A second protester was blinded after federal officers fired projectiles into a crowd during an anti-ICE rally outside a federal building in Santa Ana, California, according to witness accounts, video footage and statements from those injured, reported by The Los Angeles Times.
Britain Rodriguez, a 31-year-old Orange County resident, said he was standing at the bottom of a staircase with other demonstrators on Jan. 9 when officers positioned above opened fire without warning, striking him in the face.
“I remember hitting the ground and feeling like my eye exploded in my head,” Rodriguez told The LA Times. Video shared with The Times shows him on the ground screaming, “I can’t see, I got shot in the eye,” while holding his face as blood is visible on his hand…