Overview
- Tucker Collins and his attorneys announced Wednesday a federal tort claim and related civil-rights filing against the Department of Homeland Security seeking damages, with some filings citing a $100 million demand.
- Collins, 18, was photographing the “No Kings” protest at the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles on March 28 when a projectile struck his right eye, which surgeons later removed.
- Collins says he heard no dispersal order and posed no threat, while DHS says officers issued seven warnings and faced rioters who threw rocks, bottles, and cement blocks, leading to arrests.
- His lawyer says surgical photos show fragments consistent with an FN303 round, and he is urging local authorities to open a criminal investigation into the officer who fired.
- Federal judges have restricted agents’ use of tear gas and projectiles, including bans on aiming at the head unless deadly force is justified, a backdrop that could shape policy reviews and any civil case that follows.