Lanier students march to City Hall, County Courthouse
About 100 Lanier High School students left their classrooms this morning and went on a head-turning march to City Hall and the Bexar County Courthouse. The students chanted "Si se puede" - Yes we can - in what they called a show of solidarity with the immigrant community. Lanier principal Richard Solis accompanied the students on the unsanctioned protest to make sure they were safe and to try to corral them back to school. "We have to really think about what we'll do to them," for skipping their classes, Solis said. More than two dozen San Antonio police cars, motorcycles, county constables, school district police, and a helicopter followed the students, blocking traffic at intersections and making sure they stayed on the sidewalk whenever possible. After leaving the County Courthouse steps, the students went down Durango to South Main, turned on E. Arsenal and went into the West Side down El Paso Street and over to Guadalupe. Councilwoman Patti Radle received a phone call from a student that the kids were leaving the school, so she came out and joined them to see if there was anything she could do to help the school administrators. "I think they know it's about discrimination and their community itself has suffered discrimination," Radle said. Solis said he believed the protest was spurred by the HBO movie Walkout, the true story of a group of Hispanic students that walked out of their East Los Angeles High School in 1958 to protest discrimination and school conditions.
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