A man drove his car into a sign Monday morning at Lafayette Square Park, prompting the White House to go into lockdown.
Videos on social media showed a man emerging from a smoking silver sedan and fighting with federal agents and National Guard troops on the scene before he was taken into custody.
The Secret Service ordered journalists to stay in the Briefing Room in the West Wing after the incident happened around 10 a.m.
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WRC-TV reported that another person tried jumping over a security barrier at a different part of the White House perimeter around the same time.
Authorities are trying to determine if the two incidents are connected.
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