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.’”
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
It’s the Imperial Boomerang coming back around
Holy shit, what an amazing article. Part political history part philosophy. Chef’s kiss. 👨🍳 😘
I’m sure his family will be bankrupted and left homeless from these medical bills
So when are americans using this amendment they sacrificed all these children for?
If this is NOT another reason to study and read theory, I don’t know what is.
Well I know these dumb fucks speak the language, so they’ll understand exactly what’s up when they start ending up in the same predicaments
I really hope that protester’s poor family fights back.
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…
Yes.
Shot with a gun bought with public money by people paid with your taxes.
He wasn’t shot. I saw the video, the kid ran towards an ICE agent with a megaphone (seemingly to help a friend who was also caught by ICE), the latter smacking him violently in the face then dragged ruthelessly on the asphalt.
It just looks like kids trying to make a change by protesting, but not fully grasping the consequences of their actions. ICE are a form of law enforcement and obstructing their role does not seem to be tolerated. Hurling at an officer (or any person) with a megaphone is extremely annoying. At the end of the day, half the country voted for the party that ran on the migration issue, and they are working seemingly hard to deliver on those promises, wether we agree with premise or not.
They have the right to protest, but this administration is not tolerating any descent to rioting, and seriously seems to be heading towards borderline totalitarian ruling now that trump is fancying his king title, and contemplating cancelling the mid-term.
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?
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/
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.
The civil war was states vs states and the conflict point was slavery, with Kansas entering the union as a free state. MAGA is driven by a global media aparatus funded by extreme wealth. I think as soon as the power goes out the whole thing falls apart.
I wouldn’t expect a civil war to occur until a federal wealth tax hits or a straight up coup occurs. I think democrats could kick the whole thing down the road a decade by adding puerto rico and DC as US states which can be done with just 51 votes in the senate.
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.
How many americans need to be killed or wounded before congress shuts down this terror organization?
I think that question basically doesn’t have an answer, since Trump’s supporters don’t live in the same reality. Within their bubble, that agent is a hero and Good was a terrorist or whatever. They don’t know that previous administrations have managed to enforce immigration law without essentially declaring martial law, and they don’t know that ICE agents are being hired with literally no getting. If they found out, they are well-trained to not care .
If you want to know when this will even begin to stop, well, the stock market is doing just fine. While that is the case, Trump can do whatever he wants.
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.
Department of Homeland Terrorism
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.
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 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).
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
Shields are a WMD. I heard Saddam had a shield.
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.
The federal government has to allow you to sue them first.
Is this true? I have no idea how it works so I am genuinely asking. You can’t be serious right?
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.
Wow that’s fucking gross. I continue to learn about the disgustingness of this country every day and it makes me sick.
Wild that the sitting president can call you a domestic terrorist off rip
Someone doxx the agent please, asking for a friend.
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.
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.
That I why I figure that if there is a civil war, I will shoot to kill and double tap fallen MAGA during battle, unless they offer surrender. Nuremberg only executed 210ish Nazis, despite the rank and file being the hands of evil.
This sucks. 😩
And then the dandelions come back anyway.
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.
Not if you do it right.
I hope you are not using herbicides.
I’d like to have faith but I’m surrounded pacifists and people who believe voting will fix things.
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.
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?
Nobody said anything about not having faith that things will be made right. They just said not to look to Democrats to do it.
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.
There is faith in an actual project of doing something concrete, and then there is faith in it “somehow” going to be ok.
One is constructive, the other is just sticking your head in the sand and helping the fascists.
Desperation and anger is needed to topple fascists. Complacency created by a belief in heavenly intervention is not.
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.
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.
