USC Student Journalists Say LAPD, School Kept Them From Covering Clearing of Pro-Palestine Camp

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The University of Southern California closed its main campus and allowed the Los Angeles Police Department to tear down a student encampment at Alumni Park early Sunday. USC student journalism outlet Annenberg Media reported on the events as they unfolded, until police closed the campus to everyone other than students and faculty, including forcing the media out. However, local CBS affiliate KCAL was somehow allowed on-campus to report, Annenberg Media's Mohammed Zain Shafi Khan told TheWrap. One officer told the student reporters that, because they "act like the media, and we're going . . .

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