ICE Protest
WALK 1: MAPPING SENSES: As I walked through the streets of downtown Los Angeles on a cloudy day, I am saddened by what I see, hear, and smell. The experience was like nothing I had experienced before. While I’ve seen other protests on television or on the internet, I have never been so close to it. The streets were filled with people protesting the ICE raids that have been going on in Los Angeles, California for the past three days. The protestors are expressing their anger, hurt, sadness, and frustration with the ICE raids and what they believe is unfair and inhumane treatment of human beings. The vision of what was happening was clear, but I allowed my other senses to take over to experience the environment in a different way. I became aware of the sounds I heard. It was very loud. I could hear the police sirens. They were on every street that I turned on. I could hear the protestors screaming and yelling and the police officers yelling back at them. Police were making public ...