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WASHINGTON (77WABC) – A diehard Trump supporter who claimed to have a bomb in a pickup truck near the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., surrendered to police after an hours-long standoff.
The suspect, 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry, has been to safely taken into custody. pic.twitter.com/06RcwTcasQ
— The U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) August 19, 2021
U.S. Capitol Police identified the man as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry of Grover, NC. Earlier on, Roseberry posted a video on a Facebook livestream where he repeatedly made threats toward President Joe Biden, telling him that “the South is coming” and that the deaths of Afghan people “are on your hands.”
He also claimed that if sharpshooters opened fire, his vehicle and four others nearby would blow up.
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The standoff prompted a massive police response, evacuating government buildings and businesses in the area. Police don’t immediately know whether there were explosives in the vehicle and are doing a sweep of the vehicle and the area.
Authorities were searching the truck in an effort to understand what led the man, identified by law enforcement officials as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry of North Carolina, to drive onto the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress and make bomb threats to officers.
