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.’”
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?
Nobody said anything about not having faith that things will be made right. They just said not to look to Democrats to do it.
Oh I don’t argue for giving up, I argue for holding them accountable yourself instead of relying on a spineless or complicit leadership class.
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.