A 21-year old anti-ICE protester has been left permanently blinded in California after a Department of Homeland Security agent shot him in the face with a nonlethal round at point-blank range on Friday.
Kaden Rummler can be seen on video rushing to help a fellow protester at Civic Center Plaza in Santa Ana before being shot by a federal agent. He crumples to the ground in a heap, covering his face before an officer drags him away by his hoodie. Rummler’s aunt said he was left with a fractured skull and shards of plastic, glass, and metal stuck all throughout his eyes and face, and would have died if not for the six hours of surgery he went through.
“That could have cost him his life,” Jeri Rees told the Los Angeles Times. “But now, for the next six weeks, he can’t sneeze or cough because it could do a lot of damage.… The other officers were mocking him, saying, ‘You’re going to lose your eye.’”
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extremeboredom@lemmy.world · 94 pts · 230d
These monsters must pay. I have faith that we will come out the other side of this somehow. And there will be HELL to pay. The GOP fascists who applauded their cult leader's promises of "retribution" have yet to learn the meaning of that word. And they will be educated in spectacular fashion.
fonix232@fedia.io · 47 pts · 230d
Sadly history shows that no matter the evil, the average footsoldier does not get what's coming for them.
Look at what happened to the SS agenta. Hell just look at the Nuremberg trials. We've had the chance to eradicate fascism and went easy on them, putting bullshit "international relations" above making sure the scum of humanity with the worst of ideologies is truly gone.
Like, imagine having a beautiful garden. You look away for a moment and bam, it's full of weeds, weeds trying to kill off all the flowers and produce. Do you just pull a few weeds, trim the rest back, and call it a day?
No, you take care of ALL the weeds, and take steps to ensure they don't come back.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 5 pts · 230d
And then the dandelions come back anyway.
Zombie@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 229d
Dandelions are your friend!
They fix hard nutrient poor soil and are entirely edible. There's even some evidence they can help with PMS symptoms when consumed.
fonix232@fedia.io · 6 pts · 230d
Not if you do it right.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 229d
That I why I figure that if there is a civil war, I will shoot to kill and double tap fallen MAGA during battle, unless they offer surrender. Nuremberg only executed 210ish Nazis, despite the rank and file being the hands of evil.
This sucks. 😩
hector@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 230d
I hope you are not using herbicides.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 14 pts · 230d
extremeboredom@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 230d
I feel that the only way to proceed in this world is with the faith that it will be made right. Otherwise what is the point in trying? We should all lay down and give up?
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 230d
Nobody said anything about not having faith that things will be made right. They just said not to look to Democrats to do it.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 6 pts · 230d
Rothe@piefed.social · 1 pts · 230d
There is faith in an actual project of doing something concrete, and then there is faith in it "somehow" going to be ok.
One is constructive, the other is just sticking your head in the sand and helping the fascists.
Desperation and anger is needed to topple fascists. Complacency created by a belief in heavenly intervention is not.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 230d
You and I will. This isn't even a fight if you look at numbers. The most important part is building the initial resistance that is successful enough to bring the rest of the inactive bystanders to join us. Every extra person that is a part of that matters 1000x over right now.
Your state government has abandoned you and the "papers please" will be at your door one day. Better to standup now before that happens.
Everyone is staring at the car crash right now. They are all not reacting and wondering what to do. But when that first person goes to help, everyone else moves too. You just need to realize that you are the person with enough knowledge to know that YOU are that first person. We have to do what's hard. We have to be that first person that runs alone to the car. But, know that many will follow.
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 230d
I'd like to have faith but I'm surrounded pacifists and people who believe voting will fix things.
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 230d
I like to believe that too. But I also think because we always seem to compare to WW2. The clear worst people lost.
But, when looking at human history the odds of that type of win are low. Native American genocide, Armenian Genocide, the Nakba, etc.
I will try to use this a motivation to fight and resist. That's it's vital for all of us to resist. When it could be seen as doomerism. Doomerism is a means of making you not act. So, I will not do that. Let's all go get ourselves armed and touch some grass.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 43 pts · 230d
This is what resistance looks like, unfortunately.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca · 23 pts · 230d
Lack of resistance looks much worse, it just takes a little longer.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 39 pts · 229d
Shot with a gun bought with public money by people paid with your taxes.
mal3oon@lemmy.world · -17 pts · 229d
He wasn't shot. I saw the video, the kid ran towards an ICE agent with a megaphone (seemingly to help a friend who was also caught by ICE), the latter smacking him violently in the face then dragged ruthelessly on the asphalt.
