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Fed Agent Permanently Blinds, Fractures Skull of Anti-ICE Protester (newrepublic.com)

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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 93 points 3 weeks ago

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 45 points 3 weeks ago

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.

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[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 14 points 3 weeks ago

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 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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 9 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 points 3 weeks ago

Oh I don’t argue for giving up, I argue for holding them accountable yourself instead of relying on a spineless or complicit leadership class.

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[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You and I will. This isn't even a fight if you look at numbers. The most important part is building the initial resistance that is successful enough to bring the rest of the inactive bystanders to join us. Every extra person that is a part of that matters 1000x over right now.

Your state government has abandoned you and the "papers please" will be at your door one day. Better to standup now before that happens.

Everyone is staring at the car crash right now. They are all not reacting and wondering what to do. But when that first person goes to help, everyone else moves too. You just need to realize that you are the person with enough knowledge to know that YOU are that first person. We have to do what's hard. We have to be that first person that runs alone to the car. But, know that many will follow.

[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

I like to believe that too. But I also think because we always seem to compare to WW2. The clear worst people lost.

But, when looking at human history the odds of that type of win are low. Native American genocide, Armenian Genocide, the Nakba, etc.

I will try to use this a motivation to fight and resist. That's it's vital for all of us to resist. When it could be seen as doomerism. Doomerism is a means of making you not act. So, I will not do that. Let's all go get ourselves armed and touch some grass.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 39 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 37 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 weeks ago

Someone doxx the agent please, asking for a friend.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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 10 points 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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/

[-] Woht24@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

If Trump goes full blown dictator, never.

If he dies and a regular election takes place, I guess the end of his term.

But truly, I see the US as sitting on the brink of a rerun of the American Civil war. Instead of England, it's your own people. Rise up or be crushed.

[-] axx@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 weeks ago

Do you see the US Democrats do something as bold as end DHS?

Also, if Trump dies, Vance takes control, which to some degree means Thiel takes control (hello Palantir!) which is arguably a lot worse.

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[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

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 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

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

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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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[-] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago

It's the Imperial Boomerang coming back around

[-] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Holy shit, what an amazing article. Part political history part philosophy. Chef's kiss. 👨‍🍳 😘

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Well, that certainly explains Schumer and Jeffries.

[-] turbulentMagma@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 weeks ago

Department of Homeland Terrorism

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

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..

[-] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yes.

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 23 points 3 weeks 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.

[-] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[-] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago

[-] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 weeks ago

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 3 weeks ago

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

[-] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Is this true? I have no idea how it works so I am genuinely asking. You can’t be serious right?

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nope, I'm serious.

the Supreme Court has repeatedly adopted the position that the United States may not be sued unless it consents.

There are ways around Sovereign Immunity, but it's a major hurdle.

[-] traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Wow that’s fucking gross. I continue to learn about the disgustingness of this country every day and it makes me sick.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sovereign Immunity isn't a US only thing. It's based on English common law and much of Europe has some form of it.

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[-] Chozo@fedia.io 10 points 3 weeks ago

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

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

It should not work either way.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 15 points 3 weeks ago

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 3 weeks ago

And then call you a fucking bitch.

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[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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 3 weeks 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)

[-] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 8 points 2 weeks ago

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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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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[-] dudesss@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-k-for-justice-and-healing

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I’m sure his family will be bankrupted and left homeless from these medical bills

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