A heavy presence of police officers responded to Disneyland after reportedly receiving calls of a mass shooting at the beloved theme park Wednesday night.
Details are limited and it’s unclear exactly what time police responded to the park, but footage of the scene obtained by KTLA showed at least a dozen Anaheim Police Department patrol cruisers staged on Disneyland grounds.
Anaheim PD Sgt. Matt Sutter told KTLA that investigators believed the incident was a “swatting,” a criminal hoax where a caller reports a false emergency, often claiming there’s an active shooter or a bomb threat, prompting a response from a police department’s SWAT Teams, but that police were clearing the scene out of an abundance of caution.
Despite reports of a mass shooting and the large law enforcement presence, the park was not evacuated, Sutter said…