It just looks like kids trying to make a change by protesting, but not fully grasping the consequences of their actions. ICE are a form of law enforcement and obstructing their role does not seem to be tolerated. Hurling at an officer (or any person) with a megaphone is extremely annoying. At the end of the day, half the country voted for the party that ran on the migration issue, and they are working seemingly hard to deliver on those promises, wether we agree with premise or not.
They have the right to protest, but this administration is not tolerating any descent to rioting, and seriously seems to be heading towards borderline totalitarian ruling now that trump is fancying his king title, and contemplating cancelling the mid-term.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 228d
You can clearly see him being shot in the video and the article you didn't read said he was shot.
What are you doing to make a change? Are you fine with a pedophile being the president of the country and with public money being used to support the murder of kids in gaza?
This kid is fully aware of the consequences of his action, he fully understand that if nobody does something against these cowards and villains the consequences will be much worst for everyone.
mal3oon@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 228d
You're right, I thought the officer smacked him in the face, but it was the other ICE agent behind that seem to have shot him with a non-lethal ammo.
But to be clear my views don't align with that of trump, also I am not american. No one can deny the corruption in this administration and the cope for hiding the Epstein case. Republicans don't seem to care unless it's happening in a pizzaria basement.
But I agree with the right on the issue of illegal migration. So I don't think ICE is overstepping here. If people are staying illegally, either change the laws around that or vote for people who won't enforce the laws on this (like the previous administrations). Having schrodinger laws is the worse of both cases.
As far as I see regarding gaza, he played a good role stopping what israel was doing. At least friends from the region were happy for the cease fire to be in place. You guys are too perfectionist hoping for a fair solution in the real world, which doesn't happen often.
And for issues I care about, I vote for the candidate that align with my views and make sure to sign petitions, EU citizens can enact decent amount of change. Not sure how it is in the US, but you have to accept, half your country support the other side.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 228d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Israel_in_the_Gaza_war
Former and current US government administration supported the genocide and made it possible in the first place, in case you missed it trump (who's plans are to turn gaza into a resort) was chilling at mara lago with netanyahu at new year.
mal3oon@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 228d
Again, I think you are missing the point. Palestinians don't care about the long term future (at least on earth they do care about their paradise though), they wanted it to stop. Like yes you're sitting on your couch and rooting against the bad guy, you're not the one moving between camps, scraping for food or hoping your kid doesn't get blown up today.
Yes, Trump is corrupt, so is nearly every politician in their lives. It's how most people in the arab world view their rulers. For them, Trump stopped the bombing.
This is what pisses me off about leftists views in life, it's so unrealistic. Also, I am not a fan of trump, the guy is a putin but much more retarded, at least the democratic guardrails are holding him down (for now). He just made a good move with stopping the whole war there especially compared to biden, and for that I would give him credit. I personally know people living there that celebrated the cease fire.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 228d
You do not understand, israel is perpetrating a genocide with the help of US and other states. Israel is bombing gaza and other countries with US assist and weapons. People in gaza aren't just being bombed, they are being shot at and starved to death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 228d
ICE is breaking laws, not enforcing them. They exist now as a paramilitary secret police for Trump to use against his political enemies.
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 228d
Get the fuck out of here Nazi lover. Pathetic ass attempt at concern trolling.
mal3oon@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 228d
You sure got me on your side with that mind bending argument. People like you got that orange retard in office, by alienating the centrist to vote for the other side.
IAmATotalPOS2@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 228d
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 39 pts · 228d
Those who make peaceful protest impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 229d
How many americans need to be killed or wounded before congress shuts down this terror organization?
Its absolutely insane that the US president is more compassionate toward iranian protestors than US ones. But I guess the US oil is already secured by US oil companies so who cares about americans when only corporations are people?
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 229d
I don't think the police will disappear anytime soon from any police state.
It's a leverage they are using to attack iran, they don't give a shit about people.
Woht24@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 229d
axx@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 229d
Do you see the US Democrats do something as bold as end DHS?
Also, if Trump dies, Vance takes control, which to some degree means Thiel takes control (hello Palantir!) which is arguably a lot worse.
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 229d
The civil war was states vs states and the conflict point was slavery, with Kansas entering the union as a free state. MAGA is driven by a global media aparatus funded by extreme wealth. I think as soon as the power goes out the whole thing falls apart.
