The mother of a student at USC was on campus trying to take photos with her daughter ahead of graduation when she found herself trying to stop someone from…
Amid the demonstrations and encampments set up at USC’s campus over the weekend, many families were on campus for a different reason – to take graduation pictures with their children.
Renee was standing in line to take a photo in front of the university’s iconic Tommy Trojan statue just moments before a woman, wearing a mask, spray painted the words “Say No to Genocide”, vandalizing the nearly 100-year old statue. “I just ran and tried to get her away from the statue,” she said. “I already made a full circle around with her trying to create space and make myself as large as I could to prevent her from getting to the statue.”
On Sunday, the statue was power washed and Monday, it was being protected by guard rails as workers continued the clean up.Joel Curran, USC's Senior Vice President of Communications issued a statement in response to the latest unrest.
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