WEIRD
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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One of her fellow travelers referred to it as the Front lines. There’s the mind set.
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.”
Good points.
Note that this same woman was arrested at another recent organized, leftist operation.
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
Her parents must be so proud.
Well, she’s already lost her mind...
It appears that she has posted a warning that she possesses a Fiery Crotch of Doom. Perhaps she has chlamydia.
At least she admits the wound was self-inflicted.
Well ...she’s live a long time without a brain. An arm should be nothing.
Shame to see a 21 year old’s poor decisions payoff with loss of a limb. Hopefully she will get treatment from this sad case of Libtardation. As we know - poverty, suffering, loss of freedom, injury and death often accompanies Libtardation. The massive outbreak Venezuela and even Chicago suggest there should be some sort of telethon to raise funds to help find a cure. Maybe even one of those colored ribbons or a hashtag thingy?
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Something doesn’t seem right though about the injury. Presume these were commonly used flash-bangs and I don’t believe we often hear reports of such injury (dismemberment). My bet is that someone near her - and possibly her, had an IED. Again, poor decisions have a price...
Funny thing is there is such a thing as a pipeline pig. It is a machine that goes though a pipe to clean it out.
“Mama Erf”... stolen... LMAO
life is hard..even harder when you are stupid...
Freedom is not free.
“I hope she likes the bill for a 400 mile ambulance copter ride.”
$35K+? Probably.
“She was bent over the grenade when it went off.” Sounds like she was going to pick it up to throw it back. Murphy’s Laws of Combat: 5 second fuses aren’t.
Soapy water works best. It goes right through most clothes.
It is often used to kill starlings by soaking them on the roost when the temp gets cold. The soap goes right through their oil protected feathers.
Was that treaty ever ratified by Congress? Many treaties were not.
Brooke Shields was the best ever guest on that show!
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