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Students from more than 200 Colorado schools streamed out of classrooms Friday afternoon with angry pleas for federal immigration agents to halt raids targeting their classmates, neighbors, coworkers and community members.
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The walkout, organized by student-led organizations including the Colorado Youth Coalition, sent hundreds of students from the Denver metro area to the city’s La Alma-Lincoln Park. They carried signs with one short, sharp message for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials: “Stop tearing families apart. #IceOut”
“It’s honestly so sickening to come home from school, open my phone and see just terrible, terrible stories online of families getting separated and children getting deported and kidnapped by ICE,” Bre Kennedy, a junior at Grandview High School in Aurora and a cofounder of the Colorado Youth Coalition, told The Colorado Sun. “We are living on stolen land and borders are imaginary lines, and to see such horrible people do such horrible things is just so sickening.”
The protest is the latest outcry in Colorado as communities across the state have railed against federal agents detaining immigrants, most of whom have never been convicted of a crime.
The demonstration at La Alma-Lincoln Park took a tense turn when an adult counterprotester walked toward the park, holding a sign that read “I heart ICE.” A surge of students pounced on the man, following him and chanting, “Nazi scum off our streets!”
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A student eventually destroyed his sign. When he returned about two hours after the walkout started, a crowd of students bolted after him, throwing water bottles at him. One student struck him in the back of the head with a metal water bottle and he darted off, still trailed by students.
Organizers of the walkout urged students to ignore the man, saying he was simply trying to agitate them.
Denver police officers showed up to the scene shortly after the assault, prompting student protesters to begin marching throughout the streets.
“Stay in unison,” one protest leader shouted. “There are cops everywhere.”
As students were about to start their march down the street, a police officer notified them they were breaking the law and would be arrested if they did not leave the street. Students shifted to the sidewalk, matching and chanting, “No hate, no fear. Immigrants are welcome here!”
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This is a developing story that will be updated.