A Los Angeles Ram fan, bleeding from his hand, holds a firework and points it down North Hope Street on February 13, 2021. Hundreds of Angelenos flocked to the streets of Downton Los Angeles after the Rams 2022 Super Bowl win, setting off fireworks into the sky filled with high rises above. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

A Ukrainian mother and child wait at the San Ysidro border crossing on April 11, 2022, after having just immigrated to the United States. In the months following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of Ukrainian nationals sought refuge in the United States through the Tijuana-San Diego border crossing. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Fernando Aguilera poses for a portrait on October 14, 2022, sitting on the curb where his best friend died. Aguilera was in the car when his best friend Efrain Moreno Jr. was fatally shot and killed. Aguilera, on the one-month anniversary of Moreno's death, went to the sight where Moreno passed to celebrate his friend's life. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Nicole Pavlopoulou swims the breaststroke in a practice session at the Uytengsu Aquatic Centers on December 10, 2022. Pavlopoulou, a senior swimmer on the USC Varsity Swim team, competed at the 2022 NCAA Championships, PR’ing in the 400y IM and finishing 31st overall. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Derrick Thomas, who prefers to go by Hawk, is a barber living on Skid Row. The 65-year-old Louisiana native has called Skid Row home for the last seven years, previously serving time in jail and the military. He smokes and sells methenamine, sometimes sharing it with his friends in his encampment. Throughout his life, barbering and substance abuse has followed him everywhere he went, first learning how to cut hair when he was 11, and getting high on heroin for the first time when he was 13. He still runs a barbershop on his block, charging $10 a head and $5 for children at the beginning of the school year. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Derrick Thomas, who prefers to go by Hawk, is a barber living on Skid Row. The 65-year-old Louisiana native has called Skid Row home for the last seven years, previously serving time in jail and the military. He smokes and sells methenamine, sometimes sharing it with his friends in his encampment. Throughout his life, barbering and substance abuse has followed him everywhere he went, first learning how to cut hair when he was 11, and getting high on heroin for the first time when he was 13. He still runs a barbershop on his block, charging $10 a head and $5 for children at the beginning of the school year. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Derrick Thomas, who prefers to go by Hawk, is a barber living on Skid Row. The 65-year-old Louisiana native has called Skid Row home for the last seven years, previously serving time in jail and the military. He smokes and sells methenamine, sometimes sharing it with his friends in his encampment. Throughout his life, barbering and substance abuse has followed him everywhere he went, first learning how to cut hair when he was 11, and getting high on heroin for the first time when he was 13. He still runs a barbershop on his block, charging $10 a head and $5 for children at the beginning of the school year. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Derrick Thomas, who prefers to go by Hawk, is a barber living on Skid Row. The 65-year-old Louisiana native has called Skid Row home for the last seven years, previously serving time in jail and the military. He smokes and sells methenamine, sometimes sharing it with his friends in his encampment. Throughout his life, barbering and substance abuse has followed him everywhere he went, first learning how to cut hair when he was 11, and getting high on heroin for the first time when he was 13. He still runs a barbershop on his block, charging $10 a head and $5 for children at the beginning of the school year. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Derrick Thomas, who prefers to go by Hawk, is a barber living on Skid Row. The 65-year-old Louisiana native has called Skid Row home for the last seven years, previously serving time in jail and the military. He smokes and sells methenamine, sometimes sharing it with his friends in his encampment. Throughout his life, barbering and substance abuse has followed him everywhere he went, first learning how to cut hair when he was 11, and getting high on heroin for the first time when he was 13. He still runs a barbershop on his block, charging $10 a head and $5 for children at the beginning of the school year. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Derrick Thomas, who prefers to go by Hawk, is a barber living on Skid Row. The 65-year-old Louisiana native has called Skid Row home for the last seven years, previously serving time in jail and the military. He smokes and sells methenamine, sometimes sharing it with his friends in his encampment. Throughout his life, barbering and substance abuse has followed him everywhere he went, first learning how to cut hair when he was 11, and getting high on heroin for the first time when he was 13. He still runs a barbershop on his block, charging $10 a head and $5 for children at the beginning of the school year. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Derrick Thomas, who prefers to go by Hawk, is a barber living on Skid Row. The 65-year-old Louisiana native has called Skid Row home for the last seven years, previously serving time in jail and the military. He smokes and sells methenamine, sometimes sharing it with his friends in his encampment. Throughout his life, barbering and substance abuse has followed him everywhere he went, first learning how to cut hair when he was 11, and getting high on heroin for the first time when he was 13. He still runs a barbershop on his block, charging $10 a head and $5 for children at the beginning of the school year. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Derrick Thomas, who prefers to go by Hawk, is a barber living on Skid Row. The 65-year-old Louisiana native has called Skid Row home for the last seven years, previously serving time in jail and the military. He smokes and sells methenamine, sometimes sharing it with his friends in his encampment. Throughout his life, barbering and substance abuse has followed him everywhere he went, first learning how to cut hair when he was 11, and getting high on heroin for the first time when he was 13. He still runs a barbershop on his block, charging $10 a head and $5 for children at the beginning of the school year. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Derrick Thomas, who prefers to go by Hawk, is a barber living on Skid Row. The 65-year-old Louisiana native has called Skid Row home for the last seven years, previously serving time in jail and the military. He smokes and sells methenamine, sometimes sharing it with his friends in his encampment. Throughout his life, barbering and substance abuse has followed him everywhere he went, first learning how to cut hair when he was 11, and getting high on heroin for the first time when he was 13. He still runs a barbershop on his block, charging $10 a head and $5 for children at the beginning of the school year. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

