BURKE, Va. (AP) — Authorities are looking into an incident caught on video that appears to show a high-ranking Navy official pointing a gun at people during a confrontation in a northern Virginia neighborhood.
In video obtained by CBS News, a man who appears to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy Karnig Ohannessian stands on a sidewalk in front of a two-story suburban home, arguing with a group of young men, telling them to leave and pointing a gun at them. Meanwhile, a woman tries to calm him, telling him to get in the house and at one point, pushing his arm down and away from the men.
Fairfax County Police spokeswoman Officer Megan Hawkins said by telephone that officers responded to reports of disorderly conduct and a man brandishing a gun on June 11 in a Burke neighborhood, but the alleged victims left by the time they arrived. Two days later, she says a person made a report at a station and an officer went to the same block to arrest a man, but the magistrate’s office declined a warrant. Hawkins declined to identify the man since the warrant was declined.
In a statement, Rear Adm. Dawn Cutler, Navy Chief of Information, said officials are aware of the incident and video. “Mr. Ohannessian’s supervisor is taking the appropriate action, to include working to understand the full details of what occurred.”
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“Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy Karnig Ohannessian stands on a sidewalk in front of a two-story suburban home, arguing with a group of young men, telling them to leave and pointing a gun at them.”
Fire him, decommision him, deny him a pension, send him to anger management classes after a couple years in the brig.
We don’t need people like this guy in the command structure of the military.
Well, he is a white guy…so I forsee a community service medal.
The guy’s gun was more convenient than his cell phone? Why didn’t he just call the local cops?
There will be exactly zero consequence for this lunatic. He’s a white, military officer. End of story. Had he been a black man, the cops would have arrived, shot him dead, then asked questions. The Navy brass will circle the ships and white wash this clearly crazed act of privilege.
He seems nice.