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posted by takyon on Tuesday December 15 2015, @08:10PM   Printer-friendly

On Tuesday morning, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, a governmental agency which operates hundreds of schools in Los Angeles and nearby areas, sent all its students home. The agency did not make its buses available, but instead asked parents to pick up their children from outside the schools. Superintendent Ramon Cortines ordered all the schools in the district closed because of a threatening message regarding "many schools" which was received by a member of the school board. Cortines called the closure a "precaution based on what has happened recently." Police and the district's "plant managers" are searching the campuses.

Sources:

From Reuters:

The unprecedented move left some 643,000 students of the Los Angeles Unified School District and their families scrambling to make alternate arrangements and drew criticism as officials in New York said they received the same threat and deemed it not to be credible.

A law enforcement source told Reuters that Los Angeles authorities ordered the closure to allow a full search of about 900 public school facilities without consulting with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which takes the lead on any potential terrorism investigation.


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @11:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @11:10PM (#276870)

    Perhaps you shouldn't have let so many immigrants in then.

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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Tuesday December 15 2015, @11:24PM

    by isostatic (365) on Tuesday December 15 2015, @11:24PM (#276878) Journal

    Perhaps you shouldn't have let so many immigrants in then.

    Quite, down with this sort of thing:

    Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

  • (Score: 2) by Absolutely.Geek on Tuesday December 15 2015, @11:29PM

    by Absolutely.Geek (5328) on Tuesday December 15 2015, @11:29PM (#276882)

    Confused! Can't tell if serious or troll....Trump is to blame.

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    Don't trust the police or the government - Shihad: My mind's sedate.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @01:12AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 16 2015, @01:12AM (#276920)
    I'm certain the Indians, er, Native Americans, would agree with you wholeheartedly.