By David M. Greenwald
Executive Editor
Davis, CA – At around 2:15 am on Wednesday, the Vanguard received a threat to three DJUSD schools, the DJUSD Office and two private individuals’ homes. Police were alerted and investigators are looking into the matter.
The schools were: Holmes Junior High, Cesar Chavez Elementary School, Davis High and the DJUSD Offices on Holmes Campus, plus two individuals ostensibly listing their private residences.
This marks the latest in a series of threats following a meeting at the library that was shut down by library staff in August.
“Our youth are our future, what you teach isn’t just garbage but its (sic) poison and we’re not going to stand idly by as you brainwash the next generation with your sick perverted fantasy and create further division in our country,” the message read in part before calling the intended recipients “(expletive deleted) cancers” and saying, “we’re goign (sic) to stop this removing one tumor at a time.”
The recipients of the email were hidden and the Vanguard was bcc’d on the message.
(Update)
The Davis Police Department conducted searches of two DJUSD employee residences and several school sites, including Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High, Cesar Chavez Elementary School, Davis Senior High School, North Davis Elementary, Davis School-Independent Study, and the DJUSD District Offices.
The residences and campuses have been deemed clear and schools are open for classes.
The Yolo County Sheriff’s Office also searched the Davis Library and deemed it clear. Davis Police Officers will be conducting extra patrols around DJUSD campuses.
This is more intimidation and threats from members and supporters of the right wing authoritarian organization the Moms for Liberty. Let’s refresh people’s memories to the contents of their nationwide Republican banana republic playbook.
Obviously another round of condemnation by people on all sides is needed. For real leadership look no further than Coach Prime, formerly known as Deion Sanders, who spoke out strongly after a threat to a football player.
What kind of a coward threatens kids and schools? Deplorable isn’t it. And what kind of a person takes more than one second to condemn such a threat?
It’s quite possible the person who set the email is in a different time zone. The stuff posted by the local individual bad actor made it into the “bloodstream” of international right-wing news.
What makes this bomb threat atypical from most you hear about is the time of communication. The Vanguard’s time of notification was 2:15 AM. A would-be bomber with a sleep-disorder?
I suppose the culprit(s) could set a computer timer for the time of transmission, a time when most of the public targets are empty and most of the recipients of the message are asleep. The message was a warning, obviously, but why send a time-critical email to someone who is not at their phone or computer?
The homes of two school employees being targeted is also peculiar. Not to belabor the obvious, but this is meant to be especially intimidating. Public employees–in leadership roles especially–are conditioned to public venom while working. But threats extended to home and family, that’s beyond the pale.
Moms For Liberty is a vile hate group.
SPLC was right in labeling them dangerous violent extremists.
They have no place in our community, or any other.