Schools in Charlottesville, Virginia, were closed Thursday after someone threatened on the anonymous social site 4chan to launch an attack on Charlottesville High School. An anonymous poster claiming to be a student at the school threatened an “ethnic cleansing” there that would take place on Thursday, according to the message on 4chan reviewed by HuffPost. It’s unclear whether the threat was legitimate, but Charlottesville City Public Schools closed schools out of caution, a police spokesperson said. “We saw what happened during Unite the Right ― 4chan was a huge part of that,” Schmidt said. Local teachers expressed anger on Twitter about having to explain to students that they live with such a threat.

Source: Huffington Post March 21, 2019 15:00 UTC