Philadelphia: Evacuations underway after bomb threats near vote counting centre

[Roland99]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/philadelphia-bomb-threat-us-election-pennsylvania-vote-count-b1649814.html

Evacuations were underway in Philadelphia on Friday afternoon after bomb threats were called in to an area near where ballot counting is taking place.

Philadelphia police said that security in the Fashion District received two calls from the same individual saying that a bomb was going to go off.

This is ALL on trump!!


https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/11/06/police-fashion-district-philadelphia-evacuated-after-receiving-bomb-threats/

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The Fashion District Philadelphia has been evacuated after bomb threats were called in on Friday afternoon. Philadelphia police say Fashion District security received two calls from the same person that a bomb was going to go off.

Security has evacuated the mall at 901 Market St. in Center City.

SEPTA has stopped all trains at the station.

The Fashion District Philadelphia is near the Pennsylvania Convention Center where ballot counting is ongoing and where supporters of Joe Biden and President Donald Trump are gathering.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

1. And it begins

Weekend could be ugly.

[TwilightZone]

2. CallerID: 202-555-1234 Barron, J.

My apologies for joking at a time like this, but this is no surprise to anyone who lived through the past four years.

[Brainfodder]

6. You repeated yourself, but I like the emphasis!

REITERATION rules!

[TwilightZone]

7. I rewrote it and forgot to edit.

lol

[Srkdqltr]

3. And that helps?? How??

[Mike 03]

4. Guess it was only a matter of time

Sorry to have to say that.

If it never escalates beyond empty threats, we will consider ourselves lucky.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

5. Given that Don Jr has called for all out war and the entire family is saying the election is being

stolen, this is logically a very likely outcome. Something tells me Philadelphia won't be the only area where this happens.
The entire family is fomenting violence and their devoted minions have no idea how deep into this cult they are.

[Brainfodder]

8. Of course they did....

Of course this is on the Monster!

Probably catalyst to get states to call it other than PA?

[Iwasthere]

9. I ended up having one of my warning posts go to DU jury

[link:https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214465127|

[struggle4progress]

10. All clear after bomb threat

by Chris Palmer, Updated: 19 minutes ago

Police found no explosives or any other suspicious devices at the Fashion District after they searched the building Friday due to a bomb threat at the mall, which partially borders the Convention Center, where votes for the presidential election were being counted.

Police said K-9 officers had completed the search by 3 p.m. and found nothing inside the mall. The investigation began earlier in the afternoon, when police said mall security received two calls from a person claiming “a bomb was going to go off in the Fashion District.” Police and security officers began forcing people to evacuate ...

As police investigated the possible threat, Commissioner Danielle Outlaw and District Attorney Larry Krasner held a news conference inside the Convention Center, at which Krasner said a separate crime nearby Thursday night — the arrest of two men carrying guns outside the vote counting — did not appear to have any connection to any larger effort to cause disruption.

https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-bomb-threat-fashion-district-convention-center-20201106.html

[C_U_L8R]

11. Every Thing Can Be Traced

Idiots

[gordianot]

15. Instantly and the number tracked if with a cell phone.

The few pay phones left in public areas are monitored by cameras.

[colorado_ufo]

12. More fine people.

[BainsBane]

13. Trump is a terrorist

[LiberalLovinLug]

14. I won't be able to breathe until Biden is officially declared the winner

[Heartstrings]

17. I won't be able to breathe until he's sworn in....nt

[ancianita]

24. Not even then. Security take the approach that they've got to double down on watching his back.

[Heartstrings]

25. Very true...and Kamala!

[ancianita]

26. Absolutely!

[LiberalLovinLug]

27. OMG you are right.

I wouldn't even put it past Trump to, during the transition, hint at it in another super-spreader rally.
Not that his deplorable army doesn't know how to impress their Dear Leader already. He's already successfully enticed them to kill people.

[ancianita]

28. He's got some crazy ass militia out there. Not to say that there isn't strong intel about all

possible sniper positions anywhere in DE or DC.
Biden and Kamala need to lay low and do Big Transition work while The Law handles the drama.

There will be no safe time for Biden while Trump tries to churn his base. SDNY should take care of that.

Twitter, too, should delete his account once Biden is the official winner.

[JDC]

16. Terrorism - the emerging platform of the new GOP

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. I can pretty much guarantee that such threats are totally bogus.

Yeah, I know that they need to be treated seriously, but just like death threats of all kinds, the people making them only want to scare people and do not even remotely have the wherewithal to carry them out.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. Philly Police stopped a truck with dynamite earlier this week

In June they arrested some group that was using short dynamite to blow up ATMs and make off with the loot.

It's a major city, anything can be going on at any point in time.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. Different kind of thing altogether.

Notice they weren't making threats. They were actually doing something.

About the only group that made bomb threats that were real bomb threats, was the IRA. Otherwise, people who plant bombs, just do so and don't bother to inform anyone.

[bucolic_frolic]

21. Oh.

That must be why they never evacuate after bomb threats.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

29. I used to work at National Airport in Washington DC.

In the mid-seventies we endured a series of bomb threats. The first half dozen or more times the airport was dutifully shut down, we all went outside, and a search with dogs was made. Never anything. Sometimes it was just someone wanting to cause confusion, other times (and these started getting caught) were people who were running late for a flight and figured this was a good way to make sure it didn't take off before they got there.

[ffr]

22. Let the FBI find these anti-democratic terrorists and throw the book at 'em.

I don't recall this happening when tRump/Putin stole the election.

[Skittles]

23. and they call us "radical"

rightwing terrorists are COWARDS