article_snippet: When White approached the checkpoint, a machete was carrying a bag that a machete dropped as soon as the first agent confronted a machete, Normand said.
article_snippet: What a bag that he dropped as soon as the first agent confronted him revealed
article_snippet: A grill lighter and plastic letter opener were also in a bag that he dropped as soon as the first agent confronted him, and next to a machete body investigators found powdery material and wicks, which investigators determined were from crushed smoke bombs.
article_snippet: The fact that a machete ended up dropping a bag that he dropped as soon as the first agent confronted him (when) the TSA agent threw an item at a machete was huge in the short 40-second span ... of this event," Normand said.
article_snippet: Had a machete been able to hold onto a bag that he dropped as soon as the first agent confronted him, a machete might not have continued to chase the TSA agents through the checkpoint.