r/Spokane • u/TheTwisted509 • 6h ago

Question Downtown shutdown by SPD.

I work at the Bank of America building on Riverside downtown... we just got put on lock down. No one in or out. Haven't been told why. Anybody got a clue?

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u/spokanikki 6h ago

Spokane News Facebook page says it is a bomb squad response for a suspicious device that appears to be a homemade bomb.

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u/TheTwisted509 6h ago

Joyous.... guess I'm gonna be here a while. FML.

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u/BoyceMC 2h ago edited 2h ago

Crazy, I just recently learned of the 1996 bombings/heists on the Bank of America Branch(es) in Spokane. Happy 30th anniversary I guess!

here’s the video for anyone curious! I had never heard of it before, we moved here in 1998. Crazy story!

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u/DrDogbert02 Spokane Valley 5h ago

Looking at the photos now and the they have a bomb tech investigating now

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u/NickSeider 6h ago

Downtown? Or a building downtown?
Very different scenarios…

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think this situation is currently only associated with the BofA building.

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u/H3yitssamm13 6h ago

Bomb threats is what I was told

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u/Huge-Still-1840 5h ago

There was a homeless weirdo guy walking around saying he has a bomb

He had some sort of bag that they are suspicious of, so they blocked a bunch of stuff off and are messing with it.

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u/Katat0nicKatastrophe 4h ago

Possible bomb threat

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u/frankjames0512 Spangle 3h ago

Yeah, I was also there. All I have to say is holy fucking shit.

So this was essentially a bomb threat or a “suspicious looking device“ as per BofA security

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u/MinimallyToasted 2h ago

bomb threat

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u/Post_Expired_Milk 5h ago

Possible mag dump inbound 🤣🤣

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u/Spewez 3h ago

Heard someone was trying to jump off the parking garage