Students Protesting ICE Plan Walkout At Marin County High School

SAN RAFAEL, CA — Students at San Rafael High School said they planned to walk out of school at Friday afternoon and march together to City Hall in protest of recent killings by federal agents.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Nicole Good on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis, sparking protests all over the U.S.

A 37-year-old man, identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, was fatally shot by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis Saturday, marking the second person federal officers have killed in the city in less than three weeks.

“Seeing ice agents out in the U.S. killing people is incredibly heartbreaking and hard to hear about,” Kira Kraft, an SRHS student and walkout organizer, told Patch. “It fuels my passion to speak my mind and do something about it, as it is very wrong and should not be normalized or desensitized.”

The walkout was planned by Kraft and other SRHS students who said they are deeply concerned about their community and the future of others.

“I hope the impact of this walkout for our community will be showing this community and hopefully this country that the youth is fed up with the administration and we are using our right to protest to show that we have voices,” Kraft told Patch.

The event will be supervised by school staff and local police officers.

The students said their goal is to create a calm, organized and positive environment where students can express themselves respectfully and responsibly.

Kraft told Patch she and fellow student and walkout organizer Dilan Lovato want this protest to show the power of the youth.

"I would appreciate there being more people speaking out about political opinions and making it more normalized to have open conversation within classrooms about political ideals,” Kraft told Patch.