Mannequin with Obama mask found hanging on bridge over I-70
Source: Kansas City Star
BY GLENN E. RICE
The Kansas City Star
Authorities shut a stretch of Interstate 70 between Grain Valley and Oak Grove for several minutes early Monday while the Jackson County Sheriffs office removed a fully-clothed mannequin wearing a mask of President Barack Obama left hanging from a bridge overpass.
The incident was reported about 5:30 a.m. at the bridge on Lefholz Road. While removing the item from the overpass, deputies noticed what they believed to be an explosive device attached to the mannequin.
The Independence police bomb unit was summoned, and all lanes of Interstate 70 were shut down as a precaution while deputies examined the item, said Sgt. Ronda Montgomery, spokeswoman for the sheriffs office.
No explosives were found. The sheriffs office is investigating who placed the mannequin on the bridge. It is not known how long it had been there.
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Drum
(9,101 posts)ellenrr
(3,864 posts)Leme
(1,092 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)..the Secret Service doesn't take things like this lightly.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)RW, racist acting out in this day and age. We want our country back! From that brown man in our white house. waaaa!!!!!!
Little Star
(17,055 posts)geretogo
(1,281 posts)propaganda .
Psephos
(8,032 posts)lark
(23,065 posts)How despicable, lynching a black man in effigy in this day and time - totally revolting and stupid as well
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)There's probably plenty of evidence all over that mannequin.
greymattermom
(5,751 posts)Mizzery. i.e Missouri.
sheshe2
(83,668 posts)I hope they find and jail the A**holes!
LuckyLib
(6,817 posts)Of course, they consider us the west coast liberal crazy people with no morals, so we're even!
Turbineguy
(37,295 posts)To be a psychopath shall not be infringed upon.
Skittles
(153,122 posts)that is deranged and unacceptable