Law enforcement officials in San Diego are investigating an anonymous ad placed on the website Craigslist which threatened attacks against the city’s LGBT community Wednesday. The threat was posted in the website’s “men seeking men” section and warned of an assault like Sunday’s terrorist attack at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
“Orlando was long overdue,” the poster wrote. “Cleanse your community of the filth that gives decent gay men and women a bad name. Those people were walking diseases, bug chasers, and thank god for AIDS and 9-11 and now Orlando. San Diego you are next.”
It isn’t clear whether or not the ad was a hoax, but San Diego police say they aren’t aware of any credible threats to the region. Nonetheless, they are conducting an investigation to determine who was responsible.
“As always,” Chief Shelley Zimmerman added, “we encourage our community if they see something, hear something or know something, to say something.”
Read more about the recent online threat here.