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Dani Anguiano in Los Angeles

California university sues YouTubers who allegedly filmed disruptive pranks

University attorneys said the pranks had terrorized ‘students to the point where they are running out of lecture halls for fear of their lives’.
University attorneys said the pranks had terrorized ‘students to the point where they are running out of lecture halls for fear of their lives’. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

A pair of YouTubers are facing a lawsuit and a restraining order after allegedly filming themselves disrupting classes at the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles and uploading footage of the staged pranks online.

The University of Southern California sued Ernest Kanevsky and Yuguo Bai over the incidents, USC Annenberg Media reported last week. A judge granted a restraining order banning Kanevsky and Bai, who are not USC students, from campus after university attorneys said the pranks had terrorized “students to the point where they are running out of lecture halls for fear of their lives”.

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