Two of the men who were arrested Wednesday at Fort Meade — where the driver of an SUV attempted to enter the National Security Agency compound — have been released, and the third has been handed over to the Howard County Sheriff’s Office, the FBI said Thursday.Apparently no one was too seriously injured in all this.The driver of the SUV, an NSA police officer and a civilian bystander were injured in the incident, which happened shortly before 7 a.m. at Gate 1 on Canine Road, off Maryland Route 32.
The investigation is ongoing, but “we do not see a nexus to terrorism,” FBI Baltimore field office spokesman Dave Fitz said in a statement.
Javonte Alhajie Brown, 24, of Washington, was turned over to the Howard County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday evening on an active warrant for unpaid child support, spokesman Deputy Christopher Adams said.
No phone number was listed for Brown’s address. He was expected to be released Thursday afternoon, Adams said.
The FBI did not release the names or ages of the other men, and the agency did not provide any updates on the injured people’s conditions. Fitz said he did not expect to provide a second update Thursday.
As I said on the other thread, they could have been high, drunk, engaging in illegal activity or had a criminal history (in this case, one of them apparently had a warrant)
People do panic, especially when you have a warrant, and you take a wrong road and end up at a big monolithic gate with police cars and people in body armor, dogs on leashes, holding automatic weapons, and they are all looking at you.
If you have a warrant out on you, you might well panic especially if you are the driver, go up over a curb to turn around, whatever...
I am onboard with people feeling like we are in a police state, we are. But that said, these people who were manning that checkpoint may well have been on edge for whatever reason, and we may know nothing about it. There may have been threats, and mentally ill leftists are a significant threat at all times.
People have indeed been killed for stupidity (just a fact of life) and acting erratically in that environment is not something even the most mentally challenged person wants to do. Even if you do have a warrant out on you.
They never do. Standard out-of-the-can government answer that will change someday hopefully.
The presumption for unprovoked and unexplained attacks and murder is Islamic jihadism. The presumption can be rebutted of course with appropriate and convincing evidence, but the presumption should be the starting point.
Thanks.
Looks like you are right...lost and screwed up the turn around...
The Feds are out of it...with no explanation re: why shots fired ?
I hope a reporter is around to get the story, when they release Mr. Brown