Photos from outside California’s Lockheed Martin Palo Alto offices where “Yemen” was sprayed in blood-red letters have been going viral for the past few days.
According to media reports, a 34-year-old former Silicon Valley Business Journal reporter has been taken into custody after marching to Lockheed Martin’s Palo Alto offices and spraying Yemen’s name on its entrance before he called the police to arrest him. He was identified as Bryce Druzin.
#ResistanceFriday a brave man spray-painted the word “Yemen” in blood-red letters over the @LockheedMartin sign to protest its weapons sales to Saudi Arabia. “8-9-18,” the date when a 500-pound, laser-guided Lockheed Martin-made bomb hit a school bus, killing 44 Yemeni children. pic.twitter.com/Wb3uyCYIwU
— SFPhotoguy (@SFPhotoguy) May 3, 2019
Reports have also said he sprayed “8-9-18” on some stairs leading to the entrance, which is the date when a Saudi-led coalition dropped a Lockheed Martin-made bomb on a school bus, killing 44 children.
Druzin’s move came as a protest of the US support of Saudi-led war on Yemen, during which 44 children were killed. He confirmed his aim is to call attention to the ongoing war and the weapon maker’s direct involvement in it.
He was reportedly arrested and charged of felony vandalism before being released the next morning on his own recognizance.
