A person carrying loaded handguns and spare ammunition was arrested Friday after he posed as a U.S. marshal at a marketing campaign occasion for Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Los Angeles.
In a submit on X, previously referred to as Twitter, Kennedy detailed the incident and expressed his appreciation for the safety guards on the Hispanic Heritage occasion who “moved rapidly to isolate and detain the person.”
“I’m very grateful that the alert and fast protectors from Gavin De Becker & Associates (GDBA) detected and detained an armed man who tried to method me at my speech on Hispanic heritage on the Wilshire Ebelle Theater in Los Angeles tonight.” Kennedy wrote.
“The person, who was carrying two shoulder holsters and had loaded pistols and spare ammunition magazines, had a U.S. Marshal’s badge on a lanyard and a federal identification belt buckle. He recognized himself as a member of my safety element. Members of the armed GDBA staff moved rapidly to isolate and detain the person. The LAPD arrived to make the arrest. “I’m additionally grateful to the LAPD for his or her fast response.”
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A person carrying loaded handguns and spare ammunition was arrested Friday after he posed as a U.S. marshal at a marketing campaign occasion for Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Los Angeles. (Mario Tama/Getty Photographs, Instagram/robertfkenediger)
Kennedy posted images of the individual arrested on the occasion on social media. The unknown perpetrator appeared carrying a black T-shirt with a emblem studying “Emergency Medical Providers.”
Kennedy, a Democrat who introduced a main problem to President Biden earlier this 12 months, additionally famous that he has not but secured Secret Service safety.
“I proceed to hope that President Biden will permit me to guard the Secret Service,” Kennedy added within the submit. “I’m the primary presidential candidate in historical past to have the White Home deny his safety request.”
In July, Kennedy claimed that the Biden administration rejected his request for Secret Service safety as a 2024 presidential candidate.
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Kennedy posted images of the individual arrested on the occasion on social media. The unknown perpetrator appeared carrying a black T-shirt with a emblem studying “Emergency Medical Providers.” (Instagram/robertfkenediger)
“The same old time interval for formal safety requests from presidential candidates is 14 days.” Kennedy wrote at the time “After 88 days of no response and a number of follow-ups by our marketing campaign, the Biden administration has simply denied our request,” in a prolonged assertion posted on X.
Kennedy mentioned he acquired a letter from Homeland Safety Secretary Mayorkas that learn: “I’ve decided that Secret Service safety of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not be warranted right now.”
On its web site, Secret Service Notes It protects “the highest presidential and vice presidential candidates and their spouses inside 120 days of the overall presidential election.”
The placement of the Kennedy marketing campaign occasion the place this particular person was arrested is lower than two miles from the previous website of the Ambassador Resort, the place Robert F. Kennedy was shot and killed in June 1968.
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with supporters on the Wilshire Ebelle Theater in Los Angeles on September 15, 2023. (Hans Gutknecht/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Each day Information through Getty Photographs)
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The homicide of Kennedy Jr.’s father in a Los Angeles lodge took place 5 years after the assassination of his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, in Dallas in November 1963.
Fox Information’ Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.
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