All LA public schools closed over unspecified threat: Police "need the co-operation of the whole of Los Angeles" https://t.co/kQicT56PR3
— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 15, 2015
Generally, most of these things turn out to be nothing, especially if it’s a call-in, as it appears to be, a call of a bomb threat to a board member. However, as we saw last week, there were two bomb threats that actually turned out to be real, one in a Vicksburg middle school and another in Tacoma, near an elementary school, where actual bombs were found.
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It seems to me they must have gotten something a little more in this one.
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Via Boston Globe:
A law enforcement official said the threat was emailed to a school board member and appeared to come from overseas. The New York Times said that it was a credible bomb threat.
‘‘It was not to one school, two schools or three schools. It was many schools, not specifically identified. But there were many schools. That’s the reason I took the action that I did … It was to students at schools.”
He says the schools commonly get threats, but called this one rare.
Cortines said the district police chief informed him about the threat shortly after 5 a.m.
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Thanks, Angela Merkel! Of course, that’s assuming it’s not a redirected IP address, which it could well be.
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Via LA Times:
U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Los Angeles), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “The author claims to be an extremist Muslim who has teamed up with local jihadists.
“We do not know whether these claims are true or a lie. We do not know whether this email is from a devout Muslim who supports jihadists or perhaps a non-Muslim with a different agenda.”
Sherman, former chairman of the House subcommittee on terrorism, said the email makes relatively specific and wide-ranging threats to Los Angeles schools.