Overview
- Video cited by the Associated Press shows an officer firing a crowd-control weapon from several feet away and agents later dragging 21-year-old Kaden Rummler across the ground.
- Rummler’s family says he underwent a six-hour surgery, suffered skull fractures, and is permanently blind in his left eye, though some injury details have not been independently verified.
- DHS labeled the crowd “violent rioters,” said two officers were injured, and reported two arrests on charges including assault on a federal officer and disorderly conduct.
- A federal complaint identified one arrestee as Katelyn Skye Seitz and alleged she ignored orders to leave, threw an orange cone, resisted arrest, and struck an officer.
- Officials have not said what projectiles were used during the Santa Ana clash, while a protester described them as pepper balls, and the incident followed nationwide demonstrations after Renee Nicole Good’s death in Minneapolis.