Throughout last week, the Providence Student Union promoted a "student-led" anti-ICE walkout from the city's public schools.
"STUDENTS OF PPSD: WALK OUT FOR JUSTICE," began a Monday Alex Pretti, anti-ICE agitators who died at the hands of law enforcement.
The Providence Student Union is officially unaffiliated with the school district, and operates as a donor-funded nonprofit organization. On 2025 ICE agent while shadowing federal law enforcement in her vehicle. Upon a confrontation with law enforcement, she drove her car forward. The agent, standing in front of her vehicle, opened fire.
Pretti, who had disrupted law enforcement on at least one other occasion before his death, tussled with Border Patrol agents before he was shot dead last Saturday. He was armed with a handgun at the time.
A spokesperson for the Providence Public School District reiterated that it is unaffiliated with the Providence Student Union, and that the event was not sponsored or chaperoned by district employees.
"We are not aware of staff members participating in the event," the spokesperson said. "A PPSD staff member would have had to take personal or vacation time if they had wanted to participate as it was not a school chaperoned event."
The Providence Student Union did not return a request for comment.