"Rodriguez and his girlfriend, Ale, who declined to give her last name, said the officers gave no warning before firing at them. She said she was hit in the chest with a less-lethal round but was not injured. "That's when I started yelling at them," she said. "I'm like holding a sign that says 'Stop kidnapping my neighbors' and a candle; I am no threat to any of [those] guys.""
"In a statement released by Rummler this week and read by a member of the social justice organization Dare to Struggle, which organized one of the protests that day, he said doctors found pieces of plastic and glass in his skull as well as metal in his stomach lining, and pulled a piece of plastic "the size of a nickel" from his injured eye."
Homeland Security officers opened fire from above at protesters in Santa Ana, striking at least two people in the face. Britain Rodriguez, 31, was standing at the bottom of steps when he was hit and said his eye 'exploded.' A video shows him on the ground holding his face and screaming that he had been shot and was bleeding. His girlfriend, Ale, said officers gave no warning and that she was hit in the chest with a less-lethal round. Kaden Rummler, 21, suffered severe injuries; doctors found plastic and glass in his skull, metal in his stomach lining, removed a nickel-sized piece of plastic from his eye, and found metal millimeters from his carotid artery.
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