LOS ANGELES — The University of California, Los Angeles moved in-person classes online Tuesday after a former lecturer and postdoctoral fellow sent a video referencing a mass shooting and an 800-page manifesto with “specific threats” to members of the university’s philosophy department Monday.
Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said police are working with the FBI to investigate the threats, but on Tuesday, he said he thinks the UCLA campus is safe.
Several emails from department leaders that were obtained by the Los Angeles Times inform students and faculty that Matthew Harris made threats toward the philosophy department and people in it. In some of the emails, sent over the course of Monday evening, department heads recommend moving to virtual learning, and multiple instructors did so, alerting students that in-person classes would not be held.
