Student Hit by Projectile During ‘No Kings’ Protest Lost an Eye, Lawyer Says
The student, Tucker Collins, 18, was observing demonstrators in Los Angeles when he was struck, the lawyer said.
A freshman at the University of Southern California lost an eye after being struck by a projectile that a federal agent fired during a “No Kings” protest last month, his lawyer said.
The student, Tucker Collins, 18, was using his camera to document a confrontation between demonstrators and federal agents in downtown Los Angeles late in the afternoon on March 28 when a crowd-control munition struck him in his right eye, the lawyer, V. James DeSimone, said in a statement.
After being transported to the hospital, Mr. Collins underwent surgery for two and a half hours in an attempt to save the eye, Mr. DeSimone said in an interview on Thursday. But the damage was too severe, and the eye had to be surgically removed, he said.
Mr. DeSimone said that an officer with the Department of Homeland Security had fired the munition, fragments of which were recovered from his client’s eye, and that he suspected it was a pepper ball. However, it was unclear on Thursday exactly what hit Mr. Collins’s eye, and The New York Times could not confirm that a federal agent had fired the munition.
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My bold.
Your mother: “Be careful with that thing! Someone could lose an eye!”
So, fragments of a crowd control device were found in the victim’s eye. Who could have fired that?
