The bomb threat in Washington DC today is apparently coming from a deranged wingnut. I know you’re shocked:
Been watching videos created by capitol bomb threat suspect. Facebook account has been taken down. But I still have access. Explicitly references fall of Kabul, claims Biden gave mil equipment to Taliban, etc. Complains about being being shadow banned by FB, etc. etc.
2/ It appears he originally planned something for Labor Day. Tells “Biden and Nancy” they better leave unless they “want to hear people scream”. etc.
3/ “labor day weekend they gonna know the motherfuckin south was there”
4/ appears to say he’s from Earl, NC.
In Facebook video, Capitol bomb threat suspect repeatedly invokes Trump and the fall of Kabul. Attacks Biden and Pelosi. Says Trump will become President again after Biden is driven from office. Says Trump will then pardon everyone.
Originally tweeted by Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) on August 19, 2021.
Update — The Daily Beast Reports:
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.
Social media analyzed by The Daily Beast align with the few facts already known about the incident. A Facebook livestream posted to a now-deleted account matching the suspect’s name showed a man parked outside the Court of Neptune statues located on the west face of the Library of Congress across the street from the Capitol, where police have blocked off traffic.
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.”
Please tell me what the difference between this guy and some random Jihadi?
Update II: he surrendered