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Protester blind in left eye after federal agent fired projectile at Santa Ana protest, family says
ABC 7 ^ | January 14, 2026 | AMY TAXIN

Posted on 01/14/2026 12:07:50 PM PST by Morgana

SANTA ANA, Calif -- A demonstrator was hit in the face with a projectile fired by a federal officer at close range during a Southern California protest, leaving him bloodied and with serious injuries, according to video and accounts from fellow protesters and family on Tuesday.

The Friday gathering outside the federal immigration building in the city of Santa Ana was in response to the shooting death of Renee Good in Minneapolis by a federal agent, which has kicked off a wave of protests around the country.

Hundreds of people had marched in the streets in Santa Ana until a smaller group was left outside the federal building by evening, shouting expletives through megaphones about Immigration and Customs Enforcement, video showed. At one point, they burned what appeared to be an American flag on the steps of the building while shouting "Justice for Renee Good."

The demonstrators came up onto the plaza, where a handful of agents stood in riot gear and held crowd-control gear. At one point, officials forcefully move a demonstrator back down onto the steps, and the group continues to chant as the agents appear to urge them to move back. Later, an orange cone can be seen rolling up onto the plaza, and officers begin firing munitions as they walk toward the crowd. It is not clear if the cones were thrown and by whom.

The injured demonstrator, identified as 21-year-old Kaden Rummler by his aunt, is seen on video shouting through a megaphone along with others outside the building, where several officers are stationed in riot gear. The officers approached the crowd, then grabbed another demonstrator by the arm, identified in a federal criminal complaint as Katelyn Skye Seitz, pulling them onto the steps.

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1 posted on 01/14/2026 12:07:50 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Sucks to be stupid.


2 posted on 01/14/2026 12:08:50 PM PST by madison10 ("...the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty." Psalm 74:20b [NKJV])
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To: Morgana

So maybe if you don’t act like an ass and put yourself into a situation where you might get your eye shot out, it wouldn’t happen

ZERO sympathy


3 posted on 01/14/2026 12:09:23 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: Morgana

Mess with the bull... get the horns.


4 posted on 01/14/2026 12:10:29 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: Morgana
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5 posted on 01/14/2026 12:11:03 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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To: Morgana

Call him WoodEye. Woodeye say too bad?


6 posted on 01/14/2026 12:11:19 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Morgana

Well next time dont be an idiot and you wont go blind in a protest


7 posted on 01/14/2026 12:11:21 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Morgana

Hey doctor,it hurts when I do this.........well,don’t do that.


8 posted on 01/14/2026 12:11:47 PM PST by 4yearlurker (Don't worry,pray.)
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To: Morgana

Imagine if the media had covered the actual wanton attacks by feds on peaceful protestors on 1/6 like how they treat how the sensationalize the feds actually defending against these violent ANTIFA thugs interfering with law enforcement.


9 posted on 01/14/2026 12:11:51 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Morgana

Another FAFO award winner.


10 posted on 01/14/2026 12:11:55 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Morgana

Does this protester know what a car is?

I think she was already blind in the left eye.


11 posted on 01/14/2026 12:12:23 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Morgana

Red Ryder BB gun?

To ALL: Freepathon will miss tomorrow’s goal.


12 posted on 01/14/2026 12:12:58 PM PST by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months. Is that a big deal?)
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To: Morgana

Hey Kaden, just think how cool you’ll look sporting a black eye patch and few scars. You can go into bars and folks will buy you drinks to celebrate your heroic stand.


13 posted on 01/14/2026 12:19:44 PM PST by technically right
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To: Morgana
Not a Darwin Award, we can hope tho...

FAFO!

14 posted on 01/14/2026 12:21:20 PM PST by BFW
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To: Morgana

Marxists above all should know that making revolution is not a garden party, and to make an proletariat omelette, you need to break some eggs.....


15 posted on 01/14/2026 12:22:07 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Morgana

Surely he was just standing there, holding his gay little protest sign, and chanting his gay little protest chant when the big bad fed fired upon him.


16 posted on 01/14/2026 12:22:15 PM PST by Antihero101607
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To: Morgana

The media is lying about what happened in this incident.

That protester had been pretending to point a gun at the ice facility.

He approached closer to the facility, and 2 agents openned the door, one shooting peperballs at him

He backed off.

Social media at the time was saying everything from the agents shot his eye out (not saying it was pepper balls) to he was shot in the face and blew out his eye with a pepper ball gun.

Clearly, in the twitter, that isn’t the case, he was hit above the eyebrow, and got an eye full of irritant.

https://x.com/IRT_Media/status/2009924120746832217


17 posted on 01/14/2026 12:28:56 PM PST by backpacker_c
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To: Morgana
Disorderly Agitator blind in left eye...


18 posted on 01/14/2026 12:29:18 PM PST by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won, Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Morgana

Never bring googles to an ICE fight


19 posted on 01/14/2026 12:29:54 PM PST by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: Morgana

You took the training.

Signed up for $20 per hour.

Did what you were told.

And now, shiver me timbers, you just learned there’s no compensation for personal injury grave or otherwise.

You were used by everyone.

Haaa!


20 posted on 01/14/2026 12:36:31 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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