Police: Man holed in up room of downtown Minneapolis hotel

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police are in a standoff with a man who is holed up in a downtown hotel where a national convention of journalists is being held.

Police spokesman John Elder says the man was holed up in a room Thursday afternoon. He says rooms around him have been evacuated.

Elder says there is no threat to public safety. No other details were released.

The National Association of Black Journalists is holding its convention at the hotel.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Police-Man-holed-in-up-room-of-downtown-6429756.php

[TygrBright]

1. Dear godz, no one tell the alcoholics of the world that "holing up in a hotel room"...

...is going to result in a police standoff.

We'll have to hire more police and who needs that?

yeeeesh....

Shoddy half-ass journalism, and that broke another irony meter, considering the event at the hotel...

bewilderedly,
Bright

[EL34x4]

3. No kidding.

I've "holed up" in hotel rooms every time my ship pulled in to port. Stayed drunk and ordered room service the whole time. It was great.

Glad the cops never showed up.

[valerief]

2. I don't get it. Is the assumption he's got a gun and will use it and the press

is no longer allowed to report he has a gun? How is this news?

[KamaAina]

4. Are Brian Williams and Bill-O accounted for?

[jberryhill]

5. I was holed up in a hotel room once

I always figure if you get bored, just ring up 911 and tell them "I'm in my place, and I'm not coming out!"

[Lint Head]

6. I was holed up in a hotel room with actuals holes in it. Bullet holes.

[frazzled]

7. Try the local paper, not one from Houston

It's apparently a threatened suicide situation. From the Star-Tribune, in a side bar (not a news story, just a scroll):

We're following the SWAT team situation at the Minneapolis Hilton closely. Minneapolis police say there is a suspected suicidal man in a room at the hotel, but they have not said whether he is armed. They have evacuated nearby rooms as a precaution but say there is no danger to public safety, and patrons of the hotel are otherwise free to come and go.

This is not major news.