Streets Closed At Tulsa's Federal Courthouse For Suspicious Backpack

KOTV ^ | 9/24/2015 | Russell Hulstine

[william clark]

TULSA, Oklahoma -

Police closed streets around the federal courthouse in downtown Tulsa Thursday morning.

Tulsa Police told News On 6 crime reporter Lori Fullbright, three Middle Eastern men parked a car near the federal courthouse at 3rd and Denver and ran off.

Police said they found a backpack in the car and are treating it as a possible bomb.

Police say the backpack is in the backseat of a gold BMW.

The department's bomb squad is on scene and bomb techs are not examining the backpack.

Police tell Lori Fullbright the men who ran have been located and are being questioned.

Officers checking around the courthouse for any suspicious devices or packages.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

Problem is, you get a bunch of pranksters who leave a hundred empty backpacks in a hundred transportation hubs around the country, we then bring the WHOLE NATION TO A STANDSTILL while all the nervous nellies "evacuate" (in both senses of the word).

Sometimes you just gotta keep calm and carry on, as the old sign says.

[Red in Blue PA]

Happy Eid!

[WENDLE]

Let’s affect the lives of hundrends of people over a chese sandwich. Why doesn’t someone paid to do it walk up and look inside ? If it has a bunch of wires and crap then blow it up!!

[RginTN]

Islamophobia, clearly/s

[fishtank]

[MeshugeMikey]

a great Book which shouod be required reading for LEOS in 2015

[Brown Deer]

Was it full of pop tarts?

[Brown Deer]

Homeless guy drives a gold BMW?

[left that other site]

If I recall correctly, there were a bunch of young Iraqi Men in the area as well.

[Smokin' Joe]

That account is sanitized somewhat.

At the time, accounts were that he had turned away from the stadium gates because of the backpack checks going on.

Even though TATP (AKA: "Mother of Satan") is nasty stuff, it is likely that more people would have been killed in the ensuing panic than by direct effects of the explosion.

[lacrew]

A few weeks after the bombing, I found myself at the Topeka Federal Building, to watch our Polish chaplain become a US citizen.

At least two dozen Iraqis also became US citizens that day. I always thought that was weird...sure seemed like alot of Iraqis for Kansas.

[left that other site]

Saddam was doing a lot more than violating his “NO-FLY Zones.

[TXBlair]

Lol!!!

[WP Lonestar]

Bigoted Tulsa cops, it’s just a clock.....