Posted on 05/26/2023 6:22:55 PM PDT by Morgana
A Utah Target has been evacuated and a bomb squad has been called in after multiple threats were made against stores across the state and five in Ohio after the company's annual Pride collection sparked fury.
A Layton Target - located at 810 West 2000 North - was evacuated after receiving multiple bomb threats. A bomb squad and a K9 unit were deployed to the store around 1pm, according to KUTV.
All staff and customers were directed to the parking lot.
Police said stores in Layton, Salt Lake, Taylorsville and Provo were threatened. Authorities became aware of the threats after local news stations received emails threatening danger and referencing the company's new controversial Pride collection.
Five Targets in across Northeast Ohio and Pennsylvania were also threatened, according to Cleveland 19, who received a threatening email listing stores in Stow, North Canton, Boardman, Niles, Ohio and Monaca, Pennsylvania.
'Target is full of [redacted] cowards who turned their back on the LGBT community and decided to cater to homophobic right wing, redneck, bigots, who protested and vandalized their store,' the email to Cleveland 19 read. 'We won't stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us down.
'We are sending you a message, we placed a bomb in the following Targets,' the email continued. 'We will continue to bomb your Targets until you stop cowering and bring back your LBGT merchandise.
'We will not be erased, we won't go quietly.'
Cleveland 19 reported the threatening email to all local police forces and the FBI.
Layton Police Sergeant John Ottesen told KUTV that the threats made in Utah came from a 'bogus email address.'
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Target has become a target?
THAT took a while.
Yeah.
Whatever.
Do I need to look?
White MAGA supremacist?
TYPICAL LEFTIST, GLOBALIST TACTIC…. THREATEN VIOLENCE!
Get out of my bathroom....
Domestic Terrorists.
Publish the Manifesto. Stat.
Fiery, but mostly prideful.
Target has just learned - playing with the LGBT/tranny movement is like playing with the devil.
Once you have opened the door to them, you will never be free.
The battle is coming.....it’s in the air.
I’m waiting for another tranny to go in and shoot up the place.
The FIB will get right on it, unless of course it’s the pipe bomber from January 6th.
Turning one’s back to the LGBT community sounds disturbingly like dropping the soap.
“one of several across Midwest”
Utah, Pennsylvania and North Carolina are in the Midwest?
So I lived in the Midwest! Well the people are nice there but I experienced four different hurricanes when I lived on the Outer Banks which must be somewhere in the Midwest I guess.
They’re actually trying to justify terrorism and grooming innocent children at all costs, while gas lighting decent people who have finally stood up against them. May God help us.
Redneck humor? False flag?
Obviously this is evidence of the violence exhibited by transphobic, white supremacist, Trump supporters. The media will have a field day out of this tomorrow.
I can hear it now.
Guest Media expert Maddow: “Tapper, I’m concerned. What about you? How concerned should we be in regards to these threats?”
Tapper: “Very concerned. As we all know MAGA supporters use these types of threats to install fear into the poor Pride supporters. With PRIDE month starting in just a few days, we should all be concerned. For we all remember the gun violence we witnessed in Tennessee just a few weeks ago due to the hate from the Christian right”.
“We will return in a moment with guest Liz Cheney to discuss how Target can protect it’s stores from these threats”.
[Commercial break]
Narrative, mantra, etc all set!
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