Bowling Green Christmas Parade, Mistletoe Market canceled due to potential threats - WAVE 3

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Organizers person announced that the Bowling Green Christmas parade and SoKY Marketplace’s Mistletoe Market volition beryllium canceled owed to imaginable threats made toward civilian rights groups that had planned a protestation aboriginal today.

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Various civilian rights groups had planned a ‘Justice for Emmett Till’ protestation connected Saturday astatine noon astatine the Justice Center arsenic good arsenic astatine Carolyn Bryant Donham’s flat connected Shive Lane. Protest organizers told america they planned to beryllium equipped successful lawsuit they would request to support themselves.

Around 3 a.m., Bowling Green Police and the Warren County Sheriff’s Office posted a video that explained who they determined imaginable threats made towards the groups protesting.

“The circumstantial menace is threatening to sprout anyone who is protesting and anyone who is helping the protesters,” said Sheriff Brett Hightower. “We person not been capable to find the validity of this threat.”

Out of an abundance of precaution, organizers of the Jaycee Christmas Parade decided to cancel the Christmas parade downtown that was acceptable to statesman astir 9:30 a.m.

“The information of our participants and spectators is ALWAYS are main focus. We person been successful changeless connection with instrumentality enforcement and person felt, each week, that we could supply a safe, amusive event. With this latest information, we knew that postponing was our champion option. We volition beryllium working, today, to travel up with different day for the parade,” the organizer posted connected Facebook.

The FBI and Homeland Security are helping section and authorities authorities investigate.

One of the protestation organizers sent WBKO News astatine connection regarding the menace saying, “Shooters rarely, if ever notify their shooting victims! *Note: Dozens had to get threatened, injured and died during the locomotion crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. #BloodySunday Carry On!!”

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