Vice President Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, was escorted from a Washington, D.C., classroom after a bomb threat rattled the school.
“We have to go,” a Secret Service agent told Emhoff Tuesday, midway through his Black History Month event at Dunbar High School.
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Teachers, students, Emhoff’s staff, and traveling reporters were evacuated after the school informed the Secret Service of the threat, according to a pool report.
District of Columbia Public Schools press secretary Enrique Gutierrez later told reporters “everyone is safe.”
“The building is clear,” he said. “I don’t have any specific details at this moment.”
White House press secretary Jen Psaki also could not immediately comment on the situation when asked about it during Tuesday’s briefing, but Emhoff’s communications director, Katie Rogers, confirmed he was safe.
“We are grateful to Secret Service and D.C. Police for their work,” she wrote.
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The scare comes after roughly 17 similar threats were made against historically black colleges and universities across the country last week. The FBI is considering the previous threats as hate crimes, with at least five people of interest already identified as part of the investigations.
