PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Students from several Florida high schools have taken to the streets in a show of solidarity with students from a nearby school where 17 students were gunned down in their classrooms on Valentine’s Day.
Video footage taken from television news helicopter crews showed several dozen students who walked out of West Boca Raton High School on Tuesday morning, apparently bound for Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in nearby Parkland. Many of the students were wearing their backpacks. The distance between the schools is about 11 miles (17 kilometers).
Several dozen more students gathered outside Fort Lauderdale High School, holding signs with messages that included “our blood is on your hands.”
On Monday, students at American Heritage High School held a similar protest.
Former Stoneman student, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, is charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder.
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