{"id":662050,"date":"2021-08-19T13:06:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=662050"},"modified":"2021-08-19T13:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T17:06:33","slug":"police-negotiating-with-man-with-possible-explosives-near-u-s-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-negotiating-with-man-with-possible-explosives-near-u-s-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Negotiating With Man With Possible Explosives Near U.S. Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-negotiating-with-man-with-possible-explosives-near-u-s-capitol%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=662050&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-08-19T143122Z_1_LYNXMPEH7I0QA_RTROPTP_4_USA-DAILYLIFE-scaled-e1629391696151.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Mark Hosenball<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters)\u2014Law enforcement officials were negotiating with a man who said he had a bomb in his pick-up truck near the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;U.S<\/span>.<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Capitol&nbsp;<\/span>on Th<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">urs<\/span>day, causing nearby buildings to be evacuated as emergency vehicles rushed to the scene about a mile from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;U.S<\/span>.<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Capitol&nbsp;<\/span>Police said they did not know the man&#8217;s motive but confirmed that he was livestreaming from the vehicle o<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">uts<\/span>ide the Library of Congress, across the street from the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Capitol<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Capitol&nbsp;<\/span>Police Chief J. Thomas Manger told reporters that the man parked his vehicle on a sidewalk and told an officer who approached him that he had a bomb while holding what appeared to be a detonator. Police do not know the man&#8217;s motive, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My negotiators are hard at work trying to have a peaceful resolution to this incident,&#8221; Manger said at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>A video livestreamed on Facebook appeared to show a man speaking inside a truck parked on a sidewalk o<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">uts<\/span>ide of what looked like the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The revolution&#8217;s on, it&#8217;s here,&#8221; the man said. &#8220;I&#8217;m trying to get (<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">U.S<\/span>. President) Joe Biden on the phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police did not say whether the video was made by the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>A<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;U.S<\/span>. law enforcement source said the presence of explosives had not been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Several nearby buildings were evacuated, including the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;U.S<\/span>. Supreme Court. People in the Madison office building were told to bar themselves in their offices. A nearby subway station was closed.<\/p>\n<p>Police blocked off roads surrounding the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Capitol&nbsp;<\/span>complex as fire and rescue trucks headed to the area. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it was sending a bomb technician to support police. The Federal Bureau of Investigation also responded.<\/p>\n<p>The ordinarily crowded<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Capitol&nbsp;<\/span>Hill area was relatively deserted, with the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;U.S<\/span>. House of Representatives and Senate out of session.<\/p>\n<p>High-security fencing was erected in the area after the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Capitol&nbsp;<\/span>by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, but it had been removed by mid-July.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Lisa Lambert, Lawrence Hurley, Sarah N. Lynch, Mark Hosenball and Julio-Cesar ChavezWriting by David Morgan Editing by Andy Sullivan, Chizu Nomiyama and Sonya Hepinstall)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters)\u2014Law enforcement officials were negotiating with a man who said he had a bomb in his pick-up truck near the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Capitol\u00a0on Thursday, causing nearby &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-662050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}