Several capitals of North American states received on Wednesday Bomb threatswhich resulted in brief evacuations and closures while the authorities investigated, without there is no evidence of explosives It has been found.
These bomb threats followed a series of false reports about shootings at the homes of public officials in recent days, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi and Montana were among the states where they took place. evacuations in offices or state buildings.
Congressmen from Kentucky and Mississippi, for example, have already resumed legislative sessions. The governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, mentioned, on the social network
Beshear added that everyone was safe and that the authorities were aware of similar threats made to other offices in all the country.
US authorities closed the Mississippi Capitol after a bomb threat on the second day of the legislative session.
The state Senate postponed its morning meeting after the building was evacuated and bomb-sniffing dogs roamed the building, until it was deemed safe.
“This is an ongoing investigation and there are no further threats to the Capitol or surrounding buildings,” said Bailey Martin, spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.
Shutdowns were brief in most states. The Montana Capitol building reopened two hours after the threat, after a search of the building was completed and no dangers were identified, Department of Administration spokeswoman Megan Grotzke said.
Other states received threats but did not close. A “mass email” was sent to “multiple state entities” in Wyoming, but it was determined not to be a security threat and no offices were closed, Wyoming Highway Patrol Lt. Kyle McKay noted.
Several elected officials were subject to false emergency calls [‘swatting’, na expressão em inglês, uma prática que tem como objetivo desencadear uma resposta policial].
Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, for example, was the subject of a fake emergency call on Christmas morning.
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows was also the target of a ‘swipe’ a day after she excluded former President Donald Trump from that state’s presidential primary by invoking the Constitution’s insurrection clause, a decision which was appealed by the Republican.
Other officials targeted in recent days include Republican Rep. Brandon Williams of New York, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, Boston House Speaker Michelle Wu and Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost.
Source: TSF
