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‘Credible Terror Threat’ to LAUSD Prompts School Closures

"All Los Angeles Unified School District schools were closed Tuesday after LAUSD received a “credible terror threat,” according to school district officials and police.

More details about the threat were expected to be provided during a Tuesday morning news conference.

Officer Kim of the Los Angeles Police Department told KTLA that the threat prompted the decision from LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines to close all schools until further notice.

The district serves about 700,000 students."
ktla.com/2015/12/15/lausd-has-received-credible-terror-threat-district-official-says/

I'm going to be watching this closely today.

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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    Yup, all over the news here. Right now, in fact.

    What the FUCK.

    Although I've been thinking LA could have some shit coming our way.

    Matter of time, unfortunately.
  • OMGkatwomanOMGkatwoman Posts: 3,230
    The timing of this is so close to the Sandy Hook tragedy.... We cannot allow our children to become targets of some deranged individual or groups twisted and evil agenda interfere with their safety any longer...
  • OMGkatwomanOMGkatwoman Posts: 3,230
    CNN reporting the FBI called school officials regarding this
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,038
    They're being extremely vague about the nature of the threat. Wonder if this is some hacker kid messing with people or a real threat?
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  • OMGkatwomanOMGkatwoman Posts: 3,230
    Threat reportedly came in from overseas, Frankfurt,Germany email sent directly to school official
  • OMGkatwomanOMGkatwoman Posts: 3,230
    Good point going on right now, what is the difference between the same threat sent to New York City schools and L.A., New York says it's not credible due to spelling? Former Homeland Security agent thinks New York officials are making a mistake... God I hope not.....
  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Posts: 49,954
    edited December 2015
    I would think that if someone really wanted to commit a terror attack they'd just go ahead and do it. Of course I know absolutely nothing right now... but my first thought was that it sounded like someone called in some kind of cryptic bomb threat in any random school in the city.... Could be serious. Could be some kind of crazy kind of ransom request like that fucker from the Speed movies. Could be a hoax - just some stupid asshole in a basement. In any case, I would think that this isn't the kind of threat that the likes of ISIS or someone like that would pull. They would just attack and school without sending a warning email, wouldn't they? Or maybe this is just a change of tactics. Are people really thinking it might be some kind of Islamic thing just because of rumours of the email coming from Germany or what?
    I wonder how long it takes to search all the schools in LA?
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  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,038
    Why do you suppose these attacks to our well being keep occurring?
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  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Posts: 49,954
    brianlux said:

    Why do you suppose these attacks to our well being keep occurring?

    Because it's a mad mad mad mad world Brian. ;)
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  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    brianlux said:

    Why do you suppose these attacks to our well being keep occurring?

    Nutbars.

    Psychotic nutbars to be precise.
    "My brain's a good brain!"
  • brianluxbrianlux Posts: 42,038
    That's it? It's just wackadoss out there going berserk?
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  • OMGkatwomanOMGkatwoman Posts: 3,230
    edited December 2015
    PJ_Soul said:

    I would think that if someone really wanted to commit a terror attack they'd just go ahead and do it. Of course I know absolutely nothing right now... but my first thought was that it sounded like someone called in some kind of cryptic bomb threat in any random school in the city.... Could be serious. Could be some kind of crazy kind of ransom request like that fucker from the Speed movies. Could be a hoax - just some stupid asshole in a basement. In any case, I would think that this isn't the kind of threat that the likes of ISIS or someone like that would pull. They would just attack and school without sending a warning email, wouldn't they? Or maybe this is just a change of tactics. Are people really thinking it might be some kind of Islamic thing just because of rumours of the email coming from Germany or what?
    I wonder how long it takes to search all the schools in LA?

    I agree, they most likely wouldn't send a warning, but did this warning come from someone who may have info and is trying to prevent a tragedy of epic proportions? New York officials say it's a hoax because they didn't capitalize the word Allah? I would think it would take days to search all the schools due to limited equipment and resources.
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    The Islamic factor didn't even enter my mind, FYI.

