Overview
- UMass Lowell police coordinated the same day with the FBI, Secret Service and Haverhill police, and authorities assessed no immediate threat.
- The Secret Service confirmed it is aware of the social-media post targeting the vice president.
- The account holder, identified by the university as an alumnus, resigned from a volunteer role at WUML.
- The user deleted the threat and other posts from the hanslopez.bsky.social account following outreach by officials.
- WUML is a student-run station funded by UMass Lowell, and the Bluesky comment was written in response to another user's claim about Vance's foreign-policy views.