All Los Angeles public schools closed due to bomb threat to 'many' schools

They got us running like rabbits!

This could be a prank. If not it's almost a certainty Muslims are involved.

 A few more incidents like this and people are not going to be so "outraged" and "disturbed" over Trump banning Muslims. 

Thank God we only have a small handful of Muslims to worry about.

Update: It's a hoax. 

But don't think this wasn't a lesson learned by terrorists.

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All Los Angeles Unified School District schools have been ordered closed Tuesday due to an unspecified "credible threat" of violence to students at numerous schools in the sprawling district, and a schools official confirmed that it was a bomb threat to the school district.

Los Angeles Unified is the nation's second-largest school district, with more than 900 campuses and more than 640,000 students. Ramon Cortines, the school system's superintendent, said the threat was against students at multiple schools. LAUSD spokeswoman Monica Carazo confirmed that it was a bomb threat.

"It was not to one school, two schools or three schools, it was many schools, not specifically identified, but there were many schools," Cortines said. "That's the reason that I took the action that I did."

Teachers and support personnel also have been ordered to stay away from schools on Tuesday. Cortines said he intends to have every one of the district's schools searched. He said that while it is not unusual for schools to receive threats, this one was "rare" and comes at a time of heightened concern about safety.

Los Angeles is an hour's drive from San Bernardino, where less than two weeks ago, 14 people were killed by two alleged terrorists. A community college in San Bernardino was also closed on Tuesday due to a bomb threat received on Monday night.

"I as superintendent am not going to take a chance with the life of a student," Cortines said.

Officials offered few details about the nature of the threat, calling it only an "electronic threat" that came in the form of a "message." Cortines said the school district plans to release more information later Tuesday and declined to comment on whether schools would reopen on Wednesday.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said that the FBI's Los Angeles office and the Los Angeles Police Department are assisting with the threat investigation. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department also is assisting with the search because some of the schools are outside the city limits, said deputy Jeff Gordon. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also are involved in the investigation.

A law enforcement official in Los Angeles said that all of the Los Angeles Unified School District schools were closed after a "credible threat" of violence was received. The threat involved backpacks and packages at the schools, the official said.

Though schools were not yet open for the day when they were ordered closed, some students had already been dropped off, officials said. LAUSD Board of Education President Steve Zimmer asked parents to pick up their children as soon as possible.

"I want to be very clear we need the cooperation of the whole of Los Angeles today," Zimmer said. "We need families and neighbors to work together with our schools and with our employees to make sure that our kids are safe throughout the day. We need employers to show the flexibility that a situation like this demands."

All Los Angeles public schools closed due to bomb threat to 'many' schools