El Monte police officers in riot gear push demonstrating students from Monrovia and Duarte High Schools back north along Peck Road after the students entered the city on their way to meet up with students from El Monte High Schools. Girl in foregroud is suffering from the efects of tear gas.
A student photographs, fellow students who climbed on a replica of the Statue of Liberty, referred to as "Lady Liberty", in front of El Monte City Hall. Lady Liberty was donated by a dentist in 1990's, an immigrant who paid $50,000 to have the statue built, and then he donated it to the city of El Monte, before he was so grateful to live and work in the United States Students from El Monte High, Mountain View High, Kranz Intermediate, walked out of class in protest to denounce a federal legislative proposal that would criminalize illegal immigration and require building a 700-mile wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
El Monte police officers escort two students across the Ramona Boulevard bridge over the San Gabriel River on the border with Baldwin Park.
Baldwin Park Motor officer Vince Greva keeps an eye on students arrested for truancy and unlawful assembly on Ramona Blvd. at the I-605. 20 or more students were arrested out of a group of approximately 250 students.