19-year-old arrested on multiple charges after crashing into barriers near the White House

[BumRushDaShow]

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Source: NBC News

The 19-year-old Missouri man accused of driving a truck into barriers near the White House made incriminating statements that indicated to investigators that he was seeking to harm the president, officials said Tuesday. The driver was Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, U.S. Park Police said Tuesday morning.

The charges against Kandula for allegedly “threatening to kill, kidnap, inflict harm on a president, vice president, or family member,” stem from statements he made to multiple law enforcement agencies, according to a Secret Service representative. President Joe Biden was in the White House when the truck crashed outside, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. He had met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Monday night to discuss the debt limit.

But it wasn’t clear if Biden was informed of the incident as it unfolded. The Secret Service and Park Police briefed him Tuesday morning, according to Jean-Pierre. “He’s relieved that no one was injured last night and grateful to the agent and law enforcement officer who responded so quickly,” she told reporters

The suspect was interviewed by Secret Service investigators Monday night, the agency representative said, during the investigation that also involves United States Park Police, the FBI and U.S. Capitol Police. Kandula was further charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle and trespassing.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/truck-crashes-security-barriers-white-house-driver-detained-nazi-flag-rcna85718

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Reuters hadn't updated but this OP is the latest that is now breaking at multiple news outlets.

Article updated.

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A 19-year-old Missouri man, accused of driving a truck into barriers near the White House, made incriminating statements that have led investigators to believe he was seeking to harm the president, officials said Tuesday.

The driver was Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, U.S. Park Police said Tuesday morning. The charges against Kandula for allegedly "threatening to kill, kidnap, inflict harm on a president, vice president, or family member," stem from statements he made to multiple law enforcement agencies, according to a Secret Service representative.

The suspect was interviewed by Secret Service investigators Monday night, the agency representative said, during the ongoing probe that also involves United States Park Police, the FBI and U.S. Capitol Police. Kandula was further charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle and trespassing.

Authorities said the preliminary investigation indicates Kandula "intentionally crashed" into the bollards outside Lafayette Park. A Nazi flag was seized by authorities at the scene of the incident. No one was injured. A law enforcement official told NBC News that the suspect made threatening statements about the White House at the scene but was quickly detained. The truck was found to contain no weapons or explosives, the official said, without providing further details about the incident.

The driver of a truck that crashed into security barriers near the White House on Monday night has been identified as a 19-year-old from Missouri who was arrested on multiple charges, including threatening to kill or harm a president, vice president or family member, officials said.

The driver was Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, U.S. Park Police said Tuesday morning. Kandula was further charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle and trespassing. Authorities said the preliminary investigation indicates Kandula "intentionally crashed" into the bollards outside Lafayette Park. A Nazi flag was seized by authorities at the scene of the incident. No one was injured.

A law enforcement official told NBC News that the suspect made threatening statements about the White House at the scene but was quickly detained. The truck was found to contain no weapons or explosives, the official said, without providing further details about the incident. Asked for their reaction, the official said: "I don't think there's any place for a Nazi flag or the statements that he made."

The white U-Haul box truck crashed into the barriers on the north side of Lafayette Square, just a few hundred feet from the White House, just before 10 p.m. ET.

Original article -

The driver of a truck that crashed into security barriers near the White House on Monday night has been identified as a 19-year-old from Missouri who was arrested on multiple charges, including threatening to kill or harm a president, vice president or family member, officials said. The driver was Sai Varshith Kandula of Chesterfield, U.S. Park Police said Tuesday morning.

Kandula was further charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a motor vehicle and trespassing. Authorities said the preliminary investigation indicates Kandula "intentionally crashed" into the bollards outside Lafayette Park. A Nazi flag was seized by authorities at the scene of the incident. No one was injured.

A law enforcement official told NBC News that the suspect made threatening statements about the White House at the scene but was quickly detained. The truck was found to contain no weapons or explosives, the official said, without providing further details about the incident.

