Secret Service police on Friday
arrested a man who stripped naked outside the White House fence and fought with
officers.
A Secret Service spokesman identified the man as Michel Bechard and
said he was charged with assault and indecent exposure.
Bechard had approached
uniformed Secret Service officers at a White House security checkpoint at about
3 p.m. EDT/1900 GMT and then "proceeded to get fully undressed," the
spokesman said.
Officers subdued the man, covered him and sent him to a
hospital for treatment of minor injuries suffered in the tussle. A reporter for
the Daily Caller website, who was entering the White House through the same
checkpoint, said the man had told the Secret Service officers he had a 3 p.m.
appointment with President Barack Obama and presented his identification.
The
reporter said the ID was rejected because it was from a foreign country and the
man then began undressing while insisting that he had to keep his appointment
with Obama.
The Reuters
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