The community of Kiel, Wisconsin, has received a sixth bomb threat, according to local police, this time threatening the entire town.
The Wednesday threat comes following a controversy regarding a Title IX investigation involving three middle school students at Kiel Middle School.
The threats are related to three students who face sexual harassment charges for allegedly not using another student’s preferred pronouns.
“The City of Kiel Police Department received a threat that if the Kiel Area School District does not drop the Title IX investigation by Friday, June 3, 2022, multiple locations in the City of Kiel will be targeted,” according to a press release from the City of Kiel Police Department.
#BREAKING A 6th bomb threat has now been made to Kiel Police. This one now threatens the entire town. It stems from Title IX case. pic.twitter.com/Z1jl7gWZ2r
— Barrett Tryon Local 5 (@btreports) June 1, 2022
The list of threatened locations included all public and private schools, roads, utility stations, city buildings, local police, local stores, and the city’s wastewater treatment plant.
The city’s Emergency Management Team is reportedly investigating the matter in cooperation with local, state, and federal authorities. No other information was reported.
The city’s fifth bomb threat on Tuesday led to a search of targeted schools, Kiel City Hall, and Kiel Public Library. All buildings were evacuated. No explosive devices were found.
“Amid recent threats to Kiel Middle School, the school district sent a note on Monday to parents saying that high school graduation has been postponed until administrators can come up with an alternative plan,” WLUK-TV reported. “They also added that summer school and end-of-the-year field trips are canceled.”
Kiel received a fifth bomb threat this morning that led to the evacuation of schools, city hall and the public library. No devices were found: https://t.co/UUqFf62rLo
— WLUK-TV FOX 11 (@fox11news) May 31, 2022
The threats also led to the community’s Memorial Day parade being canceled. Several residents held their own parade despite the cancellation, according to local CBS 58.
The parents of the three eighth-graders were notified that their sons were being charged by school district officials with sexual harassment in April. The school district claimed that the boys were not referring to the student’s preferred pronouns of “they” and “them.”
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the families of the three students under investigation, requesting that the complaint be dropped.
“We live in a society where we resolve our differences by public debate and the rule of law. We do not resolve them by violence or threats of violence. The difference between our clients and the Kiel Area School District will be resolved through legal means,” WILL deputy counsel Luke Berg stated.
“As such, we unequivocally condemn whoever has sent threats to the Kiel Area School District. We do not know who made these threats, but they certainly do not speak for us or what we believe in.”
“We will not stand down because of them and, while we disagree with the Kiel Area School District, we wouldn’t expect it to be intimidated by threats either. For either of us to do so would be to sacrifice the rule of law to the rule of intimidation. We don’t need threats of violence to resolve our differences. Legal processes are more than adequate,” he added.
Source: Dailywire
