San Leandro High School Lockdown Lifted

SAN LEANDRO, CA — San Leandro High School students joined the National School Walkout to protest gun violence, they were just several hours late. At the scheduled time, 10 a.m., they were on lockdown because of a shooting threat. The lockdown was lifted once police confirmed that no threat existed.

This message was found scrawled on a bathroom wall, "I'm shooting the school tomorrow at 1. I'm sick of this s***. Better not come. F*** this place."

As a result, the school was locked down and police systematically swept the building.

Soon after the lockdown began, San Leandro Police issued a message to community saying that in response to the threat school "district leaders decided to place the school on lockdown. This is strictly a precautionary move in order to systematically inspect the school grounds.

"The district is following all security procedures to insure student and staff safety. The San Leandro Police Department is on campus working in coordination with district and site administrative staff to insure student and staff safety at the site. Again, this action is solely a precautionary decision to confirm that no threat exist."

During the lockdown, students tweeted about the situation. @Julian25L tweeted a photo of students with a hand painted banner, with the comment "This was us only 5 minuets before the lockdown happened at San Leandro high school, we wanted our voices to be heard for the nation wide walk our walk at 10, such irony is sad."

Another student, @ramonnapoles02 shared the same photo with the comment, "I am a student from San Leandro High School. We had just made this sign and now look what’s happening. We will never be safe anywhere not as long as we don’t do anything about it. we need to be the generation that stops this. We have lost to many people to automatic assault rifles."

Following the lockdown, students marched behind the banner shown in the tweets.

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