Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist and State sen. Jeremy Moss, D-Southfield. Photos: Samuel Robinson
Law enforcement officials responded to bombs threats made against Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist and State sen. Jeremy Moss, D-Southfield last week.
The public was made aware of the threat against Gilchrist’s home on Thursday. The following morning, Moss said on social media that he had received a bomb threat Thursday night as well.
Gilchrist said he and his family very much appreciate how the Detroit Police Department, Wayne County Sheriff and Michigan State Police responded to clear the threat. He said the incident is being investigated by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies.
“I think about this as a husband and a father first and foremost. I’ve got kids in Detroit Public Schools. We had to talk them through it, because they have friends who their parents see what’s happening, and we got to make sure that all of us can navigate a crazy moment like this,” Gilchrist said on WKAR’s Off the Record. “This is ridiculous that this is part of the life of public service, that this is where our system has gotten so broken to where these kinds of threats have happened to people across Michigan, have happened to people across America. It’s unacceptable.”
Gilchrist said Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro reached out to him over the phone, given Shapiro had a similar threat made against his home last year.
“It’s hard to be grounded when that ground has been shaken,” Gilchrist said.
Moss also thanked law enforcement in his statement, saying local and state police arrived with a bomb-sniffing dog to ensure there was no immediate danger.
Moss, who is gay, is one of three Jewish state lawmakers in Michigan.
Moss said in a statement announcing he had been targeted that in the days leading up to receiving the threat, he had received “a noticeable influx of bigoted, aggressive messages directed at my office and social media inboxes.”
“I think that bad actors are exploiting this moment to instill fear in our political environment. I don’t think this is coincidence that it happened a day after the Charlie Kirk assassination,” Moss told Michigan Chronicle. “It’s a very sad state of our politics, for sure.”
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