Two protesters have been blinded by so-called “less-lethal” munitions deployed by federal officers during an anti-ICE protest last week in Santa Ana, California, according to reports.
The blindings come amid rising scrutiny of federal authorities’ use-of-force policies, after the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer set off nationwide protests.Widely seen video recorded at the Santa Ana protest showed a homeland security agent shoot Kaden Rummler, 21, in the face with a less-lethal munition at a distance of only a few feet. Doctors found glass shards and plastic fragments in his skull and a fragment of metal lodged just shy of his carotid artery.
Video also showed the federal officer drag Rummler several yards across the pavement and into a federal building after shooting him. The shooting left him blind in his left eye.
“I can’t sneeze or cough because it’s dangerous,” Rummler told KTLA. “They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye.”
“They said it was a miracle I survived,” he added.
Rummler is 5ft 1in tall and weighs 102lbs, he said.
A second person, 31-year-old Britain Rodriguez, described taking a similar close-range shot to the face with a less-lethal round at the same protest, saying it felt like his “eye exploded in my head”, in an interview with the Los Angeles Times published on Friday.
This is what riot cops did in the ‘60s - early ‘70s..shoot ‘knee-knocker wooden rounds at kids’ heads. Deliberate attempt to kill.
Overthrow Trump! RESIST!
Disgraceful! Obvious attempts to terrifying protesters into stopping
Reports also suggest Good was still alive in her car when ICE agents prohibited a doctor from checking on her condition, and said they had their own medical team there, which they did not.
Tim Walz just announced activation of the Minnesota National Guard to protect his citizens from ICE.
He and the mayor of Minneapolis are both under retaliatory investigation by the Felon Trump Department of Justice for alleged interference with ICE by urging citizens to remain peaceful and not take the Trump ICE bait. You can look away from a painting, but you can't listen away from a symphony
facing ANY charges, just like all the rest. So they all feel free to do whatever they want to anyone, including the White women usually excluded from GOP style violence.
How many non-whites have they done the same or similar to without huge uproars? That we don't know about?
on January 17, 2026, 1:09 pm
