Over 900 LA schools to reopen as email threat deemed “not credible”

And being only an hour away from San Bernardino, where fourteen people were killed in a terror attack two weeks ago – they were using extreme caution.

An emailed threat sent to LAUSD officials prompted the closure of every school in the district Tuesday. Mayor Bill de Blasio concluded the threat contained “nothing credible”. The Los Angeles Police Department and our sheriff’s department out here can supplement what they have.

Cortines said that he ordered plant managers to “walk the schools” and report “anything out of order” to police.

Bratton indicated that the type of threats in the email mirrored some recent episodes of the show.

The Burbank Unified School District, Hawthorne public schools and Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District remained open.

In New York, home of the country’s largest school district, authorities said the city had received an identical threat but said it appeared to be a hoax.

“We are in the process of validating and vetting to determine what if any validity it has”, said Jorge Villegas, an assistant chief for the Los Angeles police. But he said he was “nearly 100 percent certain we can take the steps to restore those funds to the district”.

In Los Angeles, city leaders rallied behind Cortines’ decision to call off school because of the threat.

But he added that people had to make quick decisions with incomplete information at a time of heightened security tensions and in a city just 60 miles (100 km) from San Bernardino attack.

The schools in Los Angeles are safe and will reopen Wednesday, Los Angeles Unified School District School Board President Steve Zimmer told reporters. It claimed the writer and “138 comrades” would carry out the attack. “And there is nothing you can do to stop it”. The official was not authorized to disclose details of an ongoing investigation and provided it only on condition of anonymity.

Police investigate unspecified threat sent via electronic message, forcing the closure of more than 900 schools.

Cortines said his school district often receives threats. He also said it may have been easier to close down the schools and stop students from coming rather than evacuating schools with students and staff present.

A police officer puts up yellow tape to close the school outside of Edward Roybal High School in Los …

“We can not allow ourselves to raise levels of fear”, he said.

Mr Bratton said he thought Los Angeles officials overreacted, but Chief Beck defended the move.

The city schools commonly get threats, but Cortines called this one rare. “We have 6 districts to work through systematically through every one of those schools”. “Or, more likely, the kid who didn’t study for his final exam has won”, a reader identifying himself as Dan Frazier wrote on Tuesday in the comments section of The New York Times website. “To disrupt the daily schedules of half a million school children, their parents, day care, buses based on an anonymous email, without consultation, if in fact, consultation did not occur with law enforcement authorities, I think it was a significant over reaction”.