Tom Witnesses Wacko in Downtown DC Street

Yesterday afternoon around 3:30pm, a man with some weird agenda that police are still trying to figure out, held up traffic outside Tom's office building. Tom's building was evacuated so he and his co-workers watched this unfold as the man stood on his van with 2 cryptic signs and molotov cocktails. Here's the story from WUSA-TV, a local television station:
WASHINGTON, DC (WUSA) -- A man was in downtown DC protesting with signs that said "Justice" and "Not my $200 million." He was stopped in the middle of 17th Street and K Street NW when he got on the top of his van.
A witness on a metrobus behind the van says he saw the man pull into the intersection, jump out of the van and put two signs up on either side of the van. He then jumped on top of the vehicle holding up a sign that said, "Help me."
He was holding at least three beer bottles with rags in them. The witness then told the bus driver that he better move the bus, because it appeared the man had Molotov cocktails with him. As the bus pulled around, they saw the man light the rags on fire and throw at least three of the Molotov cocktails on the asphalt, not directed at anyone.
Police got there and were trying to get the man off of the van until DC Fire got there with a step ladder. At that point, DC Police got on top of the van and were able to convince the man to come down.