As part of their culinary program, juniors at St. Paul's Upper Mississippi Academy prepared a Thanksgiving Day meal for their senior neighbors who live at Central Towers. From the poultry to the potatoes, everything was prepared by students.
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 âto fight for what I believe inâ, 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 âNational Guard go home.â 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
âItâs a shame that the children have to come out and fight for our lives,â a student from North Community high school told the crowd of at least 600 young people.
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With some waiting for the verdict in Derek Chauvin’s murder trial and others grieving the loss of 20-year-old Daunte Wright, the Instagram-organized protest brought out students from 118 Minnesota schools protest.
A group called Minnesota Teen Activists was created in response to racism in schools and the police killing of George Floyd. Its founder Gabby Hou, a sophomore at Champlin Park High School in Brooklyn Park, lead a chant around the US Bank Stadium, The New York Times reported.
At 1:47 p.m., the exact time Daunte Wright was shot eight days before, the teenaged protesters sat on the ground for a moment of silence that lasted for three minutes.