On Wednesday morning, Clifford Durand, an 18-year-old student at St. Johns University in New York, presented a challenge to his Twitter followers: He would smash a fellow students laptop which was adorned with a Donald Trump sticker if his photo of her got 7,000 retweets. What followed was a social media battle in which the post went viral and the two students ended up in a physical altercation after class.
Friends of Durand claim the post was a joke, but when it gained steam, garnering more than 20,000 retweets, it caught the attention of the pictured student, Brianna Algazali, who confronted Durand in a hallway after class. She asked him to take the tweet down, and one student told the New York Daily News that Durand replied, Make me.
Thats when other students say things got physical. She raised her voice and she threw her drink on him, a friend of Durand told the New York Daily News. He looked like he was in shock. I went toward him to hold him back.