MSNBC reported that the man was negotiating with police by writing messages on a whiteboard. Police couldn’t immediately confirm that the bomb was in fact operable or that he had a detonator.
In the video, the man indicated several times that there were four other explosives, “sittin’ around this town,” but that he didn’t know where they were because “we all came in different ways.”
What looked like a bomb can be seen in his lap when he turned the camera to his face at one point. He claimed his toolbox is full of ammonium nitrate.
“When this bomb goes off there's gonna be four more right behind it, and then the patriots are gonna come, because you don’t know where them four are sitting one of them might be sitting at your backdoor—better, better talk to me, Joe,” he said at one point, referring to President Joe Biden, who he appeared to be speaking to throughout the rambling videos.
Throughout the videos he expressed anger about the chaos in Afghanistan and said he was “taking a stand” for the people there as well as “the American people.”
“This ain’t about politics. This ain’t got nothing to do with politics, I don’t care if Donald Trump ever become president again don’t matter to me,” he said. “ I think y’all Democrats need to step down.”
In a video he began streaming an hour earlier, the man can be heard yelling out from the truck: “Hey! Tell ‘em to come out here and clear the Capitol! I’ve got a bomb in here! I don’t want nobody hurt!”
He then tossed a handful of money out of the window and invited a group of passersby to “pick it up and take it with you. You get all you want. It’s yours. Cause I done tried to call Joe Biden. Joe Biden wouldn’t talk to me. But they don’t understand that if this window breaks, this fuckin’ truck goes up. They think it’s a fuckin’ joke. Ain’t no joke, people. I’m here.”
The man described himself as “an American patriot,” and that he had “cleared my conscience with God.”
“It’s love for America, buddy, I have no fear,” he said at one point, fighting back tears. “None. The cracking in my voice is the passion I have for the land I love. It’s coming. Somebody needs to tell Joe Biden, ‘We here.’ The fucking revolution starts today, Joe Biden. And before you go cracking any pops on me, you better get your military experts out and ask them motherfuckers what a seven-and-a-half pound keg of gunpowder and a two-and-a-half pound of [explosives] on top of that can do.”
Thursday’s incident came on the heels of months of threats aimed at the Capitol, beginning with the pro-Trump mob that stormed the building on Jan. 6 and left multiple people dead, including a Capitol Police officer.
In April, a man rammed a vehicle into a barricade outside the northern entrance of the Capitol, killing one U.S. Capitol Police officer and injuring another.
Security fencing that went up around the Capitol complex in the days after the Jan. 6 riot was just removed last month.
The FBI Washington Field Office’s National Capital Response Squad confirmed it was also responding to the situation. Bomb technicians from the Washington Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also responding to the threat.
—With additional reporting by Kelly Weill, Jackie Kucinich, and Andrew Kirrell
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It is just one of Trump's "very fine people".
Unlike some of our members, most of us read and don't need the rehash copy paste in the comment sections to know the story. And, believe it or not, also click on the seeded link.
Could you tell XX that?
.... in bold print, on every seed he publishes. stfu would be another option...
My pleasure Next article he posts and pulls that shit. I hate that and when people feel the need to go all dumbass with shit like this typing. Drives me nuts and believe me, it's a short trip LOL
My heartfelt thanks.
Now some people write in large, bold letters because they have eyesight problems. Sometimes I do to make a point but I like to make the lettering red.
bwah ha ha ha, you're risking your group mod status with that bold statement.
I think I know who a couple of them are. Buzz I think for one has expressed that he needs to.
The ones that post font like this are just being dumbasses
Sorry it bothers you, but I like different type sizes. Breaks up what would be total monotony if everyone posted everything in the same type size.
It is also used to emphasize one sentence in a paragraph. Aint a darn thing wrong with it imo.
Just imagine seeing every single NT comment in a default type face. No thanks.
We pretty much do. Only a handful actually use a different font size or type
I know. That is one of the reasons I do it sometimes. I dont like all the same size type.
Don't mind the emphasis for a sentence. It's a whole damned post that is bullshit IMHO and just a "Look at me" cry.
Newspapers and websites use different size type all the time
Wanna piss off a mod, post in purple...
prove it.
What are the odds Trump will condemn this follower of his?
Next to none. If he does he will include with it a statement that the "people" are behind him.
I have to ask, what the hell difference does it make if he doesn't? Well except "but Trump".
You want the police to ask Mr. Trump to help with the negotiations too?
I want him to put an end to his insane cult.
Why not? Sounds like he might listen to trmp
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at least you are trying to show a sense of humor. that might be a first step to recovery.
An American Patriot, eh? Maybe he should sit down with a pocket sized copy of the Constitution and then come back and give us all a summary. Then maybe he can call himself a patriot
that would take the rest of the summer, provided he could sound out all the big words and had a dictionary app, and an app that translates english to goober.
The whack job has surrendered to the police.
He'll walk with the insanity defense
So far his defense seems to be "Joe Biden made me do it"
The Devil made me do it!
An insanity diagnosis doesn't let one walk and I've seen a couple of places where people get committed. While it isn't supermax it ain't arts and crafts time either.
Good to know
gee, I guess he wanted to go to prison, where he could be around more white supremacists, er, ... I mean trump supporting patriots.
You beat me to it.
He quit when he realized that Facebook cut him off.
At least Floyd will now have medical coverage. His wife, not so much.
Maybe some of Floyd's imaginary co-conspirators will start a go fund me for Mrs. Roseberry
Time to visit a divorce attorney. Take everything he has before he goes to prison
His "patriots" didn't show up. They got the dates mixed up
(am I wrong for making jokes about this?)
no, since nothing happened. one of these times in the future it wont be so funny
fuck no. after 13 years of teabag ridicule their skin had better thickened to endure the mockery of q-nuts and magats.
I know that the police have to exercise a certain amount of caution, and that all info needs to be obtained before they make a rash and regrettable decision, but...shoot the bastard in the face, don't hit the tannerite...
Somewhere toward the beginning of all of this he filmed himself throwing a wad of ones and some change on the ground in front of the truck
in a rant about inflation and health coverage he could not afford.
Can't be 100% positive but it looked like when he exited the vehicle to surrender he actually rolled under the truck to retrieve
said cash reappearing near the left rear tire before crawling across the street towards the Police.
My diagnosis is that he isn't THAT crazy after all.