NYPD commissioner slams LA school closure as ‘overreaction’

More than 1,000 schools in the Los Angeles area have been closed after the school district received a bomb threat via email, but police in New York City are calling the decision an “overreaction” A New York City school superintendent reported receiving a threatening email that was identical to the one in Los Angeles, but Mayor Bill de Blasio said the email was “so outrageous” that authorities never considered closing schools. That same threat closed the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is the second-largest school district in the United States, with some 640,000 students across 900 schools and 187 public charter schools. Both threats did not reference any school in particular but mentioned packages and backpacks. Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Unified School District said the IP address on the emailed threat had been traced to the German city of Frankfurt.

James Valles reporting