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By Tomoki Chien & Claire Qiu

Good morning. Here are the five USC, Los Angeles and California stories you need to know for today.

1.

Prosecutors charged seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse with manslaughter for their roles in the 2020 death of a man in custody who shouted “I can’t breathe!” as the officers forcibly drew blood to measure his alcohol level. Video footage showed that none of the defendants acted with urgency even after the man, Edward Bronstein, went limp and lost his pulse.

Richard Winton and James Queally / Los Angeles Times

2.

California may end a ban on state-funded travel to any state with laws it deems are anti-LGBTQ. The prohibition was initially in retaliation to a 2016 North Carolina ban on transgender people using public bathrooms according to their gender identity. Following a surge of LGBTQ-discriminatory legislation in many Republican states, that ban now applies to nearly half the country.

Adam Beam / Associated Press

3.

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is set to open in 2025 across the street from USC. (It’s the building that looks vaguely like a spaceship on Exposition Boulevard.) The museum, which is the work of the filmmaker and USC alumnus George Lucas, will host some 100,000 paintings and book and magazine illustrations; it won’t be a Star Wars shrine, to the chagrin of nerds around the world.

Soumya Karlamangla / The New York Times

4.

Californians can now take advantage of a new program that helps first-time homebuyers finance down payments in an increasingly competitive market. To qualify for the program, which is run by the California Housing Finance Agency, individuals must not have owned a home for the past three years and remain under their county-specific income limit.

Iman Palm / KTLA

5.

Scientists found that an unusually severe parasite killed four sea otters off the California coast. The parasite, which hasn’t previously been seen on the California coast, is cause for concern: It could pose a public health risk if it works its way up the food chain and eventually onto dinner tables, where it could infect humans.

Dani Anguiano / The Guardian

You’re all caught up. Thanks for reading Morning, Trojan, and have a good day. Anna Hsu copy edited this newsletter.

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