{"id":17861,"date":"2016-12-28T05:32:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T05:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=17861"},"modified":"2016-12-28T05:32:31","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T05:32:31","slug":"police-evacuate-lobby-trump-tower-new-york-stray-bag-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/police-evacuate-lobby-trump-tower-new-york-stray-bag-toys.html","title":{"rendered":"Police evacuate lobby of Trump Tower in New York over stray bag of toys"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Police evacuate lobby of Trump Tower in New York over stray bag of toys<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Police evacuate lobby of Trump Tower in New York over stray bag of toys:-<\/strong> Astray backpack prompted the partial evacuation of Trump Tower on Tuesday, though bomb squad technicians quickly determined the unattended bag contained children’s toys and was harmless.<\/span><\/p>\n

Video posted online showed people running through the Manhattan skyscraper’s public lobby as uniformed police officers waved them toward the exits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stephen Davis, the New York Police Department’s top spokesman, said the bomb squad gave the “all clear” around 5 p.m. after examining the backpack left near the entrance to Niketown, a store in the building.<\/span><\/p>\n

President-elect Donald Trump lives in the tower and has his offices there, though he was at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida when the bag was discovered.<\/span><\/p>\n

His newly appointed press secretary, Sean Spicer, Tweeted that officials were “back to work” following the “false alarm.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Shoppers and visitors to Trump’s namesake skyscraper described a chaotic scramble.<\/span><\/p>\n

“It was hysteria,” said Andy Martin, a 16-year-old from the New York City suburb of Huntington. “Police were shouting and telling people to leave.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump Tower, in addition to being the president-elect’s home and business headquarters, contains residences, restaurants, retail stores \u2014 and a lobby that by law is open to the public to visitors daily from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police receive about 42 reports every day of so-called suspicious packages, though that number can surge depending on current events. In the days after a pressure cooker bomb exploded earlier this year in New York City, police responded to more than 800 calls of “suspicious packages.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Maria Beckford, visiting New York from her native London, was in Niketown with her 13-year-old son looking to buy a pair of soccer cleats when she said they were told to urgently leave the store.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We actually had them in his hands but because of everything we just had to leave,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/ct-trump-tower-evacuation-20161227-story.html<\/span><\/div>\n

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