Kaden Rummler will never see out of his left eye again. The 21-year-old activist was shot in the face by a Department of Homeland Security agent during an anti-ICE protest in Santa Ana, California on 9 January. What happened that night has left him with catastrophic injuries—metal, plastic and glass shards embedded in his skull, a fractured face, and permanent blindness in one eye.
Rummler had joined demonstrators outside the federal building to protest deportations and demand justice for Renee Good, who was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis just days before. Video shows him trying to help another protester when federal officers moved in to make arrests. That's when an agent fired a less-lethal projectile directly at his face from close range. The impact was immediate and brutal. Rummler collapsed, his hands covering his bloodied face. An officer then dragged him across the ground by his hoodie as other protesters screamed for help.
