The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation after vandals broke into and desecrated a Catholic school campus in Long Beach, California, destroying religious statues and causing extensive damage, federal and local officials said.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announced in a Monday X post that the department’s Civil Rights Division would investigate what she described as an “awful crime,” tagging Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The @CivilRights will open an investigation into this awful crime. @AGPamBondi https://t.co/MEo6DbUTM5
— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) February 3, 2026
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The incident occurred at Holy Innocents Catholic School in Long Beach, where school officials said intruders ransacked the campus overnight on Sunday. The school’s assembly hall, chapel, and classrooms were broken into, with statues smashed, images of the Virgin Mary and other religious figures destroyed, and a
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