Sen. Jeremy Allen Moss speaks at a bill signing ceremony for Senate Bill 4, which expands the Elliott Larsen Civil Rights Act to include protections for the LGBTQ+ community, on March 16, 2023. (Andrew Roth/Michigan Advance)
Democratic State Sen. Jeremy Moss said Friday that he received a “detailed and specific message” threatening him with a bomb at his home in Southfield.
The incident occurred Thursday, Moss said in a statement.
“This current political environment is untenable,” Moss said. “In the past few days, I’ve experienced a noticeable influx of bigoted, aggressive messages directed at my office and social media inboxes.”
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Local and state police arrived swiftly alongside a bomb sniffing dog to ensure there was no immediate danger, Moss said.
Michigan Department of State Police Lieutenant Kim Vetter said the department had no additional information on the incident.
It was another case of a Michigan Democratic official reporting a bomb threat at their residence – Michigan Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II said he was also subjected to a bomb threat late Thursday evening.
The separate bomb scares happened amid a national trend of threats against lawmakers and historically Black college and university campuses following the death of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
Similar threats have been recorded across the nation including threats to New Mexico’s Democratic House and Senate leaders. Rhode Island State Police also reported investigating threats to several top Democrats, deeming the emailed bomb threats a hoax.
Moss on Friday called on citizens to reject this type of behavior as the norm in politics, especially following Kirk’s killing in Utah and the murder of Minnesota House Democratic-Farmer-Labor caucus leader Melissa Hortman and her husband, as well as the shooting of Democratic Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife.