{"id":197443,"date":"2019-02-27T15:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T21:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=197443"},"modified":"2019-02-27T16:08:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T22:08:54","slug":"signs-lila-rose-stolen-ucla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/signs-lila-rose-stolen-ucla\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs promoting upcoming Lila Rose event stolen, vandalized at UCLA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lila Rose, the founder and president of Live Action, is scheduled to give a talk at her alma mater, the University of California, Los Angeles next Monday, March 4th. The speech is being presented by Live Action UCLA, an on-campus pro-life group, and Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) UCLA. Like other events on campus, Rose’s speech was being advertised on campus at the Bruin Walk with signs and a table manned by members of YAF. But within just days of the signs being posted, they were vandalized and stolen.<\/p>\n

Nina Rose, president of Live Action UCLA, spoke to Live Action News about the theft and what this will mean for Rose’s speech and other pro-life events in the future. “To advertise the event, we put out a sign board on Bruin Walk, which is basically the walkway where all the students take to get to class, and it’s very standard for a student organization to put a sign board out, like an A-frame, so we put ours up in a line-up with a dozen other signs,” she explained. “It’s fairly safe; most people just put their signs out there for the year and there’s no problem.”<\/p>\n

But there were issues with their sign almost immediately. “We put our sign up on Tuesday, in a metal frame with the sign inside. By the weekend, it had already been stolen,” Rose said. “Somebody basically just stole the sign for Lila’s talk — they didn’t steal the frame, so they just took the sign out of it.”<\/p>\n

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Prior to the theft of the sign, however, there had been problems with people trying to keep students from seeing the details of Rose’s event. “Before that, we’d actually noticed that, as several other members were going to class, people would turn the sign so it was facing towards the bushes, so people couldn’t see it as they passed by,” she said. “That happened several times before it was stolen.”<\/p>\n

Monday morning, Rose was told the sign was stolen, and she filed a police report. While police investigate, the sign advertising Rose’s speech has been replaced by general signs advertising the Live Action UCLA club. But that, too, was vandalized. Members of YAF were manning a table to advertise for Rose’s speech when they saw a woman kick over a sign in front of a crowd of students.<\/p>\n