One bright spot from its depraved violence: ICE is making an airtight case for abolishing itself

The Los Angeles Times reports that a 21-year-old protester had their skull fractured and was permanently blinded in one eye after a Homeland Security agent fired what law enforcement calls a nonlethal round, although “less lethal” is a more accurate description:

Jeri Rees said her 21-year-old nephew underwent six hours of surgery and that doctors found shards of plastic, glass and metal embedded in his eyes and around his face, including a metal piece lodged 7 mm from a carotid artery. [...]

She said the DHS agent was a few feet from her nephew when he fired the weapon.

Several videos of Friday’s incident were shared on social media. One video shows demonstrators, who were protesting the fatal shooting in Minnesota of Renee Good, throwing orange safety cones at the agents, who were standing guard outside of the Santa Ana federal building. [...]

The video shows the victim dropping to the ground after being shot, holding their face as the crowd retreats. The same agent then drags the victim by the hood of their jacket; they appear to be choking, grasping at the jacket binding their neck as blood pours from their left eye.

Another video shows the victim inside the building, lying on the ground bleeding while agents fire what appear to be pepper balls at the back of the head and neck of a man trying to record the incident with his cellphone.

As more and more Americans are becoming aware, this police state behavior — frequently backed by official lies so lame that Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels would have been embarrassed if anybody on his team had come up with them — is not from rogue agents or rare incidents. DHS and ICE are engaged in state terrorism, from the top on down.