STANFORD, Calif. — Students graduating from Stanford University and women's rights advocates used the US school's commencement ceremony on Sunday to again express their anger over the six-month jail sentence given to a former student for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman.
A handful of students demonstrated during "Wacky Walk," a rambunctious, slow-moving stroll by graduating students dressed in zany costumes that precedes the official graduation events.
A plane flew over during the commencement ceremony, carrying a banner that read, "Protect survivors, not rapists."
Plane w/ banner over Stanford Univ. commencement: protect survivors not rapists,<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/perskeymustgo?src=hash">#perskeymustgo</a> <a href="https://t.co/h4Qyq65avy">pic.twitter.com/h4Qyq65avy</a>
PROTEST Students at Stanford use graduation to highlight outrage over Brock Turner sentencing. More in mins on 6abc <a href="https://t.co/F1AbmToRzD">pic.twitter.com/F1AbmToRzD</a>
Here’s how people protested the Brock Turner sentencing at Stanford’s graduation https://t.co/jwNyMtk0DP pic.twitter.com/DMygS4JuS8
— BuzzFeed (@BuzzFeed) June 13, 2016
Organizers said they wanted to show solidarity to the woman sexually assaulted on campus last year by former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner.
The victim's emotional statement to the court about how the assault devastated her life was widely shared online, attracting national attention to the case.
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