fatal shooting last week of Renee Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minnesota<\/a>. Rummler was injured and another protester, Skye Jones, was taken into custody.<\/p>\nVideo footage of the incident shows three agents approaching the group before one agent tries to take Jones into custody, prompting at least three demonstrators to try to intervene.<\/p>\n
The video then shows at least one agent firing less-lethal rounds at the crowd, before aiming and shooting Rummler in the face, who drops to the ground, holding his face as the crowd retreats. <\/p>\n
Rummler remained in the hospital as of Tuesday afternoon, as they await a police report that can identify what type of metal was in the rounds used. His doctors are concerned about neurotoxins from the bullet, he said. <\/p>\n
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Rue El Amar holds a sign during Tuesday\u2019s news conference.<\/p>\n
(Allen J. Schaben \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n
\u201cI pleaded with him, call an ambulance,\u201d El Amar read. \u201cI thought I was going to bleed out on the floor of the federal building with the DHS officer holding my head down to the ground like a trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rummler is now blind in his left eye, his tear duct has been destroyed and the \u201cflaps of my eye are barely holding on,\u201d he said. Doctors found pieces of plastic and glass in his skull as well as metal in his stomach lining, and \u201cpulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel from my eye,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
A piece of metal is lodged only millimeters from his carotid artery, a major blood vessel in the neck. Doctors were unable to remove some of the shrapnel from his skull and he \u201cwill have to live with metal pieces there for the rest of my life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI focused on the voices of the people, the voices of my friends and comrades,\u201d Rummler said. \u201cI believe that\u2019s what kept me alive, hearing them continue the fight despite how aggressive our oppressors were.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary with the Department of Homeland Security, previously told The Times that a \u201cmob of 60 rioters threw rocks, bottles and fireworks at law enforcement officers outside of the federal building.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Tuesday afternoon, the department said in a statement: \u201cThis is absurd. DHS law enforcement took this rioter to the hospital for a cut and he was released that night. … Make no mistake: Rioting and assaulting law enforcement is not only dangerous but a crime.\u201d<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the Santa Ana Police Department said the only violence they were aware of that night were demonstrators tossing orange cones at the federal agents.<\/p>\n
Connor Atwood, a member of Dare to Struggle who was present during the incident, said he didn\u2019t witness bottles or rocks being thrown at agents. Some firecrackers were set off near the sidewalk, but away from the building entrance, he said.<\/p>\n
Jones, who also spoke during the news conference, was arrested during the incident and held for nearly three days until being released Monday, they said during the news conference. Jones said they weren\u2019t told the charges against them until the morning of their release.<\/p>\n
Jones said they hope Friday\u2019s incident makes people \u201copen their eyes\u201d to the violence committed by federal agents against \u201cinnocent civilians who are just trying to protect their neighbors and friends,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen confronting those who enforce ICE terror, they will snatch us out of a crowd. They will shoot us point blank with pepper-ball bullets, and they will throw us to the ground,\u201d Jones said. \u201cRepression is inevitable when demanding justice, so we must not cower at it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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