Four days after a 21-year-old anti-ICE protester was permanently blinded by a pepper ball munition, the nation’s deportation agency spent nearly $100,000 on more of the “non-lethal” rounds, according to federal procurement records reviewed by The Independent.
On January 9, Kaden Rummler was struck in the left eye with a projectile fired from a few feet away by a federal agent while the college student demonstrated outside a federal building in Orange County, California. Rummler, whose skull was also fractured in the close-range shooting, will never see out of that eye again, according to a GoFundMe page set up to help with medical expenses.