Asked for their reaction, the official said: "I don't think there's any place for a Nazi flag or the statements that he made." The white U-Haul box truck crashed into the barriers on the north side of Lafayette Square, just a few hundred feet from the White House, just before 10 p.m. ET.

[bluedigger]

1. How does a 19 year old rent a U-Haul?

Last I heard, you needed to be 25 at Hertz and Avis.

[melm00se]

3. You can now use your phone

and may never have to interface with people.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. You can rent a truck without having to show your license?

Is that really true in the USA? No way could you do that in the UK, for any vehicle. And you'd need to be 25 to rent something as large as a truck like that.

[Effete Snob]

20. .

https://www.uhaul.com/Tips/Loading/Reserving-A-Moving-Truck-What-Are-The-Rental-Requirements-26769/

What is the Minimum Age to Rent a U-Haul Truck?

A customer must be 18 years of age to rent a truck. Typically, other rental companies have the same requirements. In some cases, companies set the minimum age at 24 years old or older but allow drivers 18-23 years of age to rent for an additional fee.

[getagrip_already]

8. It's graduation season......

Lots of students are moving out of dorms and apartments, so it's not unusual for a parent to rent a truck for a kid to use.

Leaves them open to insurance issues and fines, but it is common.

Why a 19 year old would use one like this is the very real question. Something or someone wrapped him around the axil so tightly he thought it was a good idea.

[Effete Snob]

21. U-Haul will rent to 18 year olds

There is this thing called the internet....

https://www.uhaul.com/Tips/Loading/Reserving-A-Moving-Truck-What-Are-The-Rental-Requirements-26769/

What is the Minimum Age to Rent a U-Haul Truck?

A customer must be 18 years of age to rent a truck. Typically, other rental companies have the same requirements. In some cases, companies set the minimum age at 24 years old or older but allow drivers 18-23 years of age to rent for an additional fee.

[onetexan]

48. Senior project... from his surname he's south asian

So this is rather strange he's espousing nazism. Needless to say a very messed up young man. Most indian kids his age that i know (kids of friends) are high achieving & career oriented. His parents must be aghast & appalled, as they should be.

[Texin]

49. That's exactly what I was thinking.

Clearly, this guy has no awareness that under the Nazi regime, he'd have been a target for the death camps.

[GreenWave]

53. But not before exploiting his Axis "brotherhood" to do its bidding for them.

[Hekate]

55. The Axis had Japan as one of its partners. In addition, the US now has generations of people who

…never even knew who fought in WWII and why.

[onetexan]

58. Hence the importance of nonrevisionist history in classrooms

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

[Hekate]

60. Exactly

[Rebl2]

29. Same here

You have to be 25 to rent a car from most rental car companies and would think the same for U-Haul.

[riversedge]

31. Here is a pic of the UHaul---

CALL TO ACTIVISM
@CalltoActivism
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: A 19-year-old from Missouri has been arrested on multiple charges including threatening to kill or harm the president or vice president, after crashing into barriers near the White House.

The driver made threatening statements about the White House at the scene of Monday night's incident, a law enforcement official said.

A Nazi flag was seized by authorities at the scene.

A law enforcement official told NBC News that the suspect made threatening statements about the White House at the scene but was quickly detained. The truck was found to contain no weapons or explosives, the official said, without providing further details about the incident.

We’ll update more below as news comes in. 👇🧵

Link to tweet

?s=20

[IbogaProject]

52. U-Haul is much easier to rent

Other than the myriad of expenses.

[JI7]

2. Another non white Nazi ?

[jimfields33]

7. So weird. Hard to fathom a POC as a nazi sympathizer

[Effete Snob]

9. I'm trying to make sense of your question

Leaving aside the fact that the swastika is a symbol of Indian origin, and that one third of the Axis was most certainly not white...



...the fact that Hitler was fighting against Britain was certainly not lost on many people in India...





