A 21-year-old has been left permanently blind in one eye after a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officer shot a nonlethal round into the protester's face during a January 9 protest in Santa Ana, California, following the shooting and killing of Renee Good. This and other instances of federal agents using excessive force with crowd-control munitions raise alarming questions over the DHS officers' training on use-of-force policies.
A video published on X by Abigail Velez, a journalist for local affiliate ABC7, shows the moment when a federal officer struck Kaden Rummler, who was protesting outside of a federal building in a demonstration organized by Dare to Struggle, reports the Los Angeles Times. The video begins as an officer grabs a protester, identified by friends to the Times as Skye Jones, the leader of Dare to Struggle. As Jones resists officers, three other protesters, including Rummler, run up the steps and attempt to intervene. One woman is pushed back by an officer as a second officer fires a nonlethal shot into her leg. That same officer then fires at Rummler's face as he advances, carrying a megaphone.
