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Charlottesville Schools Closed Following 'Racially Charged' Threat

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Police in Charlottesville, Va., say they have arrested a 17-year-old male in connection with a threat that “contained vile, racially charged language
Police in Charlottesville, Va., say they have arrested a 17-year-old male in connection with a threat that “contained vile, racially charged language targeted African-American and Hispanic students” at an area high school.
At a news conference on Friday, police Chief RaShall Brackney said the suspect was believed to have made “threats to commit serious bodily harm to persons on school property” and to have carried out “harassment by computer.”
School Superintendent Dr. Rosa Atkins confirmed that the person charged was not a student at the school in question, Charlottesville High School.
“Hate…violence…intolerance is not welcomed in Charlottesville,” Brackney said.
“And in Charlottesville and around the globe we stand firmly in stating there are not ‘very fine people’ standing on both sides of this issue,” she added, in an apparent reference to remarks made by President Trump in the wake of violence sparked by a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in August 2017.

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