LAUSD will deploy school police to set up safe zones around campuses, graduations amid ICE raids

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LATimes

The announcement by Supt. Alberto Carvalho comes amid widespread immigration raids in Los Angeles — including one on Monday at a Home Depot adjacent to Huntington Park High School — after a weekend of isolated but intense downtown clashes between police and protesters, some of whom set self-driving Waymo cars on fire and threw rocks and fireworks.

"We stand strongly on the right side of law,” Carvalho said. “Every student in our community, every student across the country, has a constitutional right to a free public education of high quality, without threat. Every one of our students, independently of their immigration status, has a right to a free meal in our schools. Every one of our children, no questions asked, has a right to counseling, social emotional support, mental support.”

Carvalho did not rule out the potential for a standoff involving school police if federal officers attempted to enter a school or an off-campus school event — such as a graduation ceremony — without a judicial warrant.

The necessity of protecting kids, especially during graduation, enrages me.

[FirstLight]

1. as someone who has worked in the school district in my little town...

and Boys & Girls Club... I pray they can keep these kids safe! I have done lockdown drills, never thought I'd see the day when they'd be locking down AGAINST the police...

[House of Roberts]

2. If someone shows up armed and masked,

they should be shot on sight. They shouldn't get close enough to serve any bogus warrants in the first place.

[kimbutgar]

3. At my school that I sub at in Northern California we were told do not let any uniformed people with ICE vests in except

Only our local PD if there is an incident they need to deal with.