I went to Washington, DC on Thursday (July 21) and I was walking the streets. I heard sirens and saw a lot of police cars/vans. They went past us and I looked in one car just to see what was going on (I thought someone was getting chased). It was a guy in a suit (everyone is in suits down there so I thought nothing of it). My friend's dad looked back and said it was Obama because they had flags on the car. We were at a street corner waiting to cross the street, when we hear the sirens again. He went right past us and we got a good look at him. A stranger yelled, "It's Obama!"
I was so close to him!!
How often does he get police escorted? If he doesn't want to get noticed by the public, then why does he have sirens and flags for the public to recognize him?
It's not just Obama that does this. It is celebrities that go on tour with a big picture of them on their tour bus, but they hate when paparazzi follows them. I don't understand this. Why?
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It likely wasn't the President. It very well could have been any number of other people. Flags are often on the cars of other dignitaries like foreign heads of state. The President very rarely travels by car in the city because doing so is a security risk that often entails closing down streets prior to his motorcade. Most of time the President takes a military helicopter in and out of the city to avoid the problems his actual motorcade causes.
That's not the police. It's the Secret Service. And they escort him everywhere he goes.
Why could they try this and why could you desire that to happen? in case you desire to kill the president because of the fact he suggested 2 different law enforcement officials thousands of miles away acted stupidly for the time of an arrest, it relatively is not too bright.
Is he really the only president you have seen who is escorted EVERYWHERE??? Because he is not!!! It comes with the job.
Where does he escort them ?
no sh*t sherlock
Secret Service follows him everywhere
Those are his male strippers...
yah, I think this is must