Posted on 06/01/2017 7:01:12 PM PDT by jonascord
Evergreen State College in Olympia will remain closed Friday after a "direct threat" was made to the campus.
The Olympia campus was closed suddenly Thursday out of an abundance of caution, spokesman Zach Powers said.
An unknown person made a threat of "campus violence" to Thurston County officials, he said. The college's president made the decision to close campus.
The county released a copy of the phone call. A male caller told a dispatcher: "I'm on my way to Evergreen University now with a .44 Magnum. I'm going to execute as many people on that campus as I can get a hold of. You have that? What's going on here? You communist, scumbag town? I'm going to murder as many people on that campus as I can. Just keep your eyes open you scumbag."
The college asked everyone to leave campus or return to their residence halls and await further instructions. The dorms were not on lockdown, according to a spokesperson at the college.
Olympia Police Department and the Thurston County Sheriff's Office were patrolling the campus and monitoring entrances when everyone was leaving.
A spokesperson said there was no known connection to last week's race-based protests. Demonstrations held last Tuesday and Wednesday involved around 200 students.
Again, my sympathies.
A degree from that place is only useful as a beer coaster.
I can’t recall the text of such threats being released from phone calls immediately after they are made.
They typically just call it a “threat” or a “situation”.
Charles Bishop/Bishra’s pro-Bin Laden suicide note was suppressed for months after he stole and crashed a plane into a bank because he’d made a threat against the Superbowl in it.
Well NBC got a care package loveletter from some anti-Christian Asian shortly before he rampaged on a campus.
No prerequisites? Their math classes must not extend much beyond the multiplication tables
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