NISD investigating threat on social media

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NISD investigating threat on social media

Northside ISD and the San Antonio Police Department are saying that recent threats made on social media against two NISD schools are bogus.

According to Barry Perez with NISD, SAPD has made contact with the individuals behind the posts and determined that they are not credible threats.

Here is one of the since-deleted post on Instagram threatening a shooting at Harlan High School on Tuesday.



A second one claiming a mass shooting would take place on Tuesday has also been deleted from instagram.

Multiple viewers reached out to us with concern over the post. If you see a threatening post or some other public safety concern, please report it to local authorities. San Antonio Police is available online or by phone at 210.207.7273.

Seems there's a spate of this going on around the country.

These kids are kind of stupid. Close to being copycats. One suggestion I read the other day is the media should black out any mention of the shooter and his identity. Don't make them something others copy.

It's good to see people reacting to the threats and online talking about it. From NextDoor, a neighborhood forum:

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Texas schools threaten students who protest gun violence with suspension

Students in Texas were told they would be suspended if they protest gun violence, on the same day a local 14-year-old was charged over a shooting threat.

In a letter to parents, Curtis Rhodes, the Needville Independent School District’s superintendent, said it would “not allow a student demonstration during school hours for any type of protest or awareness”.

He added: “Should students choose to do so, they will be suspended from school for 3 days and face all the consequences that come along with an out of school suspension.

“Life is all about choices and every choice has a consequence whether it be positive or negative. We will discipline no matter if it is one, fifty, or five hundred students involved. All will be suspended for 3 days and parent notes will not alleviate the discipline.”

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That article also reports on an idiot posting a threat: "On the same day a student at Needville Junior High School was arrested after allegedly posting an image of a shotgun on Snapchat, with a caption which read, “Don’t come to skoo tm (sic) @needvill”."