Hundreds of students from the Margarita Muñiz Academy on Child Street marched up Centre Street this morning in a local version of the nationwide protests against police brutality, especially against young African-Americans. Marching from to JP to Roxbury’s Dudley Square, the students chanted, “Hands up, don’t shoot” and “We can’t breathe.” They held signs with such slogans as, “#BlackLivesMatter” and “Our lives matter.” The national protests were sparked by recent grand jury decisions that allowed white police officers to avoid trials in the deaths of Eric Garner in New York City and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. School Principal Dania Vázquez told the Gazette that the Muñiz Academy march was wholly student-organized. (Gazette Photo by Rebeca Oliveira)