Another active crime scene in Washington, D.C. today, created by a Trump supporter. Dale Paul Melvin of Michigan decided to park his SUV illegally in front of the Supreme Court and then refused to move it when asked to do so by authorities. Law and Crime:
“This morning at about 9:30 a.m., a man pulled his SUV up in front of the Supreme Court,” Deputy Chief Jason Bell told reporters during a press conference. “It was illegally parked. Our officers immediately responded. The man refused to talk, made a statement to the effect of, ‘The time for talking is done.’”
The deputy said that police backed off and had their crisis negotiation team get involved.
“The man was refusing to speak, and at approximately 11 o’clock, our teams moved in and removed him from the vehicle and placed him under arrest,” Bell added. “At this time, no weapons have been found. It is currently under investigation, and it’s still an active crime scene.”
USCP just detonated some sort of package associated with the suspicious vehicle between the Supreme Court and Capitol. Loud bang was heard across Capitol Hill. USCP says "there is no cause for alarm."
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) October 5, 2021
As you can gather, Melvin was asked to leave politely, he responded belligerently, and the police decided to smoke him out.
The incident falls weeks after a North Carolina man was accused of making bomb threats outside the U.S. Library of Congress on Aug. 19.
Floyd Ray Roseberry, 49, allegedly drove his pickup truck onto the public sidewalk in front of the library and claimed to have a bomb, leading to a standoff with authorities that reported stretched from the early morning until 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Roseberry did not, in fact, have a bomb, authorities say. But he was hit with charges of threatening to use a weapons of mass destruction and explosives.
Authorities say that Roseberry livestreamed tirades against President Joe Biden on Facebook.
“We here,” Roseberry allegedly said during the livestream. “The fucking revolution starts today Joe Biden. And before you go crackin’ any pop on me, you better get your military experts out, ask them motherfuckers what a 7 pound keg of gun powder will do with 2.5 pound of tannerite on that motherfucker.”
Melvin’s political views were ascertained by his Facebook page. He’s anti-Obama, anti-Hillary, pro-Trump. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Where it goes wrong is when you act out and become a public nuisance.
Here’s MSNBC’s report.
Did this moron even realize that he WASN’T in front of the White House?
It was a government building, it was in DC in the middle of other government buildings, therefore it was Important and so a Good Place for him to do whatever he was trying to do.