Far-left activists are radicalizing high school students to take on ICE as cops hunt two youngsters who attacked a federal officer, the California Post can reveal.
‘Dare To Struggle SoCal’ is urging children to skip class and “rebel against” agents across major West Coast cities.
It comes a day after an ICE worker was hit by a rock and rushed to hospital when officers faced off against up to 500 teenagers outside Los Angeles Metropolitan Detention Center.
Central District US Attorney Bill Essayli on Saturday released pictures of the two young suspects in the attack and vowed to “criminally prosecute” them.
Dare To Struggle SoCal says its aim is to crush ICE and end mass deportations across the US by radical action in Southern California, the Post has learned.
Masterminds have mobilized across social media, with pamphlets being shared calling for help to “melt ICE” and “smash the mass deportation machine.”
California State Superintendent candidate Sonja Shaw claimed the teacher unions were also involved with the plot and slammed the use of kids as “pawns.”
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A sickening message showed Dare To Struggle SoCal’s social media pages mocking the injury to a law enforcement officer, who was seen with blood running down the side of his head, calling it a “little scratch.”
In one image the group shared, a cop brandished a Taser, with the caption: “This was one of the pigs who threatened students with Tasers at the federal building today. F*** DHS!”
Ahead of Friday’s protests, one flyer with the Dare To Struggle logo on advertised the “national school walk out”, adding: “It is right to rebel against ICE.”
It named six schools across the Downtown area that it said were taking part in the protests, telling students to meet at the “Federal Building by 2pm.”
After the demonstration, another pamphlet the group released read: “Across LA County over 500 students from 24+ schools walked out, defying hostile administrators, with about 10 schools around Downtown shutting down traffic and demanding freedom for the kidnapped an stop the deportations.
“After moving speeches from the students, the crowd bravely confronted a handful of DHS agents outside the Metropolitan Detention Center.”
It added: “The full day protest ended with celebration and dancing in front of MDC’s blocked entrance.” Another chilling social media post shared by the group read in part: “BTW this will not be the last.”
Dare To Struggle SoCal, which is an offshoot of a national organization with tentacles across the country, even released a Venmo account begging for donations for those who had their cars towed.
Its mission statement online reads in part: “We’re committed to standing with the people subjected to the horrors of the American nightmare.
“We go to the neighborhoods facing police brutality, ICE raids, poverty, and evictions, talk to people about the problems they face, and organize people in collective struggle.”
Children are allowed to take one day off per year to take part in “civic or political events” in California, but they have to seek their school’s permission first.
Central District US Attorney Essayli on Saturday shared pictures of the youngsters accused of tossing the rocks that injured the ICE officer on Friday. It is unclear if they are directly related to Dare To Struggle.
He wrote: “These assaults will do nothing to stop our immigration enforcement operations. The only thing they will accomplish is ensuring violent agitators will be criminally prosecuted, juveniles included.”
California State Superintendent candidate Shaw tore into the demonstrations and suggested the children were being used as “pawns” by adult organizers.
She told the Post: “We had some kids walking out and even junior highers, so we closed the gates but some got out in other ways.
“We called parents and said kids are going to be truant and a lot were not even aware.” On Dare To Struggle, she said: “I haven’t heard of them, but the teachers union is also involved.”
She continued: “Half our kids can’t read, write and do math, let the adults handle the protests. It hurts my heart that these parents don’t even know what’s going on. It’s not peaceful its dangerous.
“We teach kids in schools about their constitutional rights, but this is not peaceful or friendly. The lawlessness that is being created by adults, unfortunately the kids are being used as pawns.”
She added: “It’s unfortunate to see adults allow this to happen. Why are the kids the ones on the frontlines.”
California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton also slammed “far left activists taking over teachers’ unions” for the protests.
He said: “I’m hearing about this more and more from parents — they send their kids to school to get educated and they come back indoctrinated.
“This is what you get when far left activists take over the teacher unions, and teacher unions take over the schools.
“They’re putting kids in harm’s way by sending them into potentially violent confrontations, but perhaps even worse is the long term harm they’re doing by denying kids a proper education.
“No wonder we have some of the worst math and reading scores in the entire country despite spending nearly the most. We’ve got to get the politics out of our schools and education back in.”
A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said: “Two Federal Protective Services officers were injured, one in the hospital with concussion and the other with a cut over his eye.
“The rioters remain at large. Assaulting federal law enforcement is a felony and a federal crime. Secretary Noem has been clear: anyone who assaults or obstructs law enforcement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Law and order will prevail.”
Dare To Struggle SoCal said in a statement to the Post: “1500+ students from 59 schools across the country walked out on February 13th, and have been doing so in the past weeks.
“We stand firmly with the brave young people in this country who took a stance against ICE’s inhumane kidnapping and murders of immigrants and protesters.