00:18The man who opened fire at the White House checkpoint wasn't a stranger to Secret Service agents.
00:25They had arrested him before. They had committed him to a psychiatric facility. There was even a court order keeping
00:34him away. He came back anyway, this time with a gun.
00:38Saturday evening, 6 p.m., one of the most fortified security checkpoints on the planet, steps from the White House
00:47on Pennsylvania Avenue.
00:49A 21-year-old from Maryland named Nasir Best walks up, reaches into his bag, pulls out a pistol, and
00:58opens fire on Secret Service officers.
01:01Officers fired back. Best was struck, rushed to the hospital, and pronounced dead.
01:07A nearby bystander was also hit, caught in the chaos. Whether by Best's bullets or the officer's response, investigators are
01:17still working that out.
01:19President Trump was inside, safe, unharmed.
01:22But here's what's making people ask hard questions today.
01:27Who was Nasir Best, and how did he get that close?
01:31Because this didn't come out of nowhere. Go back to June 25, 2025.
01:38Best is already on law enforcement's radar.
01:41He blocks vehicular traffic near 15th Street, just outside the White House perimeter.
01:47The incident is serious enough that he's involuntarily committed, taken to a psychiatric facility against his will for mental health
01:56treatment.
01:57That's June. By July 10th, barely two weeks later, he's back.
02:03This time, he bypasses a restricted White House pedestrian control post, walking through an exit turnstile lane, the wrong way
02:12to get past security.
02:14When agents detained him, Best told them something that stopped them cold.
02:19He said he was the modern-day incarnation of Jesus Christ.
02:24He also told officials, and this is the part that should have set off every alarm, that he wanted to
02:31get arrested.
02:32A court order was issued, stay away from the White House, don't come back.
02:38Ten months later, Nasir Best is back at that checkpoint, not to talk, not to loiter, armed with a pistol
02:46in his back,
02:47and he pulls it out and starts shooting at federal officers.
02:50The Secret Service acted immediately, tactically, professionally.
02:56No officers were injured.
02:58The threat was neutralized in seconds.
03:00But the question that's hanging in the air right now is this.
03:04A man with two prior incidents at the White House, a psychiatric hold, a history of claiming to be Jesus
03:12Christ,
03:12and an active court order banning him from the area, how does he walk up to that checkpoint with a
03:19loaded weapon?
03:21There's no confirmed motive yet.
03:23Investigators are still piecing together what drove Nasir Best to show up armed on Saturday evening.
03:30His mental health history is clearly central to this story.
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