Sen. Bernie Sanders was forced to take cover behind a car Thursday afternoon as a high-speed chase came to an end near him on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.
Sanders was unharmed in the incident, but the driver of the vehicle that was evading police is dead, according to multiple press reports.
Spokesman Michael Briggs says the Vermont independent was returning to the Dirksen Senate Office Building from a caucus meeting in the Capitol when the incident took place. He was standing at the corner of 1st and Constitution Ave. NE with Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and about to cross Constitution Ave.
“He saw police cars racing by and heard four or five shots,” Briggs says. “A police officer nearby told him and other senators to get on the ground.”
After taking cover behind a car for “a couple minutes,” Briggs says, Sanders was ushered back inside by the Capitol Police.
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