Moore got there around 5 p.m., chanted with the rest of the crowd and recorded some footage on his cellphone. The protesters were peaceful around him and some of them held up signs, he said. As Moore was turning away to leave, a law enforcement agent shot him directly in the face with a rubber bullet.<\/p>\n
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Micah Moore in a hospital in June 2025 after being shot with a projectile during a \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest.<\/p>\n
(Courtesy of Micah Moore)<\/p>\n
Moore immediately lost all hearing in his right ear and started bleeding. Someone in the crowd applied a bandage to his head and he was quickly taken to an emergency room.<\/p>\n
After surgery last week to try to regain his hearing, Moore is in a painful recovery process with no certainty that his hearing will return, his attorney said.<\/p>\n
Moore said he is now terrified of taking part in any protests. \u201cI\u2019m constantly uneasy because what warning signs can you look for if all the rules were being followed and I was still shot?\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
During the March 28 rally outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown L.A. \u2014 the site where many anti-ICE protests have converged \u2014 Collins said he was taking photos when he was shot in the eye. <\/p>\n
Collins said that after he was shot, agents began deploying tear gas, which further irritated his throat and eyes. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese weapons can be aimed and are very precise, so there was some reasoning that they were shooting at head level, that they were shooting in my direction and there was no one around me,\u201d he said. \u201cThe only other people were people with their cameras taking videos and photos. I\u2019m inclined to believe that it had to do with why I was shot.\u201d <\/p>\n
DeSimone said that the LAPD has reached out to them in order to launch an internal investigation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has to be consequences, both within the department and for discipline and termination where necessary,\u201d DeSimone added. \u201cAs well as realistic criminal investigation when they\u2019ve committed a crime in violation of a penal code.\u201d <\/p>\n
DeSimone said he intends to argue that the shootings of his clients in the head with rubber bullets violated the California penal code, which prohibits using projectiles and chemical agents as crowd dispersal except \u201cto defend against a threat to life or serious bodily injury.\u201d <\/p>\n
Last year, federal judges issued preliminary injunctions restricting Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from using tear gas, pepper-ball munitions and other less-lethal projectiles against protesters, banning the targeting of the head, neck or torso, except when deadly force is justified.<\/p>\n
Both Moore and Collins said that their injuries have affected their work and studies. Both said they will continue protesting despite what happened to them. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is how governments escalate from small oppressed groups into larger and larger groups that are deemed a problem,\u201d Moore said. \u201cI went out to protest not because I was personally targeted by ICE but because others in the community were. Now that I have been personally targeted, people reading this should see that not as an erosion of my civil liberties but as a threat to their own.\u201d <\/p>\n
Collins said that, despite his injury, he feels a duty to attend future protests.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has only proven to me why it\u2019s even more important to have people documenting what\u2019s going on,\u201d he said. \u201cIf there wasn\u2019t someone who captured video of when I was shot, it would be so much harder for me to seek justice for what has happened.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Micah Moore, a film production assistant, recently underwent his second surgery to restore the hearing in his right…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11273,9923,36294,7084,5776,349,719,664,48,52,51,47,50,49,1555,2959,127212,2058,11276,127213,113343],"class_list":["post-300792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-crowd","tag-face","tag-head","tag-hearing","tag-homeland-security","tag-injury","tag-justice","tag-king","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-man","tag-march","tag-micah-moore","tag-protest","tag-protester","tag-rubber-bullet","tag-tucker-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}