North Carolina state Senate candidate arrested after police standoff 

A North Carolina state Senate candidate was arrested Monday after an hours-long standoff with police, which he detailed as it was happening in a series of posts to social platform X.

Jonathan D. Miller, a Libertarian running to represent North Carolina State Senate District 16, was arrested at about 3 p.m. after the standoff, which occurred at his apartment complex near the Lochmere neighborhood in Cary, N.C., according to local news station WRAL.

“The whole police department is chasing me with guns drawn. This should be fun,” Miller said in a morning X post.

“I’ve got six shots and the high ground. I hope they don’t find me, but if they do it’s going to be a hell of a show,” the........

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