Police arrested a person “driving along the sidewalk” close to the US Capitol earlier than 10 a.m. on Thursday, at some point after a driver mowed down New 12 months’s Eve revelers in a terror assault that left 15 useless in New Orleans.
Capitol cops took the suspicious man into custody in a grassy space after he drove his automobile “near Peace Circle, and into the grassy area near Third Street, NW, and Constitution Ave,” in response to a press launch.
The erratic habits comes after the ISIS-inspired act of terror by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, an Military vet and US citizen, who ran over greater than a dozen folks celebrating on Bourbon Road in New Orleans within the early hours of New 12 months’s Day.
Hours later, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded exterior of the Trump Worldwide Resort Las Vegas in one other obvious terror assault, killing solely its driver.
The Washington, DC, Metro Police Division introduced within the wake of the surprising incidents that it was heightening safety measures within the nation’s capital.
