Crime & Safety
Bomb Threat: Anti-Defamation League Building In Buckhead Evacuated
Breaking: ADL says four offices -- Atlanta, Boston, Washington, D.C. and New York -- received threats.
BUCKHEAD, GA -- Law enforcement officers are investigating a bomb threat Tuesday morning in Buckhead, Patch has learned.
The threat has led to the evacuation of a high-rise building located at 3490 Piedmont Road, home of the Atlanta office of the Anti Defamation League.
Read more: Another round of threats target Jewish community centers
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The Anti Defamation League posted on Twitter that the organization received multiple bomb threats at its offices.
"Four ADL Offices in Atlanta, Boston, New York and Washington, D.C. received telephoned bomb threats today," the group's CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, said in a statement. "This is not 'normal'. We will not be deterred, or intimidated. These threats were in addition to threats to at least four JCCs and one day school in Oregon, Wisconsin, New York, Florida and Maryland."
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Bomb threats called in to 4 more ADL offices. But we are not intimidated. This only hardens our resolve to fight ag #antisemitism. #onward pic.twitter.com/iEkTpWg8oM
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) March 7, 2017
The ADL said the organization has been targeted 121 times since early January. "It is time for action, and we call on the Administration and Congress to take concrete steps to catch those threatening the Jewish community."
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