Secret Service Ushers Reporters Into WH Briefing Room After Security Alert

The name of the man has not yet been made public. A spokesperson for the Secret Service said that he jumped over a construction bollard on the northeast side of the Treasury Building.

Almost right away, the man was stopped and held. The spokesperson said that one officer got a cut that wasn’t life-threatening during a “physical altercation” with the man. Both the officer and the suspect were sent to a nearby hospital to be checked out.

“Security alert at the White House perimeter,” she wrote on X. “The lawn press tents have been evacuated, and everyone is moving to the press room

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