No one was hurt, and the Salt Lake City bookstore was later given an “all-clear” by police. But the event was ultimately canceled and the store was closed for the day “for the safety of our booksellers and loyal readers.'
, is usually calm. Parents and children alike attend, and children always come with adults, Crosby added. Lipsyncki said it started as a summer reading event, during which she reads three stories.
“It’s just a fun celebration of of diversity,” Crosby said. The stories vary across genre and age-range and are typically from books that recently arrived at the store. But Sunday’s event seemed unusual before the threat, Crosby noted. There’s typically a cap of about 30 attendees for each event for safety reasons. For this event, “multiple blocks of tickets” were sold, he said, hitting capacity with only six ticket-buyers.
Crosby reached out to the ticket-buyers after noticing this, confirming that three of them were regulars, but the other three didn’t respond. “They had big blocks of tickets. It’s very odd. I went on social media and tried to Google everybody ... those big blocks of ticket people were pretty much invisible.”Mayor Erin Mendenhallon Sunday that the city plans to work with the bookshop to reschedule the event.
“I cannot say this strongly enough, EVERYONE belongs in Salt Lake City,” Mendenhall wrote in the post. “The actions today to cause fear atThis is not the first time an event Lipsyncki has been a part of has faced threats. In January, an all-ages drag show at TeaZaanti saw an
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