Police in America arrested a 19-year-old after he attempted to pull a police officer's
gun from its holster inside a Las Vegas theater where Trump, the
presumptive Republican nominee, was holding a campaign rally.
Police
said Michael Sandford, a Briton, struck up a conversation with a Las
Vegas Metropolitan Police officer under the pretense that he was seeking
to get an autograph.
During the conversation, police said Sandford
tried to pull the officer's service weapon from its holster.
Other officers also assigned to provide
security at the event were quickly able to detain Sandford and
authorities said there was no further disruption to the event.
Sandford
told police that he drove to Las Vegas from California "to kill Trump,"
according to the complaint, after hearing a few days earlier in the
news that he was expected there.
He was in the country illegally, his visa having expired.
On June 17, he practiced shooting a gun for the first time at a gun range in Las Vegas.
"(Sandford)
further stated that if he were on the street tomorrow, he would try
this again," reads the complaint, obtained by CNN. "Sandford claimed he
had been planning to kill Trump for about a year but decided to act on
this occasion because he finally felt confident about trying it."
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