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Hundreds join Minneapolis high school walkouts: Police don t care about us

Hundreds join Minneapolis high school walkouts: ‘Police don’t care about us’ Amudalat Ajasa in Saint Paul and Lois Beckett in Minneapolis © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images “National guard, go home!” hundreds of teenagers chanted in a heavily fortified Minneapolis on Monday, as part of statewide high school walkouts over the police killings of Daunte Wright and George Floyd. In neighboring Saint Paul, more than a hundred students took their grievances over police brutality to the capitol, where lawmakers inside the fenced-in statehouse could be seen peeking out through the curtains to look at protesters outside.

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As a young Black man, he said, he had to come to the protest, even though his mother, worried about the risk, had tried to convince him not to. He wanted “to fight for what I believe in”, he said. Hundreds of high school students staged a walkout and gathered in downtown Minneapolis to protest the deaths of Daunte Wright and George Floyd and chant “National Guard go home.” At least 600 young people in the the crowd by 2:45. Speakers and participants were 16, 17 years old. pic.twitter.com/E4u2qWnQ7V Lois Beckett (@loisbeckett) April 19, 2021 “It’s a shame that the children have to come out and fight for our lives,” a student from North Community high school told the crowd of at least 600 young people.

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