Long Island Police Rebut Rumors Of Explosives At Trump Rally [Video]

Law enforcement officials on Long Island worked quickly yesterday to publicly knock down false social media reports that explosives had been found in a car near Trump’s planned rally in New York. Via PBS.org:

The false reports of an explosive began circulating hours before the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign event at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, just days after he was apparently the target of a second possible assassination attempt.

Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder said police questioned and detained a person who “may have been training a bomb detection dog,” near the site of the rally and “falsely reported explosives being found.”

Lt. Scott Skrynecki, a spokesperson for the county police, said in follow-up messages that the person, who police have not yet identified, was a civilian and not a member of a law enforcement agency.

I can’t tell if it’s paranoia, or people doing some weird kind of P.R. for …