Authorities are investigating a staff member’s report of a “racist pipe bomb” found on an Inglewood elementary school campus, district officials told KTLA on Thursday.

Although the Inglewood Unified School District did not immediately provide an official recount of the events, a representative confirmed that the alleged incident occurred on Wednesday at Bennett-Kew School.

Najee Ali, a local civil rights activist and director of Project Islamic Hope, released a statement after speaking with the staff member who reported finding the device.

“On the morning of September 10th, Tammy Mosley an African American resource specialist at the school, went to her vehicle in the staff parking lot around 8:30 a.m. to retrieve supplies,” Ali said in the release. “She discovered the device placed behi

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