    Sick fucks run the gamut of everything.

    Yeah, I do hope it's some little shit that caused a lot of shit, and nothing more.
  • Thirty Bills UnpaidThirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    brianlux said:

    That's it? It's just wackadoss out there going berserk?

    At some point in time... I think we have to consider the fact that a PhD thesis paper is not necessary to explain some behaviours.

    In it's most simple form... it boils down to 'us and them'.
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  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    Someone didn't study for finals.
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  • PJfanwillneverleave1PJfanwillneverleave1 Posts: 12,885
    edited December 2015
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  • ldent42ldent42 Posts: 7,859
    Sorry to be all late to the party but I was bugging out so hard over this at one point yesterday it didn't even occur to me to see if there was a thread in AMT about it.
    So here's a very good update on the situation: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lausd-tactics-20151216-story.html

    Also please note that my city is run by assholes from Bahstan (literally the Mayor AND the Police Chief who are the two people that are pretty much in charge over this) so them talking shit about the way LA handled it is not reflective of the views of the people of the City of New York.

    The short version is these e-mails went out to the school board president in LA and some "high ranking official" in NYC the same time, but because of the time zones the guy in LA got to see his before bedtime, the guy in NYC didn't see his till morning (good thing he wakes up early and checks his messages right away) So LA got their investigation going with the FBI and the LAPD Police Chief and then NYC woke up and was like "yo, over here!" and I guess the sort of compared notes. LA decided the email was plausible enough to shut down the schools and notified parents starting during 6am. 6am in LA is 9am in NYC. No idea how it works in LA but schools in NYC open as early as 7am (possibly even earlier in some cases) for Breakfast and classes start around 8 for the little kids and if memory serves my HS had classes starting at 7:05. So if NYC was going to do the same and close the schools out of an abundance of caution, they would have had to have started the process at 6am EST which is just about the same time that the LAPD Police Chief actually found out about their threat, and only an hour-ish after our guy saw his email. Basically, even if NYC wanted to close schools for this, they didn't have time to do so. NYC is pretty notorious for not closing schools for shit though. The other thing to consider is NYC public school system is literally twice the size of LA's. So it's logistically a bigger deal for us. There's also a thing here where the kids have to be in school for x number of days a year, I dunno if that's a state thing or a federal thing or a UFT thing, but there is a rule so much so that in the rare event they actually close for too many days, they end up adding on extra days to the end of the school year. So if we have some freak blizzard and have to close schools for five days, but that puts us 3 days short of the required number of class days, the school year is extended by three days at the end of the year. While this year the weather seems to think NYC is LA, normally they have to be mindful of this sort of thing when making the decision to close schools. I don't know if LA has this same rule, but I am fairly sure they don't get blizzards anyway so it matters less for them.

    I got pretty significantly freaked out by this though because I live next door to a school. My windows face the schoolyard. So if that shit gets blown up there's a pretty good chance at least half of my apartment is going with it. And the fact that Bratton & DiBlasio were being dicks about it was just rising my anxiety levels. Cuz you know, school day is only half over, you know what's a great fuckin' idea? get on TV and antagonize the motherfucker who sent the email threat cuz of his poor grammar. Nice one, Mr. "I got bodyguards and a motorcade screw you plebs and your pleb kids". Takes some real fuckin' balls to gamble with the lives of children like that. And at the time they didn't say that it was high schools that were most likely targets they just said "schools". So I'm sitting in my PUBLIC school college classroom last night for finals and the stupid fuckin overhead projector starts CLICKING and I damn near shit my pants :lol: While I am very glad nothing happened yesterday, I do not applaud the Mayor and the Police Chief of The City of New York for their reaction to the threat. I do not believe they'd have gone public with it had LA not already done but I ain't even mad at them for that. While they may have been correct in their assessment of the credibility of that threat, they were being dicks about it, which could have put lives in danger. I get that they receive threats alllllllll the fuckin' time but they should have behaved with more professionalism.

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