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.
They were separated by a fence? Then shot some random 18 year old kid filming? Don’t we have an amendment to protect ourselves from tyranny?
Gahhh, I can’t even fathom losing an eye before turning 21, to government repression no less. I hope stories like this and others are helping to wake up the general public - because I still feel like I’m surrounded by tunnel visioned zombies in my day to day
You know, I feel there wasn’t much coverage of this no kings.
Zero made it up here