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A Hoax or a Threat? The Changing Nature of School Safety
School districts in Houston and Miami said on Wednesday they had received threats of violence similar to those made against schools in New York City and Los Angeles this week, but there were no plans to cancel class.
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“To disrupt the daily schedules of a half million school children, their parents, day care, buses, based on an anonymous email …”
The emailed threat to the Los Angeles school district that resulted in an unprecedented closure of all campuses included specific references to “bombs hidden in lockers”, “nerve gas agents” and “Kalashnikov rifles”.
New York City school officials said they got the same call, but say it was a hoax.
Breitbart News spoke with officials at several elementary schools, who said their school gates open at 7:30 a.m. and classes generally begin at 7:55 a.m.
The other email claimed to be from a student of the “New York City School District”.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Bratton seized on the New York City email’s apparent error in its failure to capitalize Allah.
Since the email did not specifically mention schools in San Diego, San Diego Unified School District directed FOX 5 to FBI investigators.
Wagner also expressed some bewilderment as to why the Los Angeles School District was the target of the threat “as opposed to a government or military installation”, suggesting that the reason is because “a school district is more of a soft target and is likely to have such a significant reaction.” .
School officials told parents to keep their kids home and retrieve those already at school, officials said. “But that’s a decision for each individual family to make on their own”.
Officials there eventually learned about the similar threat sent to Los Angeles, making both far less credible, Sherman said.
New York Police Commissioner William Bratton quipped that it looked like the sender of the threat had watched a lot of the Showtime terrorism drama “Homeland”.
Students cross a street on their way back to Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015.
He said the threat was sent to multiple HISD email accounts of administrators.
That followed a spate of mass shootings, capped by the December 2 spree by a heavily armed couple inspired by Islamic State who killed 14 at an office holiday party in San Bernardino, California.
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The letter prompted authorities to cancel classes on December 15 and investigate every school for potential danger. In the investigation of the San Bernardino attack authorities are still trying to determine if the shooters were also targeting schools.