Gay Rights Organization Briefly Evacuated After Bomb Threat
The Washington, D.C., headquarters of the gay-rights organization Human Rights Campaign was evacuated this morning after D.C. police passed on an unspecified bomb threat, according to Metro Weekly.
The local gay-affairs newspaper reported the threat via its Twitter feed. The D.C. police notified HRC of a "potential bomb threat" at 11:45 a.m., and the organization cleared the building, telling Metro Weekly that "out of an abundance of caution the building has been evacuated and police are assessing the situation."
BREAKING: DC Police notified @HRC at 11:45a of a potential bomb threat to a DC #LGBT organization. More to come at metroweekly.com.
— Metro Weekly (@metroweekly) May 15, 2012
The police gave an "all clear" roughly an hour later. Get ready for more of this sort of thing.