Community members and rights groups criticize police arriving at Cincinnati schools on behalf of ICE
Cincinnati’s Price Hill is a bastion of Latino life. On Warsaw Avenue, the neighborhood’s main drag, Guatemalan flags and taco trucks are dotted around street corners and parking lots.
In the streets around the Roberts Academy elementary school, students flood out of school on a recent Thursday afternoon. Nearby, four boys kick a soccer ball around a tiny garden.
It was at this school, where nearly three-fourths of the student body is Latino, and two other nearby schools that on 15 April, Tonina Lamanna, a 17-year-veteran police officer in Gratis, Ohio, and a police department colleague whose jurisdiction lies 50 miles away, attempted to question school administrators about children attending the facilities on behalf of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) so-called “wellness checks”.
The law enforcement officers were not received well.
