Police arrested a 33 -year -old Hawthorne man as part of a series of online threats directed against Tiktok’s headquarters in Culver City.
The City Police Department City said Tiktok employees received a threat to social networks on Friday, prompted security to evacuate the site of Bristol Parkway.
Police traced the threat to Joseph Mayuyo and converged on his Hawthorne house on Saturday, but he made more threats online and said that he would not be taken alive, according to a police press release.
The crisis negotiators spent 90 minutes talking to him before going out and going, police said. It was reserved to make criminal threats.
It was not clear from the press release if Mayuyo had a prior link with the social media company.
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