00:00Tonight, videos of federal immigration agents working in Lawrence are spreading fast on social media.
00:04Local advocates say five people have been detained, and today, hundreds of residents took to the streets to support them.
00:11KCTV 5's Morgan Rydell is live on Mass Street, where the crowd stretched an entire city block.
00:16Morgan, what did you see out there?
00:19Yeah, well, this year it's South Park, and you couldn't drive down Mass Street without seeing it.
00:26All the way down this block here, hundreds of people lined up, pushing a message out to their neighbors, being
00:32targeted by ICE operations.
00:34While the rally here is over, the messages left behind were lasting.
00:42Haskell Indian Nation's University students organized today's protests.
00:48Meeting on campus first to make signs before gathering here.
00:52And they didn't march alone.
00:54Seeing all these people here really surprised me.
01:00Mary Jane wasn't the only one surprised by the turnout.
01:03I left school to come do this, yeah.
01:08Shasta Kiegel is a Lawrence High School student.
01:10She walked out of class to be here.
01:13My family's scared. I mean, it's bad.
01:15A lot of the kids at my school are scared, and they can't come out here and stand up for
01:18themselves,
01:18so I want to stand up for them, if it's possible.
01:21I already have a few.
01:22KU students Kenny Woodward and Nicholas Black came from just down the street.
01:27For them, it wasn't just about strangers.
01:30This can be affecting people we know, people who are close to us, friends, family.
01:36No ICE!
01:37VETE ICE!
01:38The fear is real.
01:40And I mean, in wake of what happened earlier this week, a lot of people are really fearful, upset about
01:45what happened,
01:45and we want to make our voices heard alongside the rest of our community.
01:48Let's get together and feel all right.
01:53But so is something else.
01:56It's really inspiring, honestly, just to know that not only are we here together to show that we support our
02:01community,
02:01but to know that there's others who can't join us who are coming up to show their support if it's
02:05just a honker wave.
02:06Pride.
02:10And they're not done.
02:12Several of those students I spoke with told me they are planning to participate in a demonstration all across Lawrence
02:18next week.
02:19Reporting live, Morgan Rydell, KC5 News.
