Capitol Police in Washington arrested a man who tried to enter the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center with three knives and a machete on Wednesday afternoon.
The arrest happened as members of the public were filing into the Capitol Rotunda to pay their respects to former President Jimmy Carter, who has been lying in state since Tuesday.
“Just after 2:00 p.m., our officers stopped and arrested a man who tried to get a machete into the Capitol Visitor Center,” Capitol Police said in a post on X.
Officers noticed the machete as the man’s bag was being scanned through an X-ray machine. They discovered the knives soon after….