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A 19-year-old man was taken into custody in front of Old City Hall on Friday morning after pulling out a power tool and saying he had a revolver, according to the Toronto Police Service.

The man wielded a bladeless saw in front of reporters lined up at the courthouse for the Ghomeshi trial. He was eventually tackled and held down by several people.

Police received a call shortly before 7:30 a.m. that there was a man with a weapon yelling at reporters lined up in front of the courthouse, said Jenifferjit Sidhu, a police spokesperson.

“The journalists and cameramen apprehended the man,” said Sidhu. When police arrived, the man was struggling and spitting at the people holding him down.

Christina Stevens, a reporter from Global News, tweeted that colleague Adam Miller was one of the people in line who tackled the teen.