Bomb Threat Evacuates Kennedy Center
Around 10:45am the Kennedy Center notified the Metropolitan Police that they had received a bomb threat targeting the Shen Yun performances scheduled to start that day. The Metropolitan Police Department’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Unit was dispatched and an investigation was launched by U.S. Park Police. The entire complex, with hundreds of people and at least six different performing arts companies, were evacuated and spent most of three hours outside in the cold waiting for a sweep of the buildings to be complete. No threat was found, everyone was allowed back in and Shen Yun’s Kennedy Center opening night took place as scheduled.
The evacuation quickly hit the news cycle, with over 40 news outlets reporting on the bomb threat. What was missing in all of their coverage, though, was that this is part of a pattern and that dozens of identical prank bomb threats have been received over the course of Shen Yun’s tour so far, and that it is part of a much larger pattern of the CCP’s efforts to sabotage Shen Yun – documented on this site for 18 years.
In this case alone, simultaneous emailed threats were also received in Milwaukee and at Shen Yun’s headquarters in New York.