The US Capitol is in lockdown while police negotiate with a man in a pick-up truck demanding airstrikes in Afghanistan to ‘kick the Taliban’s a**’ outside the Library of Congress, and saying he’ll blow up entire blocks if Biden doesn’t come to speak to him.
The man in the truck is believed to be 49-year-old Ray Roseberry from North Carolina. At 9.15am this morning, he drove his black pick-up truck onto the sidewalk outside the Library of Congress, opposite the Capitol building.
Congress is in recess so no elected officials are there but there are staffers who are still working in the Capitol buildings. He then called 911, reporting that he had a bomb and wanted to speak to the President.
