A protest in downtown Los Angeles last week called for the abolition of the Los Angeles School Police Department, which protects school students from shootings and gang violence.
This came on the heels of the United Teachers Los Angeles, the teachers union for the city, joining a Black Lives Matter protest the week before demanding the department be disbanded.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the protest on Tuesday was followed by a march to a school board meeting calling for the school police to be abolished, even though the department was not initially on the agenda for the meeting.
Per the Times:
Hundreds of students, parents and community members gathered in front of a downtown L.A. high school Tuesday, calling for the elimination of the Los Angeles School Police Department, a force of about 470 officers and civilians.
The rally and march began at Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, just west of downtown, and ended at the nearby school district headquarters during an L.A. Board of Education meeting. The future of school policing,however, was not on the posted agenda of the closed-door session.
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