However, the origin of the document is believed to be located much closer to the U.S.
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Los Angeles officials announced Tuesday evening that schools would reopen Wednesday, with all city police officers ordered to be in uniform and extra patrol at schools. Beck defended that decision.
“We have suffered too many school shootings in America to ignore these kinds of threats”, Chief Charlie Beck said at a news conference.
“Preliminary assessment is it was a hoax to disrupt school districts in large cities”, Schiff said on Twitter.
Ronna Bronstein, who has two sons in the fifth and eighth grades, said she was trying to find out more about the threat while shielding her younger child from the news.
Los Angeles law enforcement and city leaders are defending the decision to shut down the city’s school system due to an emailed threat.
Schools Superintendent Ramon Cortines said crisis counselors would be available for students and school employees who might need “additional support”.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools also received a threat late Wednesday, according to a statement on the district’s website. Officials also said they distributed materials to teachers meant to help them discuss the disruption with students.
“One passage in the email sent to New York City’s School Superintendent had read: “(Students) at every school in the district will be massacred, mercilessly.
Officials said the threat came in electronic form and was made to numerous but unspecified campuses.
After more than 1,500 school district sites had been inspected by nightfall, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti conceded that the message appeared to have been a hoax. He says after Paris and San Bernardino, law enforcement has warned about the possibility of schools becoming terrorist targets. The official was not authorized to disclose details of an ongoing investigation and provided it only on condition of anonymity. Additionally, we had no reports from any of our districts of any threats made directly to our schools.
The message threatened that “138 comrades” would join the writer, who claimed to be a bullied high school student. “I really don’t doubt that they did the right thing”, Bass said.
Superintendent Cortines’ comments follow criticism from New York Police Department Commissioner Bill Bratton that the Lausd overreacted to the threat. “Just because parts of the email are false doesn’t mean it’s all false”, said Representative Sherman. “We’re used to it, sad to say, the way the world is”.
In New York City, officials said they had received a similar threat to schools, but opted to keep schools open after concluding it was a hoax.
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes). Los Angeles School Police officer Alex Camarillo, left, welcomes area students back to school at the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center in Los Angeles Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015.
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Bratton said the person who wrote the note claimed to be a jihadist but made errors that made it clear the person was a prankster. Parents pick up their children from school early, on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, in Los Angeles.
