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Second gentleman Doug Emhoff was evacuated from an event in a Washington, D.C. school after the school reported a bomb threat.
The Hill reports:
About five minutes after Emhoff arrived at the school’s history wing, a Secret Service agent ushered him out. Emhoff’s staff relayed to reporters attending the event that there was a security threat reported by the school to Secret Service.
A spokesperson for D.C. Public Schools told a reporter at the scene there was a bomb threat reported at the school. Teachers and students in the building were also evacuated.
“We had a threat today to the facility so … basically we took the precaution of evacuating everybody, as you saw. I think everyone is safe. The building is clear. But I don’t have any specific details at this moment,” press secretary Enrique Gutierrez said.
Emhoff’s event was one of the ways the White House is seeking to highlight Black history month. Dunbar was the first high school in the United States to serve African-Americans, according to its website, and its alumni include Washington, D.C., Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), and Lawrence Chambers, who was the first African-American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy to reach the rank of admiral.
