The NYPD have confirmed that New York City School officials had received the same threat that prompted all LAUSD schools to cancel classes, but the decided that the threat was not credible.
The Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and De Blasio have said that other districts nationwide also received an electronic threat on Tuesday, but their investigators concluded that students were not in any imminent or real danger.
“We are very comfortable that this is not a credible threat,” Bratton said, adding they authorities were “concerned with people overreacting to it.”
Bratton said NYPD was investigating the threat with the FBI, a joint terrorism task force and Los Angeles police.
In Los Angeles, some students already had gone to school when the decision was made to close them. Authorities said officials at individual schools would stay with students until their parents could pick them up.
“We need the cooperation of all of Los Angeles today,” said school board president Steve Zimmer. “We need families and neighbors to work together with our schools and with our employees to make sure our kids are safe throughout the day.”
The Los Angeles Unified School District is the second largest in the nation and enrolls more than 640,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, according to its website. More than 900 schools and 187 public charter schools are in the district, covering 720 square miles.
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