Police: Man Arrested at D.C. Church With Explosives Threatened Catholics, Supreme Court
“Authorities said in court documents that the devices appeared ‘fully functional.'”
I am STUNNED. (not really)
On Sunday, the police arrested a man outside of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC, hours before the annual Red Mass held for Supreme Court justices to mark the start of their term.
Well, guess what: “During his arrest, Louis Geri threatened to ignite explosives and handed authorities pages of his notebook that, according to court records, expressed animosity toward the Catholic Church, Supreme Court justices, members of the Jewish faith and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.”
According to The Washington Post, the court papers allege Louis Geri, 41, of Arizona and New Jersey, warned the cops, “You might want to stay back and call the federales, I have explosives.”
Just wow:
The officer called over a sergeant with the bomb squad, court records show, who told Geri he had to move because there was an event. Geri — 41, of Vineland, New Jersey — said he knew about the event and continued to insist he had bombs.
“Do you want me to throw one out, I’ll test one out on the streets? I have a hundred-plus of them,” he told the sergeant, according to court records. “If you just step back, I’ll take out that tree. No one will get hurt, there will just be a hole where that tree used to be.”
When officers told Geri they were going to forcefully remove him if he did not leave, court documents show he responded by telling police that “several of your people are gonna die from one of these.”
In an attempt to de-escalate, the sergeant agreed to read what Geri had written down. Geri unzipped the flap of the tent and handed over nine pages torn out from his notebook titled “Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detonation of Explosives.” As he passed her the paperwork, court records show, the sergeant noticed that Geri had a butane lighter and an unknown white cap-shaped object clinched in his hand. She unzipped the rest of the flap, court records show, which angered Geri. He began reaching into a dark bag, according to court documents, and told her “Alright, if you want to do it, we’ll do it now.” The sergeant continued to ask him questions and he continued to answer, telling her he was the only one who wrote the “negotiations” he handed her and that he had a background in explosives.
But as he spoke, court records show, he began pulling out multiple capped vials containing yellow liquid with illegal explosive devices taped to them. He hovered his right thumb over the top of the butane lighter, posed to ignite it, and said “you better have these people step away or there’s going to be deaths, I’m telling you now.”
The police nabbed Geri when he left his tent to urinate at some trees by the church.
This part hits close to him (emphasis mine):
Geri told them he had an explosive device in the front pocket of his fleece. A D.C. police bomb squad technician searched him and found an explosive in his pocket along with a butane lighter.
Geri was arrested, while the hundreds of devices and the rest of his belongings were taken to the FBI for processing. Authorities determined some of the vials contained nitromethane — an explosive compound often used in improvised explosive devices, including the ones deployed in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people. Geri described them to authorities as grenades that use rubber bands to secure the fuse, court records show. Others were modified bottle rockets with aluminum foil heads and treated in a pyrotechnic solution, records show. Authorities said in court documents that the devices appeared “fully functional.”
This Oklahoma City girl just got shivers down her spine from reading that line.
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It’s always violence with the left. They can win in the arena of ideas.
Obviously they can’t, hence the violence
just following what his leaders are telling him to do
hakeem crookett comes to mind
So he told the police he had explosives three times before they took him seriously? That sounds like Cracker Jack police work there.
showing why the Guard was deployed in DC
I can still barely take him seriously.
I know how police love to embroider encounters to inflate their heroism.
“While both the district and police initially reported that the item was a starter pistol, a small firearm that shoots blanks, Reynolds said that, after they were able to examine the item, it was actually a metal cap gun that closely resembles a firearm. The gun only uses caps that create noise and was not loaded, so Reynolds said no one was in any danger.”
If this person does not get large bail and stuck in jail then I would be screaming at the Judge, If the Judge does not do that then the House must immediately impeach the Judge and send the Judge to be removed by the Senate. So far the way the Judges have acted it has not been good and people have been hurt due to criminals being let out.
Ummm this is the sort of guy who should NOT have pretrial release. He should be in pretrial confinement. IMO for almost any violent crime the person charged shouldn’t be getting cut loose on bond. Put hands on someone and that’s it. Use a weapon of any kind in an offensive manner (not in self defense) Nope, no bail. Scuffle with LEO instead of complying with an arrest? Nope the only way out is at trial or a guilty plea. Actually commit battery on LEO? Nope shouldn’t be possible to plea down (should always be a felony IMO), so either plead guilty and hope to get less than max sentence or sit in jail until you go to trial. FWIW I’d also remove ‘time served’ in pretrial confinement from consideration at sentencing for violent crimes.
They should have just shot him and be done with it. A lot of people were put at risk because they stood there scratching themselves. They’re lucky the perp is an idiot.