A video circulating on social media that includes a lady eradicating posters with photographs of kidnapped Israeli victims on the College of Southern California (USC) has gone viral. The New York-based nonpartisan group, Cease Antisemitism, claims it has recognized the girl because the daughter of Redmond, Washington mayor Angela Birney. Redmond has a inhabitants of 76,354 and is house to Microsoft and Nintendo of America.
Mayor Birney has remained silent in regards to the video and has locked down her social media accounts. I emailed her by her mayor’s workplace account for a remark. If and when she replies, I will replace this put up.
The viral video reveals a lady tearing flyers from a bulletin board within the hallway of a constructing at USC. The person who’s recording the video asks the girl, “Why are you taking these down?” The lady, holding a number of flyers, tears down a minimum of eight extra. She then appears on the man recording her and says “Hey,” whereas smiling. She continues to tear down the posters, then appears over on the man and giggles, then returns to ripping down the photographs.
“Why are you laughing? That is not humorous,” the person says. Her reply is difficult to make out, however you may hear her say “genocide.”
“It is not genocide. They’re kidnapped people,” the person says as the girl walks away with the posters.
USC issued an announcement promising to look into the matter:
We’re conscious of a social media put up of an individual eradicating posters from what seems to be a constructing on our campus. We all know that is upsetting to lots of you and encourage everybody within the USC group to respect others’ views/act with civility in direction of one another. We’re wanting into this however are prohibited from offering further info resulting from pupil privateness legal guidelines. You possibly can study extra about our sources, reassurances and solutions that will help you navigate.
USC girl filmed ripping down poster after poster of kidnapped Israelis has been recognized as Rachel Birney.
Birney is presently within the PhD program on the Faculty of Pure Science & Arithmetic and can also be a Physics TA. pic.twitter.com/f9J7aQ0WWu
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) November 10, 2023
