Man Arrested With Possible Molotov Cocktails Outside D.C.’s St. Matthew’s Cathedral
The arrest happened before the Red Mass offered for Supreme Court justices to mark the start of their annual term.
The police arrested Louis Geri, 41, outside of D.C.’s Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on Sunday before the Red Mass.
The cathedral holds a Red Mass for the Supreme Court justices to mark the start of their annual term.
Officers went to the cathedral before the start of the Mass. From NBC Washington:
At 6 a.m., police officers saw 41-year-old Louis Geri, who set up a tent on the steps of the cathedral. Geri was previously prohibited from the cathedral’s premises, police said.
Geri refused to leave and was arrested by police. Officers said they found multiple suspicious items inside of Geri’s tent, including vials of liquid and possible fireworks.
D.C. police’s Explosive Ordinance Disposal team and the Arson Task Force searched Geri’s belongings at the cathedral. Police say the scene has been secured and there is no threat to the public. The front entrance to the cathedral and the 1700 block of Rhode Island Avenue in Northwest D.C. remain closed as the investigation continues.
Geri, from New Jersey, is preliminary charged with unlawful entry, threats to kidnap or injure a person, and possession of a Molotov cocktail.
I’m trying to find out why Geri was already barred from the premises.
The incident forced the justices not to attend the Red Mass.
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“The main difference between the Red Mass and a traditional Mass is that the focus of prayer and blessings concentrate on the leadership roles of those present. The gifts of the Holy Spirit: wisdom, understanding, counsel and fortitude, are customarily invoked upon those in attendance.”
KBJ? Anyway it would be nicest if it’s in Latin.
Until recently — well within living memory — the law was a conservative profession. The wigs, the robes, the Latin tags, … conservatism enthroned, or enbenched.
Mr. O’Shaughnessy, has your client never heard the expression sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas?
My Lord: in the remote farming village in County Kilkenny where my client lives, they speak of little else.
– Derbyshire
That was his mistake. It’s not at ALL like a Red Wedding.
“Anyway it would be nicest if it’s in Latin.” Amen to that.
WHAT would bethe oint, o advantage, o that? No one but possibly a small number o attorneys and/or judges, and most o the clergy, would understand a word spoken. That reduces the whole shindig to mindless repetition.
Wasn’t it being done specifically for attorneys and/or judges?
Mr. Geri sounds like just another solid blue voter.
I wonder how he was there today, what about his job?
Insert sarcasm here.
So unspecified “vials of liquid” (not even bottles, just vials) and “possible fireworks” becomes “possible Molotov cocktails?”
You’re reaching, people. This is clickbait.
The guy is a bum, kicked off the premises before, by representatives of a religion who FAIAP should have welcomed him inside THEIR premises like they welcomed millions of illegal migrants inside OURS. (Yeah, I know it’s impractical, but it’s THEIR religion.) He returned to make them live up to their own professed values, whereupon they called the cops who accused him of making bombs. It’s all there in the article if you read it properly.
bes wait until the “items” discovered are examined and identiphied.
My nickel is on the square where the coppers hang out. My dephault is that they “smelled” Trouble and acted, thus preventing a serious “incident” with dire consequences.
It will be interesting to learn why he had been banned previously.