Students Trash Walmart During Gun Walkout

By Fox 5. Chicago police are trying to identify the dozens of students from Simeon Career Academy who they say took part in a vandalism spree while they were supposed to be protesting guns.

Shoppers and store employees were stunned by the destruction Wednesday morning at the Walmart in Chatham Market on the South Side.

Chicago police say it started when students at neighboring Simeon Career Academy were allowed to leave the school for 17 minutes to take part in the nationwide walkout to protest guns.

Police say between 40 and 60 of those students crossed the street and trashed parts of the store, knocking over product displays, yanking items off shelves, breaking packages and stealing small items like chips and candy . . .

Some of the students that FOX 32 talked to at Simeon say they’re angry that a walkout intended to promote peace instead led to vandalism and violence. (Read more from “Students Trash Walmart During Gun Walkout” HERE)

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Ohio Student Suspended for Refusing to Leave Classroom During Gun Control Walkout

By IJR. A high school student in Hilliard, Ohio, didn’t want to pick sides in the contentious gun debate surrounding Wednesday’s “National Walkout,” so he stayed in class instead of joining the largely anti-gun protest or an alternative “study hall.”

Hilliard Davidson High School senior Jacob Shoemaker was then reportedly slapped with a suspension.

The student argued that divisive politics have no place in America’s schools and he refused to take sides in the debate, according to the Associated Press.

Shoemaker’s suspension citation was posted online, possibly by a friend, and the story quickly went viral. (Read more from “Ohio Student Suspended for Refusing to Leave Classroom During Gun Control Walkout” HERE)

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