Students at four Washington, D.C. universities kick off activist events for the school year with walkouts to protest against the National Guard presence in D.C.
Students at four D.C. universities walked out of class in protest nearly a month after the start of the federal law enforcement surge in the city, and organizers say they have more events planned.
Students at American, Howard, Georgetown, and George Washington universities left class on Sept. 9 to protest the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard as part of a larger surge in federal law enforcement aimed at reducing crime. The walkout is the first major event at these campuses for this school year.
This past August, President Donald Trump declared the nation’s capital unsafe, citing rising violence. He declared a crime emergency and deployed federal law enforcement agents and members of the National Guard to address that crime…