LOS ANGELES (KABC) — A man accused of impersonating a U.S. Marshal was arrested Friday at a campaign event at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre where Democratic presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. was speaking.

The Los Angeles Police Department said it got a call around 4:30 p.m. regarding a disturbance at the theatre in the 4400 block of West Eighth Street in the Mid-Wilshire Area.

According to a post on X, formerly known as Twitter, Kennedy said the man claimed to be part of his security team.

“The man, wearing two shoulder holsters with loaded pistols and spare ammunition magazines was carrying a U.S. Marshal badge on a lanyard and belt clip federal ID,” said Kennedy.

The FBI has since been notified. The suspect, who has not been identified, never brandished the gun or threatened anyone, police told ABC News.

He was taken to Wilshire Station where it was decided that LAPD would remain the lead agency. The suspect will “probably be booked on a gun charge,” according to the station’s Watch Commander.

Further booking information on the suspect was not readily available.

Kennedy thanked his security staff and LAPD for its rapid response.

In July, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and a bipartisan committee rejected a request from Kennedy for Secret Service protection following an unusually early request from Kennedy’s campaign. Kennedy said at the time that his request “included a 67-page report…detailing unique and well-established security and safety risks aside from commonplace death threats.”

Kennedy, whose father and uncle were both assassinated, raised the issue of a Secret Service detail again in his statement on Friday night, claiming he was the “first presidential candidate in history” to be denied protection upon request.

“I’m still entertaining a hope that President Biden will allow me Secret Service protection,” Kennedy said.

“Major presidential candidates” do receive Secret Service protection during the primaries but there are a number of requirements that candidates must meet, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Once such requirements are met, the secretary of Homeland Security consults with an advisory committee and one additional member selected by the other members of the committee — usually from the Secret Service — and determines if a candidate is eligible for Secret Service protection.

Notably, this is the first time Kennedy has explicitly acknowledged that Gavin de Becker and Associates, whose namesake donated $4.5 million to a pro-Kennedy Super PAC, is providing his security detail.

Asked in July by ABC News if he employed private security following the rejection of his request, Kennedy was cagey about the details despite the presence of men wearing pins with the insignia of Gavin de Becker and Associates.

“I’m not going to tell you my security arrangements for obvious reasons,” Kennedy said.

The candidate’s father, U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated June 5, 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel, less than 2 miles east of the Wilshire Ebell Theatre.

ABC News and City News Service, Inc. contributed to this report.