The Brief
- A 21-year-old protester says federal officers shot him in the face with a nonlethal weapon at close range during a Santa Ana protest.
- Kaden Rummler, the protester, said the aforementioned run-in with the federal officers left him permanently blind, despite his claim that he was not being violent.
- In a written statement, DHS claims its officers were allegedly attacked by rioters.
SANTA ANA, Calif. – His name is Kaden Rummler, 21 years old. He was with protesters Friday night in Santa Ana when he and a fellow protester were pulled out by federal officers.
Over the phone from the hospital, he says an officer shot a nonlethal weapon point-blank at his face. He will never regain his vision, doctors tell him. He insists he was not being violent and that he was holding a loudspeaker when he was grabbed.
The other protester, who spoke at a press conference today, echoes that. Both refute a Department of Homeland Security statement that was sent to FOX 11.…