In Photos: Student Walkout Against ICE

Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have shot and killed nine people, and over 30 more have died in detention centers. On Friday, Feb. 27, GDS students skipped their eighth-period classes to join other D.C. high school students in front of the Lincoln Memorial. There, hundreds of students from across the District came together to protest the violence that ICE has inflicted across the country. Student organizers planned the walkout on Instagram under the handle @thefightisntoveryet. 

A Park Police officer stands silent as he watches over the protest from the top of the Lincoln Memorial’s steps. The shouts from below echo inside the Memorial, but the officer stays quiet—with the exception of telling students that there are no posters allowed inside the Memorial. Photos by Chloe Sachs.
Protestors can hear chants loud and clear through the megaphone. Hundreds of students respond in unison: “ICE out!”
A student holds a printed photo of melting ice high above the crowds of protestors on the walk to the Lincoln Memorial.
Students come flooding onto the scene laughing, screaming and holding handmade posters.
Walking alongside their classmates, students are shocked to see the number of protestors already waiting at the Lincoln Memorial.
Students stand tightly packed together, listening to speeches and holding handmade signs.
Student organizers of the event stand together in pink shirts and call out the names of each school in the crowd. Students erupt in cheers when their school is called.
A Jackson-Reed student stands holding a poster on the crammed Metro to Farragut North after students filled every seat.
Students walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial and see the growing protest in front of them. They cheer loudly as they arrive on the scene.
A student carries the D.C. flag as protestors exit the Farragut North Metro Station. During the protest, students chant, “Free D.C.!”
Arriving students rushed to join the photo and pose with their handmade posters in front of the Reflecting Pool. Cheers from the rest of the crowd just outside the frame sounded as they neared the Memorial.
A student holds a handmade sign above crowds of protestors.