'We care': Family separation protests flood U.S. cities
POMONA, CALIF. » Authorities WASHINGTON » They wore say a Southern California white. They shook their fists college public security in the air. They carried signs
specialist has been stabbed reading: “No more children in
to death and the suspect fatally cages,” and “What’s next? Concentration shot by police. Camps?”
The Los Angeles Sheriff’s In major cities and tiny Department said Saturday towns, hundreds of thousands
that the 37-year-old victim’s of marchers gathered Saturday
body was found in his patrol across America, moved by accounts truck Friday afternoon of children separated
on the campus of California from their parents at the U.S.Mexico
Polytechnic University, border, in the latest act
Pomona. of mass resistance against President
Department spokeswoman Donald Trump’s immigration Trina Schrader said policies. witnesses found the suspect Protesters flooded more nearby and that campus police than 700 marches, from immigrant-friendly fatally shot him about cities like New
30 minutes later. York and Los Angeles to conservative
Schrader says the knife Appalachia and Wyoming.
used to kill the victim was They gathered on the
recovered. She didn’t release front lawn of a Border Patrol any more details or station in McAllen, Texas, near
the identities of the victim a detention center where migrant
and suspect. children were being held
The university, east of in cages, and on a street corner
Los Angeles, has more than near Trump’s golf resort at
25,000 undergraduate and Bedminster, New Jersey, where
graduate students. the president is spending the weekend.
“Do you know where our children are?” one protester’s sign there asked. Another offered: “Even the Trump family belongs together.”