USC student Tucker Collins’s attorney accuses homeland security of ‘overt act of repression’ at Los Angeles protest
A freshman at the University of Southern California has lost an eye after he was shot last month with a “less-lethal” projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent at a No Kings march, according to his attorney.
On 28 March, Tucker Collins, 18, took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles to photograph throngs of protesters, who held signs and chanted slogans denouncing the Trump administration’s policies, his lawyer V James DeSimone said in a statement on Wednesday.
Collins followed behind a group that was headed toward the Metropolitan detention center, the downtown LA facility that has been a focal point for demonstrators in the past months.
In a video from that day shared by DeSimone on social media, Collins is seen holding a camera pointed toward demonstrators outside the federal facility, when suddenly he falls to his knees.
Agent who fired the shot and their boss, and anyone who set this up to happen should lose an eye too then.
I feel like there’s some saying related to this…
Yeah, it goes “an eye for an eye is really cool. You guys should try it sometime.”
We really should. It certainly beats no justice at all. Are there any snappy sayings for having a multi tiered justice system where the rich and cops get to do whatever they want? Weird how there isnt even a saying about that when it seems overwhelmingly common.
Maybe, “You should lay back and enjoy it” comes close enough.