Gunman arrested at RFK Jr. campaign event in Los Angeles
An armed man was arrested Friday at a campaign event in Los Angeles for Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr., a Los Angeles police spokesperson confirmed.
The LAPD identified the suspect as Adrian Paul Aispuro, 44. Booking records show Aispuro is being held on a felony charge and a $35,000 bond.
Aispuro allegedly donned shoulder holsters with loaded pistols and spare ammunition magazines and wore a U.S. Marshal’s badge on a federal identification lanyard and belt clip, Kennedy wrote on X, formerly known as from Twitter.
According to Kennedy’s post, the candidate’s private security detained the suspect until the LAPD arrived, after he allegedly attempted to approach Kennedy and pretended to be a member of his security detail.
Kennedy Friday"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/rfk-jr-claims-he-was-denied-secret-service-protection-00108827" target="_empty" data-link="{"linkText":"reiterated his request","link":{"target":"NEW","attributes":(),"URL":"https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/rfk-jr-claims-he-was-denied-secret-service-protection-00108827","_identifier":"0000018a-a045-d059-adff-e0dfa27d0006","_type":"33ac701a-72c1-316a-a3a5-13918cf384df"},"_identifier":"0000018a-a045-d059-adff-e0dfa27d0007","_type":"02ec1f82-5e56-3b8c-af6e-6fc7c8772266"}”>reiterated his request to the White House for Secret Service protection, writing that he “still maintains the hope that President Biden will grant me Secret Service protection.”
“I am the first presidential candidate in history to whom the White House has refused a request for protection,” his message read.
THE"https://www.secretservice.gov/about/faq/general" target="_empty" data-link="{"linkText":"Secret Service States","link":{"target":"NEW","attributes":(),"URL":"https://www.secretservice.gov/about/faq/general","_identifier":"0000018a-a045-d059-adff-e0dfa27d0008","_type":"33ac701a-72c1-316a-a3a5-13918cf384df"},"_identifier":"0000018a-a045-d059-adff-e0dfa27d0009","_type":"02ec1f82-5e56-3b8c-af6e-6fc7c8772266"}”>Secret Service States on its website that “major presidential and vice-presidential candidates and their spouses within 120 days of a general presidential election” are protected by the Secret Service.
After the assassination of Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, Congress changed the law to allow Secret Service protection for major candidates.
Former President Barack Obama received Secret Service protection in May 2007, an “unusually early step”,"https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/us/politics/04obama.html" target="_empty" data-link="{"linkText":"The New York Times noted","link":{"target":"NEW","attributes":(),"URL":"https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/us/politics/04obama.html","_identifier":"0000018a-a045-d059-adff-e0dfa27d000a","_type":"33ac701a-72c1-316a-a3a5-13918cf384df"},"_identifier":"0000018a-a045-d059-adff-e0dfa27d000b","_type":"02ec1f82-5e56-3b8c-af6e-6fc7c8772266"}”>The New York Times noted at the time.
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