The Los Angeles Unified School District took the unprecedented step Tuesday of closing all of its schools due to an emailed threat that was later deemed a hoax, less than two weeks after a shooting in nearby San Bernardino left 14 dead and a nation on edge.
The email sent to officials on Monday night said multiple, unspecified schools would be targeted in an attack with guns and explosives, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck said. Later on Tuesday, the House Intelligence Committee said that the threat was not credible.
New York officials received a similar threat on Monday and said it was a hoax.
The decision by Los Angeles authorities to close 900 schools and 187 public charter schools as a precaution was swiftly criticized.
New York Police Commissioner William Bratton appeared to disagree with the move, saying, “To disrupt the daily school schedules of half a million school children, their parents, daycare, buses, based on an anonymous email with no consultation -- if, in fact, consultation did not occur with law enforcement authorities -- I think it was a significant overreaction.”
The Los Angeles Unified School District took the unprecedented step Tuesday of closing all of its schools due to an emailed threat that was later deemed a hoax, less than two weeks after a shooting in nearby San Bernardino left 14 dead and a nation on edge.The email sent to officials on Monday night said multiple, unspecified schools would be targeted in an attack with guns and explosives, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck said. Later on Tuesday, the House Intelligence Committee said that the threat was not credible.New York officials received a similar threat on Monday and said it was a hoax.The decision by Los Angeles authorities to close 900 schools and 187 public charter schools as a precaution was swiftly criticized.New York Police Commissioner William Bratton appeared to disagree with the move, saying, “To disrupt the daily school schedules of half a million school children, their parents, daycare, buses, based on an anonymous email with no consultation -- if, in fact, consultation did not occur with law enforcement authorities -- I think it was a significant overreaction.”
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