A student at Washington University unilaterally removed thousands of 9/11 memorial flags and piled them into garbage bags in a protest against Islamophobia and US military interventions, according to the college newspaper. In a video posted online, the student can be seen holding multiple plastic bags containing the small American flags that he had removed from a memorial on Mudd Field at the university in St Louis, Missouri. The flags — a total of 2,977 — were placed on the lawn to honor the people who lost their lives in the attacks 20 years on.The student has since been identified...
