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Bomb threats were used to incite fear and violence during the American Civil Rights Movement, during which leader of the movement Martin Luther King Jr. received multiple bomb threats during public addresses, [3] [4] [5] and schools forced to integrate faced strong opposition, resulting in 43 bomb threats against Central High School in Arkansas being broadcast on TV and the radio.
Bomb threat – Threat to detonate an explosive device; Civil disorder – Forms of unrest caused by a group of people; National emergency – Declaration by a government allowing assumption of extraordinary power; Gas leak – Unintended escape of gas from a pipeline or other containment
A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people. These threats are often designed to intimidate victims in order to manipulate their behaviour, in which case a death threat could be a form of coercion. For example, a death threat could be used to dissuade a public ...
Polling places in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin were targeted with Election Day bomb threats. ... poll workers were unable to print authorization to vote forms from about 6:40 a.m. to 8 ...
A terroristic threat is a threat to commit a crime of violence or a threat to cause bodily injury to another person and terrorization as the result of the proscribed conduct. [1] Several U.S. states have enacted statutes which impose criminal liability for "terroristic threatening" or "making a terroristic threat."
Standoff distance is used when a violent criminal is in a fortified position, when hostages are under armed threat from kidnappers, when a bomb is believed to have been placed, or when other unspecified dangers may be lurking. It is a measure of distance used by government, law enforcement, or military operatives handling the situation to ...
A suspected illegal immigrant was arrested in South Carolina after officials say he made a fake bomb threat during a traffic stop which ultimately led to a section of the I-85 being shut down for ...
A dirty bomb or radiological dispersal device is a radiological weapon that combines radioactive material with conventional explosives. The purpose of the weapon is to contaminate the area around the dispersal agent/conventional explosion with radioactive material, serving primarily as an area denial device against civilians.