Maine lawyer arrested after dressing as bin Laden
A Maine attorney(律师)who released information in 2000 about President George W. Bush‘s drunken driving conviction(定罪)was arrested on Tuesday after he dressed up as al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and waved a fake gun at traffic. 周二缅因州的一名律师近日假扮本·拉登,还拿着假枪在公路上示威遭警方逮捕。该男子在2000年曾指控布什总统酒后驾车。 Police in South Portland, Maine, arrested Thomas Connolly, 49, of Scarborough, Maine, and charged him with criminal threatening. He was released on bail(保释), local officials said. 缅因州的南伯特兰警署逮捕了49岁的托马斯·克龙尼,并以故意威胁罪起诉了他。这名男子来自缅因州的市卡保罗。当地警察说他已经获得保释。 Lt. Todd Bernard said the police department received calls about a man wearing Middle Eastern garb(服装)and a bin Laden mask and carrying fake dynamite(炸药)standing along an interstate highway(州际公路). When police arrived, they saw Connolly holding a gun. 托德·伯纳德告诉记者,之前警方曾接到一男子电话。该男子站在州际公路中央,身着中东服装,头戴本·拉登面具,携带假炸药,警察到达的时候他手里还举着枪。 "They ordered him to drop the weapon several times and he eventually complied," Bernard said. 伯纳德说“他们命令了他几次要他放下枪他才听从。” It turned out the gun was fake, Bernard said. 后来发现他带的是把假枪。 In a phone interview, Connolly said he‘d been trying to protest a planned change in local tax rules. 克龙尼后来在电话采访中说,他这样做是为了抗议当地即将更改的一项税收规定。 "I didn‘t expect to be arrested," he said. "Obviously I touched a post-9/11 nerve." “我完全没料到会被捕的,”他说,“显然美国人的911恐慌症还没有痊愈。” |