But rather than confronting him, they cordoned off the area and brought in crisis negotiators to talk to the man, calm him down, and wait him out.
The street was cordoned off to give him quiet.
Reporters were cordoned in front of him like the White House press corps — except that an audio snag kept their questions inaudible.
One man, a suspected police infiltrator, was caught with a gun on Tuesday quite close to me, and I was impressed with the way volunteers disarmed him and dragged him to an army unit — all while forming a protective cordon around him to keep him from being harmed.
"I am in awe of his entrance," John McIntyre, a delegate from Sioux Falls, S.D., said as Mr. Kerry strode by him on a corridor cordoned by red velvet rope.
Mr. Meyerowitz reached for his nonexistent press card, but before he could come up empty-handed, the officer directed him to the press area cordoned off with yellow police tape.
When Mr. Ortega cast his vote, non-Sandinista reporters were cordoned off, while those for Multinoticias on the scene asked him about the weather.
By the time Mr. Thornton called 911, the police and SWAT teams had cordoned off the building and were sweeping it looking for him.
Qadir is known to be close to Pakistan's current army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, who arranged several visits for him to the Abbottabad compound, which has been cordoned off by security forces since the US operation.
"He will be cordoned off and no one is allowed to pose next to him," Ms Keller insisted.
