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Bower Manhattan postponed a hearing with former President Trump on Tuesday morning as the city and much of the country remained tense over the prospect

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of protests or unrest over his possible indictment.

It was unclear whether the threat was about Trump or his legal troubles, but the delay affected a hearing Tuesday morning on a lawsuit filed by New York Atty. gene

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Letitia James to Trump and several of his relatives, accusing them of fraudulently inflating Trump’s assets.

The threat was made in a 911 call citing several locations

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in Manhattan, a court spokesman told the Los Angeles Times. Several buildings, including the New York County Courthouse and the District Attorney’s office, were searched by the New York Police Department.

“Operations were minimally affected for less than 30 minutes,” said Lucian Chalfen, spokesman for the courthouse.

An NYPD spokesperson said the department did not immediately have information available about the threat.

The unwarranted threat comes as police in major cities across the country, including New York and Los Angeles, have begun taking steps in response to the possibility of protests should the former president be indicted this week. A fence has been erected outside the Manhattan courthouse, where a grand jury has been convened over allegations that porn star Stormy Daniels was paid to keep quiet about an affair with Trump.

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Capitol on January 6, 2021, as he continued his false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to current President Joe Biden.

According to the Justice Department, more than 1,000 people were arrested in the January 6 disturbances, including 326 charged with assaulting, resisting or obstructing officers. More than 100 have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges and 385 have pleaded guilty to misdemeanors.

But that kind of audience has yet to be seen in response to Trump’s latest appeal to supporters.

At one protest on Monday news reporters vastly outnumbered Trump supporters.

On Tuesday, reporters noticed just one handful of protesters and supporters of the former president lined up outside Trump Tower in New York. Metal barriers erected outside the building to control the crowd were instead used by supporters to hang some of their banners.

Crowds were also sparse in West Los Angeles. At 4 p.m. Tuesday, outside the federal building near Wilshire Boulevard, passing drivers may have missed the protest taking place there.

Unfazed by the lateral raindrops and people rushing past to catch the bus nearby, two Trump supporters shouted into passing cars with megaphones about the alleged criminal ties of the Biden family, telling prosecutors to “leave our president alone referring to Trump.

“The mainstream media is just part of your government,” one protester shouted through a megaphone.

Still, supporters like former Trump adviser Roger Stone called for “peaceful” and “legal” protests across the country.

Other Republican leaders urged supporters not to protest, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who on Sunday criticized Trump’s criminal investigation as politically motivated but said his supporters should not demonstrate about it.