Spokesman Josh Earnest says he won’t “second-guess” the decisions by Los Angeles officials to close their schools and New York City officials to keep their students in class. NY officials dismissed the threat as a hoax.
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Certainly, across the country, individual schools are closed on a daily basis in response to threats received, even though the threat is more often than not the result of a a beleaguered student using the word “bomb” to garner attention. The district, the nation’s second biggest, serves an estimated 700,000 students. “But that’s a decision for each individual family to make on their own”. Though the threat was addressed to major schools in both areas, the respective officials had different ways of handling the situation. Yesterday, an email containing a terrorist threat prompted the Los Angeles school district to close all of its schools.
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The cost of the school shut down was a whopping $29 million. “Based on recent events, I took this precaution out of an abundance of caution and to ensure safety and security in our schools”.
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In LA, the school board member who received the threat immediately contacted school district police, Det.
Are terrorist threats issued over e-mail credible?
“While we continue to gather information about the threat made against the Los Angeles and NY school departments, the preliminary assessment is that it was a hoax or something created to disrupt school districts in large cities”, he said Tuesday.
“This morning at just after 5 I received a phone message from Chief Zimmerman, the school police, and he shared with me the threat that had been made to not one school, but many schools in this school district”, Superintendent Ramon Cortines said during a press conference.
At the end of the NY email, the sender also threatens nearby cities by name, exactly the way the sender threatens other nearby cities in the Los Angeles email.
But the emails contained importance differences, according to U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California, a former chairman of the House Subcommittee on Terrorism. The FBI confirmed the agency is providing resources for the investigation, which includes a districtwide search by law enforcement agents, a sweep that will likely take the rest of the day because of the district’s size, Cortines said.
Since the email did not specifically mention schools in San Diego, San Diego Unified School District directed FOX 5 to FBI investigators.
Los Angeles shut down all of its schools on Tuesday, ordering some 643,000 students to stay home after officials receiving a threatening email, only weeks after an Islamic State-inspired attack in San Bernardino.
New York Police Commissioner William Bratton agreed.
California has been stunned by the massacre in San Bernardino, located about an hour east of Los Angeles, carried out by US-born Syed Farook and his Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik. Lupe Vasquez had no patience for those on the East Coast who scoffed at the move.
“I don’t want this to be in the back of her head”, she said.
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Brooks has proposed legislation that would make a public death threat a medium-grade felony, with more severe consequences if anybody is hurt during an evacuation.
