Target Faces Wave Of Bomb Threats Nationwide Over LGBTQ+ Pride Collection
Several Target locations across the country experienced evacuations on Friday due to bomb threats as controversy continues to grow over the company’s LGBTQ+ merchandise.
An email sent to CBS News affiliate WOIO in Cleveland, Ohio, at 12:26 p.m. on Friday alerted authorities about bombs allegedly placed in five Target stores near the city.
The email, which criticized Target for catering to homophobic individuals, expressed a refusal to tolerate such behavior. “Target is full of…cowards who turned their back on the LGBT community and decided to cater to the homophobic right wing redneck bigots who protested and vandalized their store,” read the email. “We won’t stand idly by as the far right continues to hunt us down.” According to a release from the Jackson Township Police Department, calls were made to police dispatch around 12:40 p.m.
from WOIO and another news affiliate, WEWS, regarding a potential bomb threat at a Target store in their county. Law enforcement officials, accompanied by a bomb-sniffing dog, conducted a thorough search of the store in Jackson Township but found no explosives.
