Police have arrested a 33-year-old Hawthorne man in reference to a collection of on-line threats directed in opposition to TikTok’s Culver Metropolis headquarters.
The Culver Metropolis Police Division mentioned that TikTok workers obtained a risk on social media Friday, prompting safety to evacuate the Bristol Parkway location.
Police traced the risk to Joseph Mayuyo and converged on his Hawthorne dwelling Saturday, however he made extra threats on-line and declared that he wouldn’t be taken alive, based on a police information launch.
Disaster negotiators spent 90 minutes speaking to him earlier than he walked outdoors and surrendered, police mentioned. He was booked on a cost of creating felony threats.
It was not clear from the discharge whether or not Mayuyo had any prior connection to the social media firm.
