SFPD Investigating Bomb Threat Targeting Anti-Defamation League's SF Offices [Updated]

SFPD Investigating Bomb Threat Targeting Anti-Defamation League's SF Offices [Updated]Photo: Google Maps
Brittany Hopkins
Published on February 27, 2017

The San Francisco Police Department is urging the public to avoid the 700 block of Market Street, while the department investigates a bomb threat.

In a video Examiner reporter Jonah Owen Lamb‏ posted on Twitter at 5:47pm, Tenderloin Station Captain Teresa Ewins confirms that the Central Pacific chapter of the Anti-Defamation League received a bomb threat by phone. The organization's building, 720 Market St. (between Grant and Kearny/Third), has been evacuated. The 700 block of Market Street has also been shut down.

"At this point, we are just waiting for a dog to go through the building to make sure that it’s safe and there’s nothing inside," Captain Ewins said in the video.

According to Al Jazeera, the Anti-Defamation League is one of 20 different Jewish community centers and schools around the United States that received bomb threats today. However, no bombs were found following previous threats.

Market Street transit lines are being re-routed while the investigation continues.

We'll update this story as more details are released.

Update, 6:30pm: The ADL has announced on Twitter that "it was found to be just a threat."