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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Teen whose eye was surgically removed after DHS shot him files civil rights complaint: ‘I’m in no way an agitator. I just had my camera’

An 18-year-old college student was filming protests outside an immigration detention center in Los Angeles last month when an officer fired a projectile into his face, destroying his right eye and fracturing the bones in the socket.

Tucker Collins, whose damaged eye had to be surgically removed, has filed a federal civil rights complaint against Donald Trump’s administration, which faces an avalanche of lawsuits accusing federal agents of unconstitutional use of force after violent clashes with demonstrators across the country.

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