Trump’s Mar-a-Lago security breach: Officials shoot Connecticut woman’s SUV after she crashes through checkpoints

“We’re gonna fire when our lives are our danger, and there’s a danger to the public,” said Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw when asked why authorities shot at Roemhild’s car.

“This is not a terrorist, this is someone who was impaired somehow,” Bradshaw said.

“Someone who was driving very recklessly.”

Police are seeking a search warrant for a motel room where Roemhild was apprehended about 15 minutes after the incident began.

Bradshaw said a police officer went to The Breakers resort at about 11:38 a.m. ET in response to reports of a woman acting “strange.”

The office saw Roemhild, behaving irrationally, “doing some kind of dance” on top of her vehicle, Bradshaw said.

Roemhild got into her SUV after the officer drove up, and did not pay attention to him when he walked up to her vehicle to talk to her.

“She tried to put the vehicle into drive,” and the officer then “actually smashed the windows out and tried to grab the steering wheel,” Bradshaw said.

“That didn’t work,” he noted.

Roemhild then sped off, with the officer in pursuit.

The officer lost sight of her in traffic, Bradshaw said.

Roemhild then drove toward Mar-a-Lago and “smashed through the first checkpoint” and then through the second checkpoint, he said.

“The security and Secret Service” agents at that second checkpoint “moved out of the way just in time,” Bradshaw said.

Officials then fired at the SUV, he said.

“We didn’t know if there was somebody with a car bomb,” Bradshaw said.

The SUV drove off after being fired upon.

It was located when a license plate reader spotted it near a motel.

“The driver jumped out and was trying to flee to a room. The trooper did a great job and tackled and took her into custody there,” Bradshaw said.

Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/31/two-people-in-custody-after-security-breach-at-trump-mar-a-lago-resort-police.html