第二位绅士道格·埃姆霍夫(Doug Emhoff)周二在华盛顿特区的邓巴高中参加一个活动,由于报道的“安全威胁”,他被一名美国特勤局特工护送出了房间
据媒体报道,下午2点18分,一名特勤局特工将埃姆霍夫带出房间。报道称,几分钟后,邓巴的校长跟上了。
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副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯的丈夫道格·埃姆霍夫被迅速带离了...
他的工作人员告诉游泳池,学校向特勤局报告了安全威胁。
下午2点34分,对讲机里传来一份学校通知,呼吁教师撤离学校,记者也离开了大楼。
DC公立学校的新闻秘书恩里克·古铁雷斯说,“这是一个明显的炸弹威胁……这是一个炸弹威胁。我们在采取预防措施,疏散-疏散所有人。似乎所有的学生都出去了,很安全。”
早些时候,埃姆霍夫的办公室发布了一份新闻稿,称为了纪念黑人历史月,埃姆霍夫将访问学校,“会见正在参加一个项目的学生,该项目帮助他们在个人层面上与历史相关联。”
他的妻子,副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯,当时不在他身边。
埃姆霍夫的通讯主管凯蒂·彼得斯在一份声明中说,在美国特勤局“意识到学校存在安全威胁”后,埃姆霍夫是安全的。
声明称:“美国特勤局意识到第二绅士与学生和教师会面的学校存在安全威胁。“埃姆霍夫先生很安全,学校已经撤离。我们感谢特勤局和特区警察的工作。”
特勤局发言人在一份声明中说:“今天下午,在特勤局受保护者参加的一次活动中,特勤局意识到场地受到威胁,立即疏散了受保护者。“目前没有任何信息表明威胁是针对我们的被保护人的。为了维护行动安全,特勤局不讨论我们的被保护人,也不讨论进行我们保护行动的手段和方法,”发言人说。
在周二晚些时候的新闻发布会上,华盛顿特区警方表示,根据初步调查,埃姆霍夫访问期间邓巴高中的炸弹威胁似乎与最近针对历史黑人学院和大学的炸弹威胁无关,埃姆霍夫没有成为目标。
大都会警察局执行助理警长Ashan M. Benedict告诉记者,炸弹威胁“似乎与过去几周发生的事情无关,但也不能排除这种可能性”。
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff escorted out of DC high school because of 'security threat'
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, attending an event at Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, was escorted out of the room by a U.S. Secret Service agent because of a reported "security threat."
Emhoff was ushered out of the room at 2:18 p.m. by a Secret Service agent, according to a press pool report. Dunbar's principal followed a few minutes later, the report said.
His staff informed the pool there was a security threat reported by the school to the Secret Service.
A school announcement came over the intercom at 2:34 p.m. calling on teachers to evacuate the school and reporters left the building as well.
Enrique Gutierrez, the press secretary for DC Public Schools, said, "It was an apparent bomb threat … It was a bomb threat. We're taking precautions, evacuation -- evacuating everybody. Seems like all the students are out and safe."
Earlier, Emhoff's office put out a news release saying that, in commemoration of Black History Month, Emhoff would visit the school "to meet with students who are participating in a program that helps them relate to history on a personal level."
His wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, was not with him at the time.
Emhoff's communications director, Katie Peters, said in a statement that Emhoff is safe after the U.S. Secret Service had been "made aware of a security threat" at the school.
"U.S. Secret Service was made aware of a security threat at a school where the Second Gentleman was meeting with students and faculty," the statement said. "Mr. Emhoff is safe and the school has been evacuated. We are grateful to Secret Service and D.C. Police for their work."
"This afternoon during an event attended by a Secret Service protectee, the Secret Service was made aware of a threat to the venue and immediately evacuated the protectee," a Secret Service spokesperson said in a statement. "At this time there is no information to indicate the threat was directed toward our protectee. In order to maintain operational security, the Secret Service does not discuss our protectees or the means and methods used to conduct our protective operations," the spokesperson said.
During a news conference later Tuesday, D.C. police said that the bomb threat at Dunbar High School during Emhoff's visit appeared to be unrelated to previous bomb threats recently against Historically Black Colleges and Universities and that Emhoff wasn't targeted, based on a preliminary investigation.
The bomb threat "doesn't appear related and tied to what happened over the last few weeks but again, can't rule it out," Ashan M. Benedict, executive assistant chief of police with the Metropolitan Police Department, told reporters.