The FBI said that the man who rammed a security gate at its Pittsburgh field office this week was trying to “make a statement.”
In an arrest affidavit filed Wednesday, the FBI said Donald Henson admitted to ramming the gate, saying, “sic semper tyrannis,” Latin for “thus always to tyrants.” “It is famously associated with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, who is said to have shouted the phrase after shooting the president,” the FBI wrote.
Henson, 46, is charged with damaging government property and assaulting officers. He will remain in custody until a detention hearing set for Tuesday.
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