Hundreds of students walked out of classes at a Florida high school on Tuesday morning and were marching nearly 11 miles to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where a mass shooting left 17 students and staff members dead last week. Deputies with the Broward County Sheriff’s office then met them at the county line as they continued to walk toward Stoneman Douglas high, which remains close following the shooting. The walkout and march echoed similar protests that students across Florida have staged in the days following the Feb. 14 shooting. “We don’t deserve this,” 17-year-old Ianna Seemungal, who participated in a walkout at South Broward High School on Friday, told HuffPost. There have been 17 school shootings in the U.S. already in 2018, less than two months into the year.

Source: Huffington Post February 20, 2018 19:41 UTC