At least 250 Bellflower students staged a two-hour walkout Friday in protest of the firing of a popular security guard last week, school officials said.
Students complained that Keith Castruita, a security guard at the school since April, 1988, was fired because he is Latino. Castruita, who said he was fired last Thursday because he failed to appear at a basketball game he was supposed to supervise, blamed "racial policies" for his termination.