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Legion

[jimfields33]

14. I think we are learning more about just how widespread it is.

I know I was ignorant in thinking it was only some wacky white guy from the south exclusively involved. Clearly I was very wrong. But that’s what makes this site so special. The education is priceless!

[Effete Snob]

16. Two questions you might want to look into...

Who were the original Aryans?

Why did Hitler adopt a symbol from India?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan

[BumRushDaShow]

22. There is an old saying...

(with a number of variations but.... )

If you're white, you're alright.
If you're brown, stick around.
If you're yellow, you're mellow.
If you're black, get back.

Adapted from a 1947 blues song -

There are many who are often dubbed by the black community, as "honorary whites"... a status that can get stripped away at any time and out of nowhere.

[JI7]

23. This is 2023 and the guy is from Missouri

and Hindus will usually not have that on a flag .

[Effete Snob]

24. You know his religion?

I have no idea what you think the year or his state of residence has to do with his obvious (a) possession of a Nazi flag, and (b) attempt to breach the White House.

I don't think "Hindus will usually crash trucks into the White House" either, but nobody said anything about Hindus.

There's a boatload of Nazis from Missouri, though, that's for sure.

[JI7]

27. He has a Hindu name and he is Indian. But I don't know if he considers himself Hindu

i'm responding to the things you posted from WW2 .

[Effete Snob]

30. Yes, and...

There are high-caste Indian Hindus who consider themselves to be the "Aryans" of particular significance in Nazi ideology.

In fact, prior to the war, that was used by the British to drive a wedge between Brahmins and lower-caste Indians.

Your problem is that you think the Nazi definition of "white" is narrower than it actually is. There were plenty of non-white Nazi supporters in WWII and there are plenty today.

[IronLionZion]

34. They naively believed Germany would help them gain freedom from the British

and it was mostly prisoners in Europe who wanted a chance of freedom.

Plenty of Indians including my own ancestors fought on the Allied side.

[oldsoftie]

37. And that "freedom" would've ended up being slaves to the Germans

[IronLionZion]

44. Nazis would have just shot Gandhi at his first protest

Germany would have been way worse

[obamanut2012]

25. Modi

[Kennah]

57. Were the Italians Aryans?

[LonePirate]

4. If someone else rented the truck and he was driving it, they are going to have a very bad day.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. He's a bag-holding mule

[jimfields33]

6. I can't get over POC having nazi tendencies. Just to strange to contemplate.

[getagrip_already]

10. There are a lot of non-white populations that hate jews....

And "the gays", and pretty much everything the nazis hated.

And we know nazi "values" get warped into all kinds of shapes to hate others, even when the original nazis would have hated them also.

It isn't a whites only club.

[jimfields33]

12. It seems like this year especially, that is becoming clear.

[Effete Snob]

13. I'm surprised at the surprise, frankly

Maybe it's because I've never been able to make sense out of various racial categorization schemes, but have Japanese people been "white" all this time?



Some never gave it up...

[muriel_volestrangler]

17. I'm surprised you think the minority opportunistic nationalism of 80 years ago

is a sufficient explanation for modern support of Nazism that was exposed as fully racist and genocidal.

[Effete Snob]

18. Then explain that modern picture from Japan

I am not posing a "sufficient explanation for modern Nazism", but I'm not surprised it attracts a range of adherents.

A swastika flag was recovered from the truck. What that flag may have meant to the driver is an open question.

But, among some Indians, yes, they identify as Aryans...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan

In India, the British colonial government had followed de Gobineau's arguments along another line, and had fostered the idea of a superior "Aryan race" that co-opted the Indian caste system in favor of imperial interests. In its fully developed form, the British-mediated interpretation foresaw a segregation of Aryan and non-Aryan along the lines of caste, with the upper castes being "Aryan" and the lower ones being "non-Aryan". The European developments not only allowed the British to identify themselves as high-caste, but also allowed the Brahmins to view themselves as on-par with the British. Further, it provoked the reinterpretation of Indian history in racialist and, in opposition, Indian Nationalist terms.

