(Photo Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsubrgh, PA) Acting United States Attorney Troy Revetti announced yesterday that forty-six-year-old Donald Phillip Henson of Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating, or interfering with a governmental officer or employee and damaging government property. Henson got taken into custody yesterday. According to the affidavit filed in support of the complaint, at 2:40 a.m. yesterday, Henson rammed his vehicle into a security gate protecting the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office complex,
directly next to a security booth that is staffed 24 hours a day. Henson left the vehicle after the crash and got an American flag from the driver’s side rear door and put it on the gate that he damaged. Henson then left the area before he was taken into custody yesterday. Security camera footage from both the FBI and several area businesses also caught the incident on video. Henson told the FBI that he rammed the security gate at the FBI Pittsburgh Field Office complex because he wanted to “make a statement” even though he knew that at the time he hit that gate that there was a guard in the security booth. Henson admitted these things to the FBI upon his apprehension by law enforcement. “Sic semper tyrannis,” which is a Latin phrase meaning “thus always to tyrants,” that is famously associated with John Wilkes Booth, who is said to have shouted the phrase after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, was also stated by Henson during the time of the crash.