Los Angeles schools to reopen amid alert row with New York

“It was so outlandish”, he said. By 6.30am, the message was sent to the New York Police Department.

But in biting criticism, New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said the schools shutdown in Los Angeles was “totally, totally uncalled for”. “Basically, watching “Homeland” episodes that it mirrors”.

Parents who showed up to school early this morning were advised to pick up their children immediately at the Reunion Gate since the school day was canceled shortly after 7 a.m. All after-school activities, including sports, were canceled as well.

All LAUSD schools reopened after 900 schools were shut down Tuesday following a bomb threat.

“Every situation is going to be individual and certainly, we could rely on law enforcement’s advice in each of those situations”, said Trent Allen, spokesman for San Juan Unified. NY does not.

New York City officials said they got the same threat but quickly determined it was not credible.

Mayor Eric Garcetti noted how the San Bernardino attack had changed the dynamic in Southern California. The couple who carried out the attacks there weren’t on the radar of the nation’s national security apparatus.

The sheriff’s office said it closed all district schools as a precaution. “And there is nothing you can do to stop it”, the message said.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, added that the email appeared to have originated from overseas.

LAUSD serves more than 640,000 students throughout the Los Angeles area and in multiple nearby cities, according to its website. The district is home to about 200 charter schools that were also affected, along with dozens of educational centers.

In LA, the threat came in the form of an email to a school board member. The threat has since been deemed a hoax by LA, as well.

“Los Angeles doesn’t have that same kind of experience”, he said.

Mr Bratton, who once ran the LA Police Department, called the closure in Los Angeles a “significant over-reaction”.

Communication between kids and their friends is important, and parents should resist the urge to shield young people from scary news, said Dr. Karen Rogers, a child psychologist at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

The schools in Los Angeles are safe and will reopen Wednesday, Los Angeles Unified School District School Board President Steve Zimmer told reporters.

“He said the email included all Los Angeles Unified schools and mentioned explosive devices, ‘assault rifles and machine pistols'”. NY dismissed the warning as an amateurish hoax and held class as usual.

Officials in the city have been accused of over-reacting by deciding to close every school in the district on Tuesday, displacing 643,000 students and their parents in the process.

“I don’t think police are necessary”, she said.

“These threats are so easy to issue and in today’s day and age, they are understandably being taken very seriously”, Northeastern University professor Max Abrahms said.

Most high school students are taking semester final exams. “I, as the superintendent, am not going to take the chance with the life of a student”. Even though they realize most threats will be specious – playing off our renewed cultural concern over domestic terrorism. She’s concerned about her daughter feeling secure in class.

“I have been around long enough to know that usually what people think in the first few hours is not what plays out in later hours”, said the mayor, Garcetti. “We do not know whether this email is from a devout Muslim who supports jihadists or perhaps a non-Muslim with a different agenda”.