I wouldn't expect a civil war to occur until a federal wealth tax hits or a straight up coup occurs. I think democrats could kick the whole thing down the road a decade by adding puerto rico and DC as US states which can be done with just 51 votes in the senate.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 229d
They’ll do as Israel commands because they are all owned by Israel and the Zionist oligarchs. Democrats and republicans are pro genocide and now it’s our turn. https://www.trackaipac.com/
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 229d
I think that question basically doesn't have an answer, since Trump's supporters don't live in the same reality. Within their bubble, that agent is a hero and Good was a terrorist or whatever. They don't know that previous administrations have managed to enforce immigration law without essentially declaring martial law, and they don't know that ICE agents are being hired with literally no getting. If they found out, they are well-trained to not care .
If you want to know when this will even begin to stop, well, the stock market is doing just fine. While that is the case, Trump can do whatever he wants.
AlecSadler@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 29 pts · 230d
Someone doxx the agent please, asking for a friend.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 229d
Oh the fucking horror. How very dare those protesters cover their bodies against ICE violence.
The kid who got blinded was running to help someone else. Funny how words and acts of humanity and kindness seem to piss them off more than anything else. But that's now a "riot" and that protester is now a "rioter."
This newspeak is right up there with the couchfucker claiming Renee Good belonged to a "broad left-wing network" without so much as a clue of the word rest of us use to describe the same group: a neighborhood. Renee Good belonged to a neighborhood.
Oh the fucking humanity.
axx@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 229d
It's a classic cop tactic: raise the level of violence, then use the inevitable and justified matching rise in violence and defensive behaviour from protesters to justify more police violence.
French newspaper le Monde Diplomatique had an article some years back about this with a smoking gun type quote, from an unnamed former high ranking French police officer, along the lines of "it is us, the police institutions, that set the level of violence, and we perfectly know it" (the conclusion from this officer was that therefore police should refrain from any unnecessary violence and only use absolutely necessary violence).
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 229d
Truth. Say it as often as you can, because there are people commenting here constantly urging others to protest violently. It's the worst thing we could do.
It's the same here in the US, and this is why the regime has picked Minneapolis and Portland, Oregon to begin with: because those two cities had the most violence in 2020-2023 following the killing of George Floyd. But Portland has learned, and kept their protests non-violent, which is what the judge cited as her reason for declaring the presence of the National Guard there illegal in November. It's the very first paragraph, and thereafter she calls the order illegal:
https://www.opb.org/pdf/FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW_1762564569662.pdf
Fedizen@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 229d
Shields are a WMD. I heard Saddam had a shield.
turbulentMagma@lemmy.zip · 26 pts · 229d
Department of Homeland Terrorism
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 229d
Democrats aren’t on our side. They’re Israel first. Nothing is going to improve until we take our government back. They literally have IDF agents working for ICE they’ve just imported their genocide here https://www.newsweek.com/75-democrats-house-antisemitism-resolution-ice-gratitude-2083177
https://www.trackaipac.com/
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 228d
If shit gets real then half the the Democrats will denounce us as terrorists while the other half will trip over themselves to join Trump's reprisal firing squads.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 228d
Yea and even if we get a deescalation of some kind the police state agency and infrastructure is in place and the democrats will not remove the noose from our necks they’ll leave it in place just like they did with Guantanamo and the patriot act
SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 229d
It's the Imperial Boomerang coming back around
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 229d
Holy shit, what an amazing article. Part political history part philosophy. Chef's kiss. 👨🍳 😘
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 228d
Well, that certainly explains Schumer and Jeffries.
UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 229d
Is this the same person that when shot BT the ice Gestapo said you're gonna be blind because he knew and did it on purpose..
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 229d
Yes.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 23 pts · 230d
Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 229d
Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 229d
So when are americans using this amendment they sacrificed all these children for?
Aljernon@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 228d
They actually sacrificed the children to maintain capitalism. Guns were always an excuse.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 228d
The people who were sacrificing children for guns became ice agents and the people who had their children sacrificed are getting shot by them.
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 229d
At what point do they get sued for attempted murder? Considering how those "less lethal" rounds are designed to be fired at the ground to indirectly bounce at a person, and even then, only at long distances.
In close quarters they are entirely lethal.
village604@adultswim.fan · 7 pts · 229d
The federal government has to allow you to sue them first.
traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 229d
Is this true? I have no idea how it works so I am genuinely asking. You can’t be serious right?
village604@adultswim.fan · 7 pts · 229d
Nope, I'm serious.
There are ways around Sovereign Immunity, but it's a major hurdle.
traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 229d
Wow that’s fucking gross. I continue to learn about the disgustingness of this country every day and it makes me sick.
village604@adultswim.fan · 4 pts · 228d
Sovereign Immunity isn't a US only thing. It's based on English common law and much of Europe has some form of it.
NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 229d
Wild that the sitting president can call you a domestic terrorist off rip
Chozo@fedia.io · 10 pts · 230d
"One of ours, all of yours" ought to work both ways.
snooggums@piefed.world · 18 pts · 230d
It should not work either way.
Chozo@fedia.io · 15 pts · 230d
It has to, when it comes to fascists. Otherwise if you give them an inch, they'll shoot you three times point blank in the face.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 230d
And then call you a fucking bitch.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 229d
We've seen what Happens when you let civility and politeness take priority over accountability, and it sucks. It's provably bad morals
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 230d
I hope that my neighbors the ICE agents are laughing now.
Because it will make it so much better later when they are not.
My only consolation lately is knowing that I don't have to do anything to fascists as they are clearly unhappy, deceived, and creating a future that will eat their children alive. I am childless so whatever.
SO they are making the world that will murder and maim their own kids. Their own kids will in a stupid war made by many many stupid people be killed.
And they all will die. One day either at work or at home or accidentally or on purpose all of these fascist shitbags one day all will be dead and gone; replaced and forgotten; never to be breathed of again.
And even the famous ones will one cack, shit themselves, and a shared breathe of relief from their family as some day soon they will never be spoken of again.
That is the wind under my wings since January 20, 2025. The hopes that their lust for a "survival of fittest" becomes a reality for their cloven-hoofed offspring.
EtherTide@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 230d
The sins of the parent are not the sins of the child. I'm sure you said this because you are hurting unimaginably more than I am (I live several timezones away). However difficut it is, I think it's worth trying our damdest not to be pulled down into fascistic vitriol, thinking children deserve a broken life for only the blood in their veins. I oppose ICE and other similar groups around the world because their actions conflict directly and harshly with my ideals, and I sometimes start to lose sight of those very ideals when I get more and more angry at the news. I'm very glad for the few voices I've heard that remind me to look up and try to rise above my feelings, not in a "turn the other cheek, we can't stop the horrors bc red tape is our #1 priority), but just in a way that reminds of you of why your fighting, so you don't find that you've started fighting yourself.
(sorry for the text block, definitely full of comma splice errors)
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 228d
I can't see the video because I don't have an x account anymore and it's been marked as sensitive. Is there a mirror? I can't find it on her BlueSky account.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 228d
https://xcancel.com/Mollyploofkins/status/2011266612192842048
Not quite what you were asking for, but it's the video without giving that nazi site traffic.
Starstarz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 228d
Got a 502 Bag Gateway notice :(
dudesss@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 228d
https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-k-for-justice-and-healing
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 229d
I’m sure his family will be bankrupted and left homeless from these medical bills
whitecollarcry@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 229d
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 228d
Then we have losers like Walz begging for people to stay non-violent while he grovels to Trump. Motherfucker the violence has already begun and it wasn't the protestors who started it.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 229d
If this is NOT another reason to study and read theory, I don't know what is.
DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 229d
I really hope that protester's poor family fights back.
ineedmorecoffee@lemmy.cafe · -46 pts · 230d
Just to let you know, nothing is gonna happen to that ice officer as long as he lives. So, enjoy your peaceful protest.
mriormro@lemmy.zip · 44 pts · 230d
Shut your bitch ass up. Barely just created an account and you're already bragging about your cowardice.
Take productive action or shut the fuck up and go hide in your hole.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 20 pts · 230d
Damn, call the Coast Guard. Dudes entire forrest just got burned
ineedmorecoffee@lemmy.cafe · -27 pts · 230d
So much hot forest. So much tears.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 16 pts · 230d
You don't need to cry about it. It's not that serious.
brachiosaurus@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 229d
He's speaking the truth, nothing will be done to that police officer as long as he lives.
Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org · 0 pts · 230d
Productive action for which side?
ineedmorecoffee@lemmy.cafe · -11 pts · 230d
mriormro@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 230d
Sounds like bitch talk. Get to steppin.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 230d
nothing will happen to him legally, as soon as he is doxed he will live the rest of his life in fear. and hopefully, it'll be a short while
Chozo@fedia.io · 7 pts · 230d
I think I identified the problem.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol · 5 pts · 230d
Which ICE division do you work for? ;)
ineedmorecoffee@lemmy.cafe · -17 pts · 230d
Well that makes no sense because I’m speaking against them. But you seem to be siding with the insurance companies
ineedmorecoffee@lemmy.cafe · -22 pts · 230d
Also, I downvoted you. I can’t see the votes, as you know, but now I know I can swipe haha. Cheers.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 230d
What a totally non-dickless and totally non-shitbag comment! Breath of fresh air!
Rhaedas@fedia.io · -1 pts · 230d
You're not wrong...
...you know the rest.