Cop Tackles Unruly Teen Outisde High School During A California Anti-ICE Protest, Carries Him Off Like A Piece Of Old Luggage

New footage from California is being pushed online as “police brutality,” but a closer look shows something very different: law enforcement stepping in after school officials allowed classrooms to turn into political protest zones.

Video from February 10, 2026, shows a police officer removing a backpack-wearing juvenile from an anti-ICE demonstration at Selma High School in California’s Central Valley. The student had joined a walkout during school hours as part of a coordinated protest against federal immigration enforcement.

As students crowded the campus holding signs and chanting, officers were called in to restore order. One officer is seen physically lifting and carrying the juvenile away from the scene, a move critics online have dramatized but supporters say was necessary to prevent further disruption and escalation.

The incident comes amid a surge of student-led walkouts across California high schools since early February, with similar protests reported in San Marcos, Santa Barbara, and schools throughout the Fresno area. In many cases, administrators reportedly allowed students to leave class en masse, effectively endorsing political demonstrations during instructional time.

That decision is now drawing serious criticism.

Parents and law enforcement advocates argue schools are abandoning their responsibility to educate and maintain discipline by permitting walkouts tied to highly charged political issues. Once protests spill out of classrooms and into public demonstrations, police are left to clean up the mess.