THE Capitol Police found explosive making equipment but no bomb inside the truck of the suspect who posed with his finger over a device and surrendered after police used a white board to negotiate with him for four hours.
Investigators safely cleared the bomb threat after the suspect, Floyd Ray Roseberry, 49, sent the area around the Library of Congress into lockdown for hours.
Roseberry had previously told an officer on the scene that he had a bomb, and the officer noticed that an object resembling a detonator was in his hand, according to a US Capitol Police press release.
He had driven onto the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress at around 9:15 on Thursday morning, launching the hours-long standoff that ended with Roseberry crawling from his truck.
Officers had observed the man sitting in a black pickup truck outside the Library of Congress holding what appeared to be a detonator, U.S. Capitol Police Chief J. Thomas Manger said.
Roseberry unleashed an anti-Biden rant in a Facebook live video, saying, “We got a few options here Joe. You shoot me, two and a half blocks are going with me. And then you’re talking about a revolution.”
