Lillian

A jury on Thursday found Chad Reeves, 44, and Reese Hopkin, 40, not guilty of battery causing serious injury to Jaime and Lillian Grenfell, a married couple in their 60s.

“That was all that counted. It was Lillian Gish who convinced me that the films belong to the public and that I had no right to destroy them.”

Federal agents showed up April 7 unannounced and without a judicial warrant at Russell Elementary and Lillian Street Elementary in the Florence-Graham neighborhood of South Los Angeles.

Lillian Carranza said the owners informed the department that the thieves took about $5 million worth of merchandise.

Federal agents showed up last Monday unannounced and without a judicial warrant at Russell Elementary and at Lillian Street Elementary in the Florence-Graham neighborhood of South Los Angeles.