Faith & Freedom Conference Disrupted by Bomb Threat

The Faith & Freedom Conference in Washington, D.C. today was interrupted by reports of multiple bomb threats being called in.

Today multiple Republican presidential candidates, including Ted Cruz and Rick Santorum, spoke at the conference. Right after Santorum spoke, Faith & Freedom Coalition head Ralph Reed took the stage and said they need to evacuate the room because of threats and so the police can do a sweep.

Reporters there tweeted out what information they gleaned about the threats:

Threat called into Faith and Freedom Road to Majority conference, ballroom evacuated to other room. pic.twitter.com/i3skLGUiPf

— Lauren (@LaurenLeatherby) June 19, 2015

Faith & Freedom conference evacuating due to bomb threat pic.twitter.com/hwkjLukNKC

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) June 19, 2015

DC cop tells me there were "several phoned in threats from several different people" #FFC

— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) June 19, 2015

Faith and Freedom event staff says threat is confined to ballroom and is not impacting rest of hotel

— Jordan J Frasier (@jordanjfrasier) June 19, 2015

Re Faith and Freedom threat, DC police officer says threat is "very specific"

— Jordan J Frasier (@jordanjfrasier) June 19, 2015

At Faith and Freedom event, as police sweep of main ballroom continues, hotel staff rope off stairs pic.twitter.com/6eooMAPhzH

— Jordan J Frasier (@jordanjfrasier) June 19, 2015

The evacuation just happened to occur right before George Pataki was scheduled to speak. He eventually spoke in a smaller room, but tweeted this out in the immediate aftermath of the evacuation:

Bomb threat won't deter our commitment to taking freedom #RTM2915 Faith and Freedom Conference pic.twitter.com/OSLmGN2nyf

— George E. Pataki (@GovernorPataki) June 19, 2015

C-SPAN was rolling when Reed told people to evacuate and they cleared out the room. You can watch the video here, via C-SPAN 2:

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