It’s not clear from the article whether her party dined inside or outdoors.
A Department of Homeland Security officer with a bomb sniffing dog walked the whole street before she went inside.
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apparently, she went inside. Preceded by armed security and a bomb sniffing dog...
In the 30 years that I lived there, just a block away,I never saw anyone eat outside.I looked over there everytime getting on and off the cable car and rarely saw activities outside the building.