Publié le oct 3, 2013 @ 20:49 (Allainjules)
USA: le Congrès brièvement bouclé après des coups de feu
"WASHINGTON - Le Congrès des Etats-Unis a été brièvement bouclé jeudi
après-midi après que des coups de feu ont retenti à proximité de l'un
des bâtiments annexes du Parlement américain, dans le centre de
Washington.
Un policier a été blessé et transporté à l'hôpital, a indiqué la police sans autres précisions.
L'alerte,
qui a duré un peu plus d'une demie heure, a également engendré un
important déploiement de policiers armés dans les rues adjacentes au
Capitole, sans que l'on connaisse toutefois l'origine de ces coups de
feu.
Selon des médias américains, l'incident aurait commencé
devant la Maison Blanche et aurait continué avec une course-poursuite
qui se serait achevée à proximité du Capitole.
La résidence du président américain, qui se trouve dans un autre quartier de Washington, a également été bouclée temporairement.
" (romandie)
Deuxième fusillade en trois semaines
Les coups de feu ont été tirés dans deux rues longeant le Capitole,
ont précisé des témoins. Un blessé a été évacué par hélicoptère.
Il y a trois semaines, le 16 septembre, une fusillade avait déjà
éclaté dans la capitale américaine. Treize personnes avaient été tuées
au Navy Yard, le centre administratif de la Marine américaine. (
france24)
Quartier bouclé
Le tireur présumé – une femme ? -
aurait été neutralisée, voire tuée, par les forces de l'ordre. Le
quartier, ultra-sensible, a été brièvement bouclé, de même que les
abords de la Maison blanche, située à quelques mètres de là. (
metronews)
An eyewitness told Fox News the incident began when a woman tried to ram a gate near the White House and her vehicle came to a stop near the Capitol building. Sources said several police cars boxed in the vehicle, the driver got out and five or six shots were fired. Witnesses saw a baby being taken from the car. (INatNews)
Epilogue
A woman driving a black Infiniti sedan struck a security barricade
outside the White House and fled to Capitol Hill on Thursday afternoon,
where pursuing police shot and killed her. One officer was struck by her
vehicle at the White House and another was injured in the course of the
pursuit.
The driver was a “black adult female” and “is deceased as a result of
her injuries sustained in the shooting,” the United States Secret
Service said late Thursday. Her identity is “being withheld at this
time, pending verification and notification of next of kin.” [?]
A Capitol Police spokesperson said in a press conference following
the incident that a one-year-old baby found in the car after the chase
has been hospitalized. The only shots fired during the episode came from
law enforcement and not the suspect, per the police spokesperson.
The car being driven by the suspect, a late-model black Infiniti, has
Connecticut license plates. Police are searching a home in Stamford,
Conn., in connection with the incident,
per local media. Authorities are also planning to speak with the suspect’s sister in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to
CNN.
Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine told reporters there’s no indication the episode was “related to terrorism.”
A U.S. Capitol Police Officer injured in the incident was taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center and
later released.
The incident prompted a tense but brief lockdown of the Capitol
building, where a chaotic scene unfolded after multiple people heard
several gunshots. People ran frantically and officers swarmed as Capitol
Police issued a “shelter in place” order for offices on the House side
of the building.
“Close, lock and stay away from external doors and windows,” the police said in an emergency alert.
Rep. Bill Posey (R-Fla.), who was on the House balcony at the time, told
Politico he heard “five or six” gunshots.
“Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!” he said. “Then sirens went off, cops started going everywhere yelling ‘get inside, get inside!’
B.J. Campbell, 69, a tourist visiting from Portland, Ore., said he
saw the black car drive past White House security. Officers began
“banging on the car, yelling at her,” Campbell told TIME. One tried to
use a bicycle rack to box in the vehicle, but the car spun around and
rammed into the rack and hit the officer, who was not wearing a uniform.
The officer, whom the Associated Press identified as a Secret Service
agent, was knocked onto the hood of the car and rolled off onto the
street, according to Campbell. However, another witness said the officer
got up and did not appear to be injured.
“There was a lot of yelling at the driver to stop,” said Joe Brophy,
the manager of a pedicab company, who saw the incident. The car sped off
down Pennsylvania Avenue heading east, followed within 30 seconds by
several police cars, according to witnesses.
There was a heavy police presence just west of the Capitol near the
U.S. Botanical Garden, as tourists moved away from the Capitol. Secret
Service was on high alert and Pennsylvania Avenue was closed off near
the White House.
“The President was briefed on the reports of gunfire on Capitol Hill
this afternoon,” a White House official said Thursday. “White House
staff are in touch with law enforcement and monitoring the incident.”
The Senate Sergeant at Arms had also advised people on the Senate
side of the building to shelter in place if in an office, or go to the
nearest office if not. The House of Representatives, which had been in
session when the shooting started, reconvened by approximately 3:30 p.m.
Infos connexes
WASHINGTON (Sept. 24, 2014) -- Seeing emergency vehicles and first
responders in action unfortunately are not new to the residents of the
National Capital Region, but beginning Sept. 30 thru Oct. 3, those
images will not be a sign that something has gone terribly wrong, but
that various government agencies are preparing for the next such
incident if it occurs.
Capital Shield 2014 is a joint training exercise in the National Capital
Region, or NCR, that runs from Sept. 30 thru Oct. 3, and is hosted by
the Joint Force Headquarters - National Capital Region. It brings
federal, state, local and municipal agencies together to realistically
test interagency operability during a crisis impacting the District of
Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland.
10/3/2013 -- Final day of 'Capital Shield 2014' (CS 14) = DC shooting False Flag ?
Breaking news right now. US Capitol on lockdown after shots fired.
ROCKVILLE (Etats-Unis) - Barack Obama s'en est directement pris jeudi au
président républicain de la Chambre des représentants John Boehner pour
la paralysie de l'Etat provoquée selon lui depuis trois jours par ses
troupes.
Votez (un budget), arrêtez cette comédie et mettez fin à
cette paralysie !, a lancé le président des Etats-Unis lors d'une
intervention dans une PME de Rockville (Maryland), dans la banlieue
nord-ouest de Washington.
La seule chose qui paralyse l'Etat, la
seule chose qui empêche les gens de revenir travailler, la recherche
fondamentale de redémarrer et les PME d'obtenir des prêts (...) la seule
chose qui empêche cela de se produire dans les cinq prochaines minutes
est que John Boehner ne veut même pas autoriser un vote sur le projet de
loi (d'orientation budgétaire), parce qu'il ne veut pas s'aliéner les
extrémistes dans son parti, a encore dit M. Obama. (
romandie)
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