The U.S. Capitol Police seized a guillotine and arrested a man it says transported it in the bed of his pickup truck before illegally parking it alongside the U.S. Supreme Court building.
Capitol Police said officers noticed the pickup truck around 3 p.m. Tuesday and later arrested 35-year-old Philan-Tam-Duy Le, of Julian, California.
Le, who drove to Washington from California, was charged with carrying a dangerous weapon, police said.
“Investigators are going through the suspect’s backpack to learn more about why he came to Washington,” police said in a press release.
Photos of the truck began to spread on social media just before 6 p.m. on Tuesday with police seen photographing the truck and later towing it.
The ominous imagery of the guillotine near the U.S. Capitol called to mind the gallows erected with the building in the backdrop on Jan. 6, 2021.
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