Dear God. I wonder if this man will also be characterized as a domestic terrorist by ICE, who has egregiously crippled the man for life, for the *crime* of helping another protestor. He was shot in the face by ICE and would have died but for the intervention of six hours of surgery. This is vicious, no other word for it. ICE is a bunch of animals in the street with firearms and other “non-lethal” weapons, like the one used to egregiously injure this young man. The New Republic:
A 21-year old anti-ICE protester has been left permanently blinded in California after a Department of Homeland Security agent shot him in the face with a nonlethal round at point-blank range on Friday.
Kaden Rummler can be seen on video rushing to help a fellow protester at Civic Center Plaza in Santa Ana before being shot by a federal agent. He crumples to the ground in a heap, covering his face before an officer drags him away by his hoodie. Rummler’s aunt said he was left with a fractured skull and shards of plastic, glass, and metal stuck all throughout his eyes and face, and would have died if not for the six hours of surgery he went through.
“That could have cost him his life,” Jeri Rees told the Los Angeles Times. “But now, for the next six weeks, he can’t sneeze or cough because it could do a lot of damage.… The other officers were mocking him, saying, ‘You’re going to lose your eye.’”
This is one of countless instances of excessive, brutal force being used against U.S. residents in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Rummler’s blinding happened just two days after ICE shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin described the scene as “a highly coordinated campaign of violence where rioters wielded shields,” but had no comment on the use of excessive force from her agents. A spokesperson from the Santa Ana Police Department said the only coordinated violence they saw were demonstrators throwing orange cones.
Yeah, those orange cones pack a wallop. Don’t want to be hit by one of those, they weigh about 12 ounces. This story is alarming, depressing, and tragic. And it’s made ugly by the fact that the officers mocked the young man about losing an eye. I wonder if they think it’s comical that he’s lost both of them?
Remember when tRump said he was outraged that Bashir Assad used chemical weapons on his own people? I guess it doesn’t bother him if the people are left wing extremist deranged lunatics.
Don’t forget Drumpf’s “promise” to help *Iranian* protestors and his threats against Iran’s leader if *they* tried to stop the protests.
And I think you meant to add “claimed to be” between “are” and “left-wing.”
I wonder how many millions he’ll get in the inevitable suit against the agents who did it, and how poor their defense in such suing will be after they’re convicted of assault and excessive use of force?
All ICE thugs know they’ll get a full Trump pardon before the orange scumbag leaves office. There will be little, if any, accountability for ay of them, no matter what they do.