cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45360874
USC student Tucker Collins’s attorney accuses homeland security of ‘overt act of repression’ at Los Angeles protest
A freshman at the University of Southern California has lost an eye after he was shot last month with a “less-lethal” projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent at a No Kings march, according to his attorney.
On 28 March, Tucker Collins, 18, took to the streets of downtown Los Angeles to photograph throngs of protesters, who held signs and chanted slogans denouncing the Trump administration’s policies, his lawyer V James DeSimone said in a statement on Wednesday.
Collins followed behind a group that was headed toward the Metropolitan detention center, the downtown LA facility that has been a focal point for demonstrators in the past months.
In a video from that day shared by DeSimone on social media, Collins is seen holding a camera pointed toward demonstrators outside the federal facility, when suddenly he falls to his knees.
Note to self: wear eye pro at protests
See why I don’t go to these protests. Get shot or beaten and get hospitalized and then lose your job and everything for a protest that change nothing because the ones we are protesting don’t even pay attention. They just keep doing their evil shit get us closer and closer to full on oligarchy dictatorship.
If we going get bloody then make it worth it. Poor kid lost his eye for nothing. Hell the cop who did it probably get a promotion.
Skip straight to industrial sabotage.
