Man charged with ramming car into FBI gate in Pittsburgh later used Latin phrase about tyrants

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man who rammed a car into an FBI security gate in Pittsburgh and covered it in an American flag Wednesday later said he did it to “make a statement," the FBI said.

Donald Phillip Henson was captured seven hours after fleeing the crash and invoked a Latin phrase about tyrants, “sic semper tyrannis,” meaning “thus always to tyrants," while talking to the FBI, according to an affidavit. John Wilkes Booth is said to have shouted the phrase after shooting President Abraham Lincoln.