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Blogger Livestreamed Police Standoff

ARRESTING

As officers attempted to serve warrant.

Did he Instagram being cuffed, too? Baltimore blogger Frank James MacArthur was taken into police custody Saturday after a five-hour standoff that he broadcast over the Internet. Officers arrived at the 47-year-old man’s house to serve two warrants linked to a 2009 gun case when MacArthur appealed to digital crowds—and threatened officers over social media, according to police. MacArthur, who complained to a police negotiator over speakerphone, has made social-media posts in recent days concerning his status as a “fugitive.”

Read it at The Baltimore Sun

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