[muriel_volestrangler]

32. Sure, 'Aryan' is an Indian term, but the use of the German Nazi flag in the USA

against a US government building is not explained by that word. Neither would a lingering Indian Nationalism (which, after all, achieved its objectives shortly after WW2) explain a Nazi flag in the present-day USA.

The modern picture in Japan is far right Japanese nationalists displaying their WW2 flag, and a few with the allied Nazi flag too (the description I can find says it was a racist demonstration in Tokyo, against Chinese and Koreans). Again, this doesn't explain a guy with an Indian-looking name flaunting a Nazi flag in the USA.

[IronLionZion]

35. This dude seemed to have issues with Biden/Dems rather than Jews

since he attacked the white house.

[Effete Snob]

11. .

[Novara]

26. Hate knows no class or racial distinctions

While we're used to southerners being racist, the fact that this sort of hate is spreading EVERYWHERE and across racial and cultural lines is quite frankly, very alarming.

[JI7]

28. He wanted to kill the PResident and take over the Government

[IronLionZion]

33. A brown Nazi named Sai Varshith Kandula is clearly of sound mental health

and is brown enough to have a political agenda.

The concept of brown skinned Nazis is baffling to many of us but it exists. Right wingers are not the best and brightest of any race or religion.

[barbtries]

36. 19-year-old nazi from MO

here i am being thankful that he only drove a truck into the WH instead of committing a mass shooting. always a silver lining.

[JI7]

38. His goal was to take over the Government

[barbtries]

41. very poorly armed

thankfully.

[IronLionZion]

43. And taken alive. Lower death count with no guns

I'm glad there were no explosives in the truck

[oldsoftie]

39. And the RWers will say this is yet another "false flag"

And try to dig up something from his past. Although a 19yr old wont HAVE much of a past

[Bernardo de La Paz]

46. They are, ahead of your post

People are already calling this alleged U-Haul attack near the White
House a false flag
2023-05-23, 24 of 24
Tupelo to NetAddicted
Amazing and Interesting.
Especially after a pretty bad week for the American Stasi. The timing
is also amazing and interesting with Joe 81millionvotes in Japan,
making his usual ‘Churchillian’ speeches and remarks. The choice of a
UHaul truck is also interesting and amazing, especially with a brand
new National Socialist flag inside. Well, we are being told it was inside.
Simply Amazing and Interesting.

Different thread:

19-year-old arrested on multiple charges after crashing into barriers near the White House
2023-05-23 · 23 of 24
joshua c to shadowlands1960

conned by an fbi informant?

[oldsoftie]

54. "Joe 81millionvotes" Thats a new one.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

56. If we had to put it delicately, we'd say "they are skeptical". . . . nt

[jaxexpat]

40. U-Haul? McVeigh used a Ryder.

Timmy's had explosives in the back. This guy forgot the explosives. Not a good look for our burgeoning "militia" culture nor the efficacy of their "mission".

We should all mock the weakness and pointlessly foolish nature of those who would be the "force" behind their perpetual insurrection. Hopefully enough to flush them out, exposing them to the ridicule they deserve.

[Traildogbob]

42. Starting to

Think the young vote may not be our cure all.

[Ilsa]

51. Yeah, at age 19 I wish he could be charged with stupidity as well. nt

[dhol82]

45. I look at this as a preliminary attack

Remember that Bin Laden orchestrated a first attack on the WTC. They learned from that one and were very successful for the second attempt.
This guy might have trying to scope out the security for the White House. Of course this presupposes that his group would be smart enough to do anything with the information.
I just hope this was only a one-off by a RWNJ.

[Wednesdays]

47. Rental truck? Nazi flag?

Good thing he wasn't packing a ton of explosives, a la Timothy McVeigh!

[Grins]

50. Threats, weapons, Nazi flag, red state...i.e., he's a Republican!

[LymphocyteLover]

59. one thing for sure is that he wasn't radicalized by Democratic/liberal messaging or by LGBTQ people