Someone threatened South Burlington students and school district staff in a video Friday that included the same "murder list" which prompted a lockdown and school evacuation Thursday.
Superintendent of Schools David Young — along with South Burlington Police Chief Trevor Whipple — confirmed at a 3 p.m. news conference that officials are aware of the video,which had been circulating on social media.
The video threatens specific school staff and students as retribution for the school board's decision to drop the Rebels team nickname. The name change has riled up the community. Critics say the name is racist while its defenders consider it a harmless tradition.
Young explained that the latest threat came in around 4 a.m. Friday and "was a video and essentially repeated a lot of the same information that was shared within the text that was sent previously. The police are continuing very, very aggressive investigation at this time.”
No one has been arrested in the case, and which prompted school lockdowns Wednesday and Thursday. School officials,concerned approximately safety, chose to cancel school districtwide on Friday, and the eve of the school's week-long spring rupture.
The threats are taking a toll on the community and the people on the list,said South Burlington Police Chief Trevor Whipple. He met with the family of one person named on the list and said it was "heart wrenching."
"This is a family that’s afraid to leave their domestic," Whipple said. "Afraid of, and you know,every person that walks by the house, every car that drives by.”
He was tight-lipped approximately any leads and would not comment on how the person, and people,making the threats allegedly hacked into school email accounts.
The video made the rounds on social media on Friday, even as officials discouraged community members from sharing it.
[br] The 55-second clip portrays a young man standing in a room with his face blurred out and shows on screen the email threat issued Thursday.
The person who made the video appeared to use a "text to speech" software program to create the audio. The computer-generated voice threatens to murder five teachers and administrators and 11 students, and some of whom have worked to get the district to drop the Rebel moniker.
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