Several American media reported this Sunday that an armed man had been arrested near a rally where Donald Trump was.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department arrested an armed man who allegedly said he wanted to “kill the president” outside the perimeter of a Trump rally on Saturday, Oct. 12, Sheriff Chad Bianco said.
The arrested man is charged with illegal possession of a shotgun, a handgun and a high-capacity magazine, sheriff’s officials told the LA Times.
Vem Miller, 49, of Las Vegas, was arrested and booked into custody. The firearms were loaded when he was arrested, Riverside County sheriff’s officials said in a news release.
Deputies found the guns and magazine after searching Miller’s black SUV at a checkpoint around 5 p.m. Saturday.
The arrest “had no impact on the safety of former President Trump or event attendees,” sheriff’s officials also said.
As a reminder, in July, during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump narrowly avoided an assassination attempt. A bullet grazed his ear before Secret Service snipers killed the gunman, Thomas Crooks, who had opened fire from the roof of a nearby building. One rally attendee, Corey Comperatore, was killed while protecting his family from gunfire.
In September, police arrested a man near Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. They suspect Ryan Routh of having intended to shoot the former president with an SKS rifle while he was hiding in the bushes bordering the golf club located in the complex owned by the candidate for the American election. Prosecutors say Routh had a handwritten list of dates and locations where Trump was scheduled to appear.
This Saturday, the pro-Trump rally took place in the town of Coachella, in southern California, famous for its spring festival.
Three weeks before the election
A little more than three weeks before the November 5 vote, the polls are still undecided, but several recent surveys reveal Kamala Harris’ difficulties in attracting votes among black and Hispanic electorates.
The 59-year-old vice-president was in Greenville, North Carolina (southeast), on Sunday, in a part with a large black population of this state won for the last time in 2008 by a Democratic candidate and recently devastated by the hurricane. Helene.
Donald Trump, for his part, was to speak at a meeting in Arizona, a border state where his anti-immigration rhetoric is popular.
