USC Sues Two YouTubers Over Terrorism “Pranks”

The Associated Press reports:

The University of Southern California is suing two YouTube performers who the school says created panic after barging into classrooms to film prank videos for their channels. Court documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times claim the pair caused “terror and disruption” during three “classroom takeover incidents” in the university’s Mark Taper Hall of Humanities. The YouTubers, Ernest Kanevsky and Yuguo Bai, are not USC students.

In the latest incident, on March 29, Kanevsky and Bai interrupted a lecture on the Holocaust while pretending to be “a member of the Russian Mafia” and Hugo Boss, a known manufacturer of Nazi uniforms during World War II. Students ran from the classroom — in some cases tripping over seats and leaving behind laptops and backpacks — in an attempt to flee “what reasonably appeared to them as a credible threat of imminent classroom violence,” the court filing says.

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The University of Southern California is suing two YouTubers for allegedly causing “terror and disruption” after barging into classrooms to film prank videos for their channels.https://t.co/LAeIYIkOyR

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 11, 2022