An unknown armed man «carrying a U.S. Marshal badge» was arrested outside an event where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was speaking on Friday.
Police arrested an armed man falsely claiming to be part of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s security team in Los Angeles on Friday night. It happened outside a venue where the Democratic 2024 presidential candidate was giving a speech and just two miles away from where his father, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in 1968.
The incident took place by the Wilshire Ebell Theatre where Kennedy was delivering an address to mark Hispanic Heritage Month. Kennedy posted a photograph of the man who was detained while wearing an Emergency Medical Service top and dark sunglasses, on X, formerly known as Twitter. Kennedy said the man was «carrying a U.S. Marshal badge» and had stated he was part of his security.
While Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has struggled to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination, he has picked up considerable conservative support, thanks to his promotion of discredited conspiracy theories about coronavirus vaccines.
A Quinnipiac University poll among 1,632 likely voters, released earlier this month, found Kennedy was the preferred candidate of 13 percent of Democrat or Democrat-leaning voters, down 3.
