A New York City school is drawing heavy backlash after a viral video depicted an anti-United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) protest inside a classroom.
Libs of TikTok shared a video on Sunday, Feb. 1, that was filmed at the Chloe Day School & Wellness Center in Harlem, N.Y., this past Friday to coincide with National Shutdown Day. The video begins with Dr. Sanayi Beckles-Canton, the school’s director, standing in front of a group of children and staff and bemoaning the “violent acts” taking place in New York City.
“It’s too cold outside for us to go outside and protest,” Beckles-Canton says. “Our teachers cannot walk off the job and leave our children unsupervised. So today, we decided, in solidarity, we would support all those who are out protesting the violence that we see and the harm that we see happening to our friends.”…