A 21-year-old anti-ICE protester holding just a megaphone was permanently blinded in one eye after a federal agent fired a ‘nonlethal’ round at close range in Santa Ana. Kaden Rummler underwent six hours of surgery. Doctors found shards of plastic, glass, and metal embedded in his eyes and across his face — including a piece of metal lodged just 7mm from a carotid artery. He narrowly avoided being killed.
This is outrageous.
A peaceful 21-year-old protester was shot point-blank in the face by a DHS/ICE agent with a supposedly “non-lethal” round, leaving him permanently blind, skull fractured, shards of metal & glass lodged near his carotid artery, and forced into 6 hours of surgery just to save his life.
How is this acceptable? When will law enforcement be held accountable for brutalizing Americans exercising their right to protest? This is state violence, not “crowd control.”
Kimmel.
Colbert.
Suits against the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes.
Extorting settlements from CBS, ABC, and others.
Blocking the AP's access to the White House.
This administration is responsible for the most blatant attacks on the free press in American history.
What will be left of the First Amendment when he’s done?
Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley: “Charlie Kirk did not deserve to be assassinated. But I’m overwhelmed seeing the flags of the United States of America at half-staff calling this nation to honor and venerate a man who was an unapologetic racist and spent all of his life sowing seeds of division and hate into this land. And hearing people with selective rage who are mad about Charlie Kirk, but didn’t give a damn about Melissa Hortman and her husband when they were shot down in their home, tell me I ought to have compassion for the death of a man who had no respect for my own life. I am sorry, but there’s nowhere in bible where we are taught to honor evil. How you die does not redeem how you lived. You do not become a hero in your death when you are a weapon of the enemy in your life”
“When we decline to speak ill of the dead, it’s because we have compassion for the living. In this respect, I am sorry for Kirk’s children. I don’t know if Kirk was a good father, but if he was, that does little to mitigate the damage he did to other people’s children.”
Charlie Kirk was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct.
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Charlie Kirk was just assassinated, that’s tragic, full stop.
But let’s not rewrite the man’s record. He publicly opposed the Civil Rights Act. He mocked George Floyd. He said he’d fear flying with Black pilots and vowed to force his daughter to carry a pregnancy even after rape.
You can mourn the death and still tell the truth.
Charlie Kirk (a college dropout) called Michelle Obama, a graduate of Princeton, and Harvard law a dei hire and a beneficiary of affirmative action. To call him a great American Patriot is literally insane.
In June 2025, Democratic elected official Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, along with their dog, were assassinated by a Trump supporter
Trump did not lower the flags to half-mast
He did not attend their funeral
President Biden, on the other hand, knelt before their coffins
Charlie Kirks murder being a much bigger national story and event than an actual democratic politician and her husband being assassinated seems foreboding