(CNN) Occidental College is investigating who vandalized a 9/11 memorial on campus by trashing its American flags. The Occidental College Republican Club said it had planted 2,997 tiny flags -- one for each of the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks -- on the quad of the Los Angeles liberal arts college of 2,100 students. Vandals uprooted hundreds of American flags honoring victims of the September 11, 2001, attack. "Vandals crushed, snapped and threw in the garbage every single flag," the college GOP club said on Facebook . Not only did they destroy the memorial, they put posters and fliers up that shamed the victims of 9/11.

Source: CNN September 12, 2016 20:37 UTC