A 21-year-old man named Nasire Best shot and killed by agents outside the White House had serially threatened the White House. Court records show prior encounters with the Secret Service, including an involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital and a local police arrest after he claimed he was Jesus Christ. Officers encountered him multiple times near the White House last summer, and an affidavit said he was known to the Secret Service for walking around the complex and inquiring how to gain access at various entry points. He was involuntarily committed on June 26, 2025, for obstructing vehicle entry to part of the complex. The incident is used to argue about political responsibility and security measures.
"Nasire Best, the 21-year-old man shot and killed by agents outside the White House on Saturday, had previous encounters with the Secret Service, court records show - including one occasion where he was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital and another where local police arrested him while he claimed "he was Jesus Christ.""
"Officers had encountered Best multiple times near the White House last summer, according to a court affidavit, which says he was "known to the Secret Service" for "walking around the White House complex inquiring how to gain access at various entry points." He was involuntarily committed on June 26, 2025, for "obstructing vehicle entry" to part of the White House complex, the court documents said."
"This has led right wing nuts to demand that "they" stop trying to kill "my" President, and equally nutty types to demand, again, a bunker-ballroom that would not prevent such incidents. Democrats are to blame, these right wing nuts say, for the serial attempts on Trump."
"There's a facial similarity between most if not all those attempting to kill Trump and Taylor Taranto, the mentally ill Jan6er who took the address Trump himself posted to Truth Social and started to stalk Barack Obama in an armed van (one of the Trumpiest judges continues to let Taranto violate the terms of his release). Which is to say, Trump literally goaded one of his own supporters to target the former President."
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