Скачать или смотреть Students walkout across multiple Baltimore County high schools to protest ICE

Over the objections of Sparrows Point High School Principal Larissa Santos, around 50 students marched out of school Friday morning shouting “ICE OUT! ICE OUT!”

Around two dozen high school and middle schools in Baltimore County participated in Friday’s walkouts, but an hour before they began, Baltimore County Public Schools issued a 12:30 p.m. districtwide dismissal for “impending inclement weather.”

Friday’s forecast called for a high of 34 degrees with “intermittent snow and flurries with little to no accumulation.” The two-hour early closure overlapped with the times of many scheduled protests.

Sparrows Point seniors Mariana “Mar” Pastor and Carmen Butrim — who organized the countywide walkouts through their Instagram page, @bcpssocialjustice — were furious about the closure.

“We know exactly what BCPS did,” Pastor, 18, said. “They tried to silence us.”

District spokesperson Oboyinde Onijala told the Banner schools were closing because of the weather, but had no other comment about the walkouts.

Reporting by Céilí Doyle.
Video by Céilí Doyle and Kaitlin Newman.
Video edited by Krishna Sharma.

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