The death threats aim at the boss of emergency management in St. Louis.

St. Louis – The authorities said on Wednesday that they examined online death threats against the emergency manager of the city administration, which was put on vacation after a deadly tornado of the past week.

The death threats were discussed hours after Sarah Russell's admission on Tuesday evening.

“This is inappropriate and terrible,” said the mayor of St. Louis, Cara Spencer, in a press conference on Wednesday morning. “Our commissioner is a human being and I ask for some grace.”

In a publication on Tuesday, Spencer said that Russell and other employees of the urban emergency management agency were not in their office, where there was a button for activating sirens – although strong storms were predicted. Russell said the fire brigade called the fire brigade to sound the sirens, but there was a collapse in communication.

It was still unclear on Wednesday whether one of the city's sirens sounded.

The Tornado tore through North St. Louis on Friday afternoon, damaged thousands of houses and killed five people in the city.

During the press conference on Wednesday, Spencer said that officials like themselves and Russell have to be held accountable, which is why Russell is on vacation.

Spencer has applied for an external examination.

“I also recognize that your job, your role, the role of the Cema director is to protect the life of our entire community,” said the mayor.

The Alder woman Sharon Tyus, who was behind Spencer, interfered.

“People are innocent until they have proven to be guilty,” she said. “We have to treat such people.”

Robert Tracy, chief of police from St. Louis, confirmed the threats during the press conference and said that the secret service department of the department checked them.

“We are following that,” he said. “We ensure that we carry out a proper examination, see where it comes from because it is not acceptable. And we will pursue this with the full extent of the law.”

He said the investigators take the threats seriously, but could not provide any additional information.