Derrick Thomas, who prefers to go by Hawk, is a barber living on Skid Row. The 65-year-old Louisiana native has called Skid Row home for the last seven years, previously serving time in jail and the military. He smokes and sells methenamine, sometimes sharing it with his friends in his encampment. Throughout his life, barbering and substance abuse has followed him everywhere he went, first learning how to cut hair when he was 11, and getting high on heroin for the first time when he was 13. He still runs a barbershop on his block, charging $10 a head and $5 for children at the beginning of the school year. (Photo by Yannick Peterhans)

A couple kissing in front of Marseille City Hall, Marseille, France, at the end of the Marseille Pride Parade, on July 2, 2022. Thousands of people marched from Porte d'Aix with many of them holding up symbols of the fight for abortion rights because of the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade in the United States.

Pro and anti-abortion protesters clashing at Long Beach City College's Liberal Arts Campus, Long Beach, Calif. on Nov. 6, 2022, as California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) speaks at a rally in support of Prop. 1. Proposition 1 proposes amending the state's constitution to enshrine the right to reproductive freedom.

Los Angeles City Council member Gil Cedillo (district 1) speaking on stage at El Grito 2022 at the Los Angeles City Hall, in Los Angeles, Calif. on Sept. 15, 2022 (Caylo Seals | The Corsair)

Santa Monica College Corsair Nolan McBride (left) attempting to block a goal from Los Angeles Valley College Monarch Sam Krboyan (right) during a recent home game. The Corsairs lost 23-4. Santa Monica, Calif. on Sept. 28, 2022. (Caylo Seals | The Corsair)

Leila [lastname withheld] holding a rose and sign that reads "death to the regime" at the Freedom For Iran rally on the steps of Los Angeles City Hall. The rally marched from Pershing Square with at least a thousand people in attendance as well as being part of a larger global action surrounding the death of Mahsa Amini. Los Angeles, Calif. on Oct. 1, 2022. (Caylo Seals | The Corsair)

Rally goers holding a banner with a picture of Mahsa Amini during the fourth Freedom for Iran protest to take place in the Los Angeles area. These protests are part of a global movement calling for regime change in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini, this one took place on Oct. 22, 2022 at Pershing Square in Los Angeles, Calif. (Caylo Seals | The Corsair)

Bahar Khosropour performing a die-in in honor of those murdered and imprisoned in Iran. This performance was during the Freedom for Iran human chain in Glendale, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, as part of a global action. (Caylo Seals | The Corsair)

Shima Safarnezhad performing a die-in in honor of those murdered and imprisoned in Iran. This performance was during the Freedom for Iran human chain in Glendale, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, as part of a global action. (Caylo Seals | The Corsair)

Freedom for Iran rally goers chanting, singing, and listening to speakers before the march begins on Hollywood Blvd, in Hollywood, Calif. on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. This rally is part of a global movement that has taken place since the death of Mahsa Amini. (Caylo Seals | The Corsair)

The crowd at the Freedom for Iran rally on Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, Calif. on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022. (Caylo Seals | The Corsair)

Darush Morid finishing a one and half mile run in solidarity with the on-going protest in Iran near the Wilshire Federal Building, in Los Angeles, Calif. on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. This was the lastest demonstration to take place in Los Angeles since Oct. 1.. (Caylo Seals | The Corsair)

A demonstrator leading chants during the Freedom for Iran rally in Los Angeles, Calif. on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022.

A demonstrator holding her hands in the shape of a heart while the Iranian national athem from before the revolution is playing during the Freedom for Iran rally in Los Angeles, Calif. on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022.