In the Bay Area, San Francisco police chose to step up patrols.
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Cortines said the district police chief informed him about the threat shortly after 5 a.m. Toni Guinyard reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015.
L. Michelle, spokeswoman for the Issaquah School District, said administrators work with school resource officers and local law enforcement to assess threats.
On Monday afternoon, San Bernardino Valley College announced that classes Tuesday would be canceled, citing a bomb threat.
It is a move district officials around the country have weighed heavily after school shootings and threats.
And remember that Cortines hardly had any time to make the decision.
“If this was not ISIS, not a terror organization, they’re nonetheless watching”, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Meet the Press Daily”. “If they come to the conclusion that they can literally mail it in, call it in and disrupt large cities, they’re going to take advantage of that”.
Stay-at-home mom Marisol Hadadi, whose 10-year-old son attends Marquez Elementary, said: “I disagree with closing the schools because we’re just showing these people that we’re scared of them”. “We could not say that earlier this morning”. Through the investigation the suspect will be found, and they’ll answer to it. But we can’t walk around scared all the time.
De Blasio called the threat “outlandish” and generic, saying it would have been a “huge disservice” to close the schools.
“There are requirements to have lockdown drills and do certain things as well, and schools utilize all of those to make sure that they’re ready and prepared if something were to happen”, he added.
LA police, school boards, and politicians even stuck by their decision after NY officials highlighted major flaws in the email – such as the misspelling of “Allah” with a lowercase “a”.
The threatening 360-word email sent to the New York City school superintendent warned that schools would be attacked with pressure cooker bombs, nerve agents and machine guns.
Congressman Brad Sherman and others cast doubt on the credibility of the LAUSD threat before it was revealed to be a hoax, and Bill Bratton, the NY police commissioner, criticized L.A. officials for “overreacting” to the email. Police have yet to determine its origin, but Beck said authorities believe it was “much closer than Germany”.
Board of Education President Steve Zimmer said the district was acting “out of an abundance of caution”. The threat was still being analyzed as of the news conference.
“Los Angeles doesn’t have that same kind of experience”, he said. Ramon Cortines, the school system’s superintendent, told news conference on Tuesday that the threat was against students at multiple schools. “The students at every school in the New York City school district will be massacred, mercilessly”.
“We are almost 100 percent certain that we can take the steps to restore those funds to the district”, he said.
The Los Angeles United School District is one of the biggest in the United States.
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Part of that involves working with local police who are the first ones called when a threat is made.
