West L.A.: Police surround man accused of White House threat

[Hepburn]

LOS ANGELES—A man suspected of making threats against the White House is in a standoff with authorities outside the Federal Building in West Los Angeles.

Police Sgt. Kevin Lowe says officers on Thursday morning pursued the suspect's red Volkswagen through the city's west side and surrounded his car at the building's entrance. Several patrol cars are at the scene and officers have their guns drawn. A police bomb squad has also arrived, including a four-wheeled robot.

U.S. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan says the suspect made a threat but would not give details.

Lowe says two misdemeanors warrants are out for the man's arrest. He would not elaborate.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_13053639?nclick_check=1

Nothing like stupid AND dangerous ~~ makes a threat against Obama and goes to.... ta-dah... the Feddie Bldg on Wilshire in West L.A. to escape the Feebies!

[asdjrocky]

1. Wilshire, the bussiest street in the world.

Has to be a freeper.

[Hepburn]

3. The Feddie Bldg is right across from the VA Cemetary and down from...

...the VA Hosp at Wilshire and the 405. I mean...go there to escape Federal Law Enforcement???

Interesting that the bomb squad is there. I also read that the apartment across from the side of the Feddie Bldg has been evacuated.

Wilshire is busy...but downtown is a ton more busy than that part of it in West L.A.

:hi:

[tekisui]

8. Someone on Twitter reported that he had made a bomb threat.

And, had threatened the WH.

[asdjrocky]

27. I worked for a trucking company in norther ca and the drivers that went to

wilshire always called it the busiest street in the world, lol, must has stuck with me. :hi:

[EFerrari]

2. No kidding! I hope no one gets hurt.

[Hepburn]

4. I am trying to get more info....

...found the mention of the bomb squad being there and residential apartment house being evacuated kind of scary. May just be precautionary... but still...

Will keep all up-dated...looking for local news.

:hi:

[Hepburn]

5. Live Streaming video from the scene...

...it's Faux Snooze...but still...it's news:

http://media.myfoxla.com/live/2/

[lpbk2713]

9. They seem to be focusing on a red VW Beetle.

Does that have anything to do with it?

They aren't giving any audio commentary.

[tekisui]

12. There was a reported bomb theat, maybe the beetle is the car

that would have a bomb, if there were a bomb?

[Hepburn]

14. That is what I am thinking...

...that whatever it is, is in the VW.

:shrug:

[Hepburn]

13. Yeah, the suspect ran from LE in a red beetle. n/t

[malaise]

16. There were two people - one was arrested when he jumped out

of the Beetle other is in the Beetle

reword

[Hepburn]

20. Wow....

...this is interesting.

My old stomping grounds, so to speak: The Feddie Bldg in West L.A. ~~ I did lots of demonstrating there over the years.

:hi:

[malaise]

30. Hi Hepburn

:fistbump:

[951-Riverside]

19. Fox News Channel and Fox TV/KTTV are very very very different

Don't associate that piss poor "News" channel with the fine people are KTTV who actually do real news.

[kirby]

6. Bad link n/t

[FSogol]

7. How long til Beck, Rush, or some other Repub scum tries to spin this

as Federal Thugs attacking patriots?

[tekisui]

10. I feel like we aren't very far from a Waco or Montana Freeman type

stand-off, with the further radicalizing of these nuts.

[FSogol]

11. Sadly, you are probably correct. n/t

[county worker]

15. I have a clue about these nuts.

So many are saying they want their country back but little has changed since Obama took office and the health care bill isn't even law yet.

What these kooks want is to be back in power. It is not just bad for them that they lost the election but they lost it to a Black man!

What they want back is a country run by white anglo-saxon god fearing christians!

The town halls are a vehicle for them to vent.

[Hepburn]

17. IMO....

...it is racism ~~ pure and simple.

I recall the CR movement back in the 60s ~~ was in college then ~~ and the same kind of insane hatred permeated some parts of society.

Really sick.

[SeattleGirl]

18. The bomb robot is at the vehicle now. n/t

[Schema Thing]

21. this has the makings of a cute VW commercial

Wall-E meets The Hurt Locker meets Farvenugen

[Hepburn]

22. Wow....

....scary stuff!

[SeattleGirl]

23. It hasn't moved since it got to the car. I don't really know how

those things work, though, so I'm not sure if it's "sniffing out" a bomb or what.

[Hepburn]

24. Channel 5 in L.A. is carryin this live.

Just said this hjas been going on for about 3 hours. Saying a lot of movement in the last few minutes. Lots of dif LE there: CHP, County, Feddies, etc.

:hi:

[MineralMan]

25. The live feed from myfoxla.com is off for now.

They made the camera crew move back from the scene. It doesn't look like there's going to be a good camera position from where they have to go.

I don't know what KTLA.com has on its live feed. It was blank the last time I looked.

[MineralMan]

28. That's not a live feed.

Here's one from the ABC Channel 7 chopper. No sound.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/livenow?id=6963450

[Critters2]

26. Wow. They must think this is a serious threat. Scary stuff! nt

[bemildred]

29. Well, it isn't a misdemeanor anymore. nt

[BecomingBrainy]

31. Chan 5 livestream

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-tivid-livestream-b,0,1174195.tividlivestream

[BecomingBrainy]

32. They moved their "swat" vehicle right up on the car.

...

[BecomingBrainy]

33. For those of your not watching

The vehicle is a new VW, coming out of a parking lot, surround by law enforcement vehicles

[malaise]

34. The Beetle is moving now?

Why aren't we seeing this on M$Greedia?

[BecomingBrainy]

35. The vehicle did back up a bit

When the police, Hummer looking vehicle scooted on him. The VW can't move forward a foot.

[BecomingBrainy]

36. KTLA turned off their feed ABC still works

...

[BecomingBrainy]

37. Most likely the robot

Gave the guy a phone to communicate to the police, most likely negotiations going on. This way the don't have to yell to each other. At the same time the robot's camera would be used to get a visual on the interior of the vehicle.

[BecomingBrainy]

38. correction

Doesn't look like any contact has been made.

VW's windows are up.

[asdjrocky]

39. Just a quick kick.

This was still going on just a few minutes ago.