Brookline High School Students Stage Walk Out In Protest Of ICE: Report

BROOKLINE, MA — Hundreds of Brookline High School students left class early Wednesday to protest the recent actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement throughout the country, according to a report from Brookline News.

Renee Nicole Good, 37, was reportedly partially blocking a street where ICE operations were being conducted on Wednesday, Jan. 7. ICE agents approached her vehicle and attempted to open the driver’s side door. Good then put the car in reverse then forward to reportedly turn and drive away from the officers, however Officer Jonathan Ross fired three shots through the windshield, one of which struck Good in the head.

Alex Pretti, 37, was reportedly protesting the operations of ICE in the city of Minneapolis on Saturday, Jan. 26 which resulted in his death after being shot by an officer. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem originally said that Pretti had brandished a handgun while protesting and arguing with officers and violently resisted disarmament. However, multiple videos filmed by witnesses to the confrontation suggest that Pretti never took the firearm out himself and had it easily taken by officers. One officer then took out his own weapon and shot Pretti multiple times at point-blank range while he was subdued on the ground.

The students migrated outside City Hall with signs protesting the federal law enforcement agency. The group passed around a megaphone, making speeches and starting rallying chants. Brookline High Junior Chora Bayer held a sign with an illustration of the blue hat worn by Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old who was detained along with his father by ICE officers in Minnesota on Tuesday, Jan. 20. She said even when it is not in the news ICE detainments are happening constantly and that she wanted people to be conscious of it.

Read more at Brookline News.

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