Hundreds of Long Beach Unified students walked out of school and marched to City Hall on Friday, in protest of the federal government’s militant immigration crackdowns, including federal agents’ recent killing of two people in Minneapolis.
At Cabrillo High School, students began gathering in the quad just before 11 a.m., carting snacks and bottled water for protestors and practicing “ICE out” chants with bullhorns. Two alums who graduated last spring, Zay Gutierrez and Enrique Dominguez, helped organize the walkout and said adults from Safe Passage and the Party of Socialism and Liberation would join the march.
“As alumni, we want to be the best role models we can be,” supporting current students in their activism, said Gutierrez, who is currently a student at Long Beach City College…