{"id":133814,"date":"2026-03-09T21:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133814\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T21:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T21:19:19","slug":"mayor-corey-oconnor-speaks-to-students-as-police-continue-to-investigate-scanner-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133814\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Corey O’Connor speaks to students as police continue to investigate scanner threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past two weeks, there have been threats and attacks against mayors in cities across the country, including in Pittsburgh against Mayor Corey O’Connor<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Threats over local scanner channels are still being investigated as the mayor spoke to students about eradicating hate on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

Mayor Corey O’Connor said we cannot allow hate like this to fester while these incidents continue to happen.<\/p>\n

More than two dozen schools took part in the summit at Acrisure Stadium. It was only last week when, for multiple days in a row, threats came to the mayor over the first responder scanner channels.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mayor O’Connor’s 2-year-old son was scared by the intimidating messages.<\/p>\n

“Then, that’s scary for all of us, that kids at the age of two are starting to feel unsafe,” Mayor O’Connor said after his keynote address.<\/p>\n

Police are still investigating this case. There have been no new threats since last Wednesday.<\/p>\n

This past weekend, two Pennsylvania men were charged in connection with an explosive attack outside New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s home<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“New York City will never tolerate violence, whether from protests or counterprotests,” he said about the attack.<\/p>\n

Mayor O’Connor said threats against leaders are something the U.S. Conference of Mayors has seen in too many cities, and it is happening too often.<\/p>\n

“We can all have disagreements on how things work or different agreements on policy, but ultimately, to threaten other mayors’ lives, it’s not accomplishing anything,” Mayor O’Connor said.<\/p>\n

His message to the students on Monday was to help create a world where this is not the norm. O’Connor wants the area to be stronger because of the different backgrounds people bring to the region.<\/p>\n

“The more and more we can get together as a community and talk about our different visions, thoughts, and beliefs, the better we are all going to be,” Mayor O’Connor said.<\/p>\n

According to the mayor, leaders are working to establish protocols to prevent further threats over scanner channels.<\/p>\n

In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the past two weeks, there have been threats and attacks against mayors in cities across the country,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35679,238,73,75,74,18151],"class_list":["post-133814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-corey-o039connor","tag-new-york-city","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}