Posted on 11/22/2016 6:40:16 AM PST by simpson96
A New Yorker was hospitalized with a gruesome injury while protesting the Dakota Access pipeline on North Dakota's Standing Rock Reservation, activists say.
The woman — identified by activists as 21-year-old Sophia Wilansky — could lose her left arm after a Monday explosion behind the protest blockade near Cannon Ball tore through her winter jacket and skin, exposing bone.
The Bronx woman was airlifted nearly 400 miles to the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis following the 4 a.m. incident, said Wilansky’s friend and fellow activist Vaimoana Niumeitolu.
“They’re trying to see if her arm can be saved,” Niumeitolu told the Daily News after speaking with Wilansky's parents.
Activists and authorities had conflicting perspectives on the blast.
Niumeitolu believes, citing witnesses, that a concussion grenade injured Wilansky. Niumeitolu alleged the device was propelled by Morton County Sheriff’s Office personnel during a volatile demonstration where authorities in an armored, mine-resistant truck hosed protesters with a water cannon as temperatures plunged below freezing.
“They told me she was bringing water to people at the frontlines,” said Niumeitolu, who is also an activist from New York.
Wilansky was bent over the grenade when it detonated and broke her arm, Niumeitolu said.
Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier attributed the blast to protesters and said law enforcement had nothing to do with the explosion.
“We don't know where it came from,” Kirchmeier said at a Monday press conference held hours after the explosion.
Kirchmeier claims protesters were flinging fuel canisters at officers.
“The tactics the protesters have used have been increasing in their aggressiveness,” Kirchmeier added.
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If they want remedy, go to court and get the land back. Otherwise they have the option to veto every bit of building or development in the entire USA.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
I love it. Kinda like the Liberal Press saying if Mary Jo Kopechne had lived she would have benefitted from Teddy’s policies :)
These protestors run on emotions. Looking at the linked to photo of this woman holding a widdle puppy dog in a park gives the impression that the last place you’d expect her to show up is at a construction site. I’m sure she’s been brainwashed into believing that a pipeline is scary bad, and will contaminate all the water in Mama Erf. What these libtards fail to recognize is that the pipeline is FAR safer than using their wealthy idol Buffet’s choo-choo trains for transport. When she isn’t protesting, and is living in whatever city she’s from in NY, I wonder if she can even comprehend where the raw materials come from that keep her and all her fellow city dwellers warm all winter? She’s a perfect example of a product of our nation’s so called education system.
She had man hands.
No need to apologize..............
that was my first thought, and it exploded in her hand..................
"Furiosa" comes to mind (latest Mad Max with Charlize Theron).
There is absolutely no way, 0 way, that a blast ball cause any injury to this woman that we require her arm to be amputated....or even broken.
These blast balls are essentially an oversozed and thicker inner portion of a tennis ball with a tiny portion of accellerant and sometimes some OC powder.
I have used these and have had one go off against my ankle. The only think that happemed was I was startled by the sound and my pants and sock got white powder on them.
I believe someone was picking up or near a pipe bomb and it went off.
These injuries are not consistent with balst balls but are consistent with IEDs such as pipe bombs....if it is her humerus then most likely she was carrying it in a satchel or someone else left it on the ground and she picked it up.
Rachel Corrie, less flattened. Also akin to the bomber whose bomb detonates a little early. Cry me a river. I’m glad she lived, but she deserves the rest.
Would you call a one-armed prostitute a 'hook'er?
LOL
Mindful of the Weatherman bomber group in the east village circa 1970. That one fortunately took out a few of them, permanently.
I have ZERO tolerance for bombers. I have no pity for them either.
Your comments are exactly correct. How can the earth be "contaminated" by something which comes from the earth? Oil is a part of nature, as natural as green tree moss.
As has been proven countless times, when oil is spilled, it does not damage the environment long term. Remember the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico a few years ago? Few do.
She was arrested as part of a protest in Burlington Vermont on October 20, 2016.
https://jailalert.com/arrest-records/sophia-lianne-wilansky-7621739.html
Now she is throwing explosive devises.
Stand in front of a tractor.
Yep, reminds me a bit of the Rachel Corrie case.
Liberals should learn some common sense. They should study Rachel Corrie, learn where she is now, and how she got there.
Got your wish, wench...you’ve been disarmed.
all things considered, she made no difference
She’s alive so she wasn’t up to dying for the cause
Fauxcajawea
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