Naked man protests outside White House

May 24, 2014 03:21

AP: US Secret Service personnel sprang into action today outside the White House when a man stripped naked in what appeared to be a bizarre form of protest.

On one of the hottest days of the year so far in the US capital, where temperatures hit at least 26 degrees Celsius, the man ambled up to Secret Service officers at the gate of the White House and then took off all his clothes.

The incident happened shortly before President Barack Obama was due to give a speech at the White House announcing his new pick as housing secretary. The man, named by the Secret Service as Michel Bechard, refused to be subdued and was duly arrested, a spokesman said. Witnesses said uniformed officers covered the man in a foil heat sheet and loaded him into a Secret Service van.

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