Baltimore County Police arrested a 16-year-old on Friday for “disruptive and dangerous” behavior during student-led protests aimed at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a school official said in an email to families.
Erin O’Toole Trivas, principal of George Washington Carver Center for Arts and Technology, said the teen left campus after the demonstration and obstructed traffic.
“Students that violated the Code of Conduct will be subject to consequences in alignment with the BCPS Student Handbook and Board policy,” she wrote.
County police confirmed the student was arrested in a news release and reiterated that the countywide protests were not sanctioned by Baltimore County Public Schools.
District spokesperson Gboyinde Onijala previously told The Banner that, although students have a right to assemble, local administrators could set limits on demonstrations.
“Generally speaking, a student would not be suspended for participating in a walkout,” Onijala wrote in an email last week. “Now, if, during or even immediately following the walkout they engaged in behavior that is in direct violation of the Student Handbook, the school would provide appropriate consequences.”
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Baltimore County Police spokesperson Joy Lepola-Stewart did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Hundreds of students from two dozen high schools and middle schools across the district participated in demonstrations protesting ICE.
The school system issued a two-hour early dismissal across the district due to “impending inclement weather,” which coincided with many of the planned protests.
This article has been updated.
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