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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.’”

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[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 90 points 1 month ago (3 children)

These monsters must pay. I have faith that we will come out the other side of this somehow. And there will be HELL to pay. The GOP fascists who applauded their cult leader's promises of "retribution" have yet to learn the meaning of that word. And they will be educated in spectacular fashion.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sadly history shows that no matter the evil, the average footsoldier does not get what's coming for them.

Look at what happened to the SS agenta. Hell just look at the Nuremberg trials. We've had the chance to eradicate fascism and went easy on them, putting bullshit "international relations" above making sure the scum of humanity with the worst of ideologies is truly gone.

Like, imagine having a beautiful garden. You look away for a moment and bam, it's full of weeds, weeds trying to kill off all the flowers and produce. Do you just pull a few weeds, trim the rest back, and call it a day?

No, you take care of ALL the weeds, and take steps to ensure they don't come back.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And then the dandelions come back anyway.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago

Dandelions are your friend!

They fix hard nutrient poor soil and are entirely edible. There's even some evidence they can help with PMS symptoms when consumed.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago

Not if you do it right.

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who is going to make them pay? Only like 50 democrats even bothered to want to investigate ICE.

What will happen is the same old, now isn’t the time for vengeance but healing and moving forward crap.

[–] extremeboredom@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I feel that the only way to proceed in this world is with the faith that it will be made right. Otherwise what is the point in trying? We should all lay down and give up?

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Nobody said anything about not having faith that things will be made right. They just said not to look to Democrats to do it.

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[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

I'd like to have faith but I'm surrounded pacifists and people who believe voting will fix things.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is what resistance looks like, unfortunately.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago

Lack of resistance looks much worse, it just takes a little longer.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 36 points 1 month ago

Those who make peaceful protest impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 34 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Shot with a gun bought with public money by people paid with your taxes.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

How many americans need to be killed or wounded before congress shuts down this terror organization?

Its absolutely insane that the US president is more compassionate toward iranian protestors than US ones. But I guess the US oil is already secured by US oil companies so who cares about americans when only corporations are people?

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 9 points 1 month ago

this terror organization?

I don't think the police will disappear anytime soon from any police state.

Its absolutely insane that the US president is more compassionate toward iranian protestors than US ones.

It's a leverage they are using to attack iran, they don't give a shit about people.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They’ll do as Israel commands because they are all owned by Israel and the Zionist oligarchs. Democrats and republicans are pro genocide and now it’s our turn. https://www.trackaipac.com/

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[–] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 month ago

Someone doxx the agent please, asking for a friend.

[–] turbulentMagma@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 month ago

Department of Homeland Terrorism

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this the same person that when shot BT the ice Gestapo said you're gonna be blind because he knew and did it on purpose..

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In an email response to The Times, Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary with the Department of Homeland Security, said . . . “This was a highly coordinated campaign of violence where rioters wielded shields.”

Oh the fucking horror. How very dare those protesters cover their bodies against ICE violence.

The kid who got blinded was running to help someone else. Funny how words and acts of humanity and kindness seem to piss them off more than anything else. But that's now a "riot" and that protester is now a "rioter."

This newspeak is right up there with the couchfucker claiming Renee Good belonged to a "broad left-wing network" without so much as a clue of the word rest of us use to describe the same group: a neighborhood. Renee Good belonged to a neighborhood.

Oh the fucking humanity.

[–] axx@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's a classic cop tactic: raise the level of violence, then use the inevitable and justified matching rise in violence and defensive behaviour from protesters to justify more police violence.

French newspaper le Monde Diplomatique had an article some years back about this with a smoking gun type quote, from an unnamed former high ranking French police officer, along the lines of "it is us, the police institutions, that set the level of violence, and we perfectly know it" (the conclusion from this officer was that therefore police should refrain from any unnecessary violence and only use absolutely necessary violence).

[–] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Truth. Say it as often as you can, because there are people commenting here constantly urging others to protest violently. It's the worst thing we could do.

It's the same here in the US, and this is why the regime has picked Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon to begin with: because those two cities had the most violence in 2020-2023 following the killing of George Floyd. But Portland has learned, and kept their protests non-violent, which is what the judge cited as her reason for declaring the presence of the National Guard there illegal in November. It's the very first paragraph, and thereafter she calls the order illegal:

https://www.opb.org/pdf/FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW_1762564569662.pdf

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Shields are a WMD. I heard Saddam had a shield.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Democrats aren’t on our side. They’re Israel first. Nothing is going to improve until we take our government back. They literally have IDF agents working for ICE they’ve just imported their genocide here https://www.newsweek.com/75-democrats-house-antisemitism-resolution-ice-gratitude-2083177

https://www.trackaipac.com/

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If shit gets real then half the the Democrats will denounce us as terrorists while the other half will trip over themselves to join Trump's reprisal firing squads.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 22 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago
[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So when are americans using this amendment they sacrificed all these children for?

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[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At what point do they get sued for attempted murder? Considering how those "less lethal" rounds are designed to be fired at the ground to indirectly bounce at a person, and even then, only at long distances.

In close quarters they are entirely lethal.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The federal government has to allow you to sue them first.

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"One of ours, all of yours" ought to work both ways.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It should not work either way.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It has to, when it comes to fascists. Otherwise if you give them an inch, they'll shoot you three times point blank in the face.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago

And then call you a fucking bitch.

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[–] forkDestroyer 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't see the video because I don't have an x account anymore and it's been marked as sensitive. Is there a mirror? I can't find it on her BlueSky account.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

https://xcancel.com/Mollyploofkins/status/2011266612192842048

Not quite what you were asking for, but it's the video without giving that nazi site traffic.

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I hope that my neighbors the ICE agents are laughing now.

Because it will make it so much better later when they are not.

My only consolation lately is knowing that I don't have to do anything to fascists as they are clearly unhappy, deceived, and creating a future that will eat their children alive. I am childless so whatever.

SO they are making the world that will murder and maim their own kids. Their own kids will in a stupid war made by many many stupid people be killed.

And they all will die. One day either at work or at home or accidentally or on purpose all of these fascist shitbags one day all will be dead and gone; replaced and forgotten; never to be breathed of again.

And even the famous ones will one cack, shit themselves, and a shared breathe of relief from their family as some day soon they will never be spoken of again.

That is the wind under my wings since January 20, 2025. The hopes that their lust for a "survival of fittest" becomes a reality for their cloven-hoofed offspring.

[–] EtherTide@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

The sins of the parent are not the sins of the child. I'm sure you said this because you are hurting unimaginably more than I am (I live several timezones away). However difficut it is, I think it's worth trying our damdest not to be pulled down into fascistic vitriol, thinking children deserve a broken life for only the blood in their veins. I oppose ICE and other similar groups around the world because their actions conflict directly and harshly with my ideals, and I sometimes start to lose sight of those very ideals when I get more and more angry at the news. I'm very glad for the few voices I've heard that remind me to look up and try to rise above my feelings, not in a "turn the other cheek, we can't stop the horrors bc red tape is our #1 priority), but just in a way that reminds of you of why your fighting, so you don't find that you've started fighting yourself.

(sorry for the text block, definitely full of comma splice errors)

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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