Anti-ICE demonstrator blinded by federal agent in Santa Ana speaks out [View all]
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During the ordeal, one of the federal officers pulled a protester, later identified as Sky Jones, out of the group. Rummler rushed after his friend but was stopped almost immediately by a less lethal round fired at close range that struck his left eye.
“When it hit me, I kind of didn’t realize what happened. I remember falling to my knees and I remember I covered my head. It was just this pressure and ringing in my years,” Rummler recalled. “I had so much adrenaline from the impact that I wasn’t really feeling it yet, I don’t think.”
Footage then shows an agent dragging the 21-year-old across the plaza, his face covered in blood running down onto his clothes and his shoes, the same clothes he wore for his interview with KTLA’s Chris Wolfe.
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“From what I’ve heard the doctors say and everyone else, yes, I will be blind for the rest of my life,” he responded when asked about the injury. “They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. They said I had shards of metal, glass and plastic all throughout my eye, behind my eye, in my skull. They also said I had a piece of shrapnel, metal, a few millimeters from my carotid artery. They said it was a miracle I survived because if it had gotten any closer and hit that, I would’ve died that night.”
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