[Scan-DC] Park Police Helo spending a fair amount of time over Jud iciary Square this morning

[Doug Kitchener]

re blocking the cross streets, didn't they start doing that after Gerry Ford's limo got broadsided in a motorcade one time?
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----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrew Feinberg <andrew.feinberg at gmail.com>
> To: Brent Marshall <bem-lists at marshall-va.com>
> Cc: Scan DC <Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 10:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [Scan-DC] Park Police Helo spending a fair amount of time over Jud iciary Square this morning
> 
>T hat is correct that POTUS gets the ambulance (more than likely technically a 
> medic unit) bringing up the rear, though I believe the use of MPD to block cross 
> streets is on occasion used for other VIPs depending on the motorcade route and 
> circumstances...certainly the various protective agencies would reserve the 
> right to use all possible tools/methods if called for and would never not use 
> one simply because of who the VIP -isn't-  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>  On Sep 18, 2013, at 9:02 PM, Brent Marshall 
> <bem-lists at marshall-va.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>  On 9/18/2013 12:49 PM, Blair Thompson wrote:
>>> 
>>>  He was probably flying up and down the Mall. I didn't get up on the
>>>  roof to verify his route. "Over Judiciary Square" was the 
> only part
>>>  of which I was certain.
>> 
>> 
>>  I think that the chopper was doing surveillance for a presidential 
> motorcade. I say presidential, for I think that only the president gets the 
> ambulance at the end of the motorcade and has Metropolitan Police vehicles 
> physically blocking traffic on the cross streets. I saw such a motorcade 
> traveling down Pennsylvania Avenue near the National Gallery of Art at 12:21pm.
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