A man with a rifle was arrested in a park near the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, police said.
Police confronted the 21-year-old man from Atlanta after someone saw him with the gun in a park near Senate office buildings and told an officer, U.S. Capitol Police said in a statement. Police demanded that he drop the gun, but he refused and they used a Taser stun gun to subdue him.
The park and roads in the area across from Washington’s Union Station were closed for about two hours as officers searched the area and the man’s belongings.
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