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Uwa Ede-Osifo

LA teen loses eye after being shot by US agent at No Kings march, lawyer says

Police fire tear gas at protesters
Police fire teargas into the street outside the Metropolitan detention center in Los Angeles during the No Kings protest in March. Photograph: MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News/Getty

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.

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