All Los Angeles schools closed over threat

“It was so outlandish”, he said.

New York Police Commissioner William Bratton agreed.

The LA Unified School District serves 640,000 students in more than 1,000 schools and public schools.

U.S. Representative Karen Bass, who represents parts of Los Angeles, in an interview with MSNBC television praised local officials for acting quickly. “I think it’s irresponsible based on facts that have yet to be determined to criticize that decision at this point”, he said during a news conference. Southern California has been through a lot in recent weeks. “Should we risk putting our children through the same?” It claimed the writer and “138 comrades” would carry out the attack. New York’s schools remained open. “Maybe they can. It involves looking in classrooms, closets, lockers – if you can get bomb-sniffing dogs in there, doing that – vehicles and surrounding perimeter areas”, Levin said.

Hundreds of thousands of students were sent home as city authorities fended off criticism that they over-reacted to what federal officials later said was most likely a hoax. He said the “A” in Allah wasn’t capitalized, a mistake a real jihadist wouldn’t make, the Daily News reported.

“He shared with me that some of the details talked about backpacks, talked about other packages”, said Cortines, who would not elaborate. NY dismissed the warning as an amateurish hoax and held class as usual.

“I want them searched and a report made to me and the board of education that it is safe”, he said during a televised press conference.

Bratton called the closure in Los Angeles a “significant overreaction”.

Mr Pete Boogaard, a spokesman for the White House National Security Council, had no immediate comment on the Los Angeles threat.

“I think the circumstances in neighboring San Bernardino”, Cortines said, referring to the mass shooting that left 14 dead.

Lee Stein, parent of a fifth grader at Ivanhoe Elementary School, said he heard about the closure via a news alert to his phone, which he confirmed by calling the principal. The email was traced to an IP address in Frankfurt, Germany, but law enforcement said that the person who made the threats could have masked their location.

It was the first closure of the full district in at least a decade, officials said, and appeared to be unprecedented in scale. She’s concerned about her daughter feeling secure in class.

He said: “I’m not going to endanger the lives of students”. “Who knows what it does psychologically to kids?” In a statement, New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina said, “We are working closely with the NYPD and there is no reason for alarm”.