Man With 'Tax The 1%' Protest Sign Fatally Shoots Self In Front Of Shocked Crowd At Capitol

WJLA.com
Apr. 14, 2015

Related: The Top 1 Percent Pays More in Taxes than the Bottom 90 PercentWASHINGTON (WJLA/AP/ABC News/CNN) - A man carrying a tax protest sign shot and killed himself near the U.S. Capitol on Saturday as dozens of shocked onlookers watched - including some young children, police and witnesses said.

The man died after pulling out a gun and shooting himself on the west front of the Capitol building just after 1 p.m., according to police. No one else was hurt and no shots were fired by any law enforcement agency, but the suicide prompted the Capitol to be put on a precautionary lockdown for several hours.

[...]The sign carried by the man contained a message about "social justice," Dine said. A witness, Robert Bishop of Annapolis, Md., said it also said something about taxing the "1%."

Bishop, who was biking near the steps of the Capitol when the suicide happened, said there were about 60 people in the area - and some of them witnessed it, including a girl and her mother who immediately began crying afterward.

Witnesses told police that the man held up the taxation protest sign just before pulling the trigger.



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