by Anna North

July 5, 2017

 

Two nights before the inauguration, Katherine Gonzalez Morgan was watching TV with her nine-year-old son when police showed up at her door. They had received an email saying there was a bomb at her address, they said. She and her family would have to leave immediately.

Ms. Morgan lives with her husband, their son and her parents on a five-acre farm in an unincorporated area outside the town of Pace, in the Florida Panhandle. The police evacuated the Morgans and their nearest neighbors to a soccer complex nearby while they searched the farm. Ms. Morgan was worried that someone might have placed a bomb in the horse barn or one of the sheds on the property. Her son was terrified. She and her mother both have a form of muscular dystrophy, and both were still recovering from recent surgeries when they were forced to leave their home.

About two hours later, the Morgans were able to return; the officers had found no bomb at the farm. The Morgans were one of three families in Florida, in three different cities hundreds of miles apart, whose addresses had been mentioned in a bomb threat emailed to a detective. The only connection police could find among the three was that all had the surname Gonzalez, which is Ms. Morgan’s parents’ name and her maiden name.

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www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/opinion/gonzalez-hate-florida-threat.html