Cenk Uygur
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USC Janitor Wrongfully Fired Over Backpack!?
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April 11, 2022
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5:02Now PlayingFrancisca Trigueros has lost her job of more than 20 years.
Students and professors are now rallying behind her and raising questions about whether a professor would be treated the same way. Jayar Jackson and David Shuster break it down on The Watchlist. Watch LIVE weekdays at noon ET.
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"On several floors of the Seeley G. Mudd building on USC’s campus, Francisca Trigueros was a known and trusted face. The 61-year-old custodian had been cleaning bathrooms, classrooms, labs, and offices there for more than two decades, and was on a first-name basis with many of the psychology professors and staff who worked there.
So when word got out that Trigueros had been suspended and arrested for allegedly stealing a student‘s backpack with cash in it, many of those same faculty members jumped to her defense — demanding the university investigate what they saw as a wrongful campus arrest based on a “simple misunderstanding.”
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