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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      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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        Yea and even if we get a deescalation of some kind the police state agency and infrastructure is in place and the democrats will not remove the noose from our necks they’ll leave it in place just like they did with Guantanamo and the patriot act

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    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.

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    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…

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    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?

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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