DHS Responds to Protester’s Injury From Clash With Federal Agents in California

Kaden Rummler was blinded in his left eye after being hit by a projectile during a protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents confront protestors in front of the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis on Jan. 12, 2026. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Jan. 18 defended a group of federal officers who fired non-lethal rounds at a small crowd of protesters during a clash in California that left a college student blind in one eye.

“He RUSHED officers—a federal crime,” DHS wrote in an X post. “The riots in Los Angeles were a highly coordinated campaign of violence—agitators wielded shields and a mob of about 60 rioters threw rocks, bottles, fireworks, and even shot at law enforcement officers!”