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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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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
so what.
keep it up and ramp it up law enforcement.
“protesters were flinging fuel canisters at officers”
Good way to lose an arm.
So, she’s not local...
Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry
BTW, that's a man, baby!
“New York woman could lose arm after blast at Dakota Access pipeline protest site, activists say”
It sounds like she was trying to throw some sort of explosive devise at police officers.
Stand in front of a tractor.
You would be amazed at how many people mistakenly think that this pipeline runs through Indian land. It doesn’t. I get in arguments on Assbook almost every day on this.
This is truly tragic... The good news, prosthetic arms are made with plastics derived from oil, so the very industry this woman was protesting will provide her with a prosthetic arm made from products that wouldn’t exist if she and her fellow protesters had their way... Ironic.
After this, she will be identified as "Lefty"...
Maybe the New Yawkers should stay in New Yawk.
hosed protesters with a water cannon as temperatures plunged below freezing.
“They told me she was bringing water to people at the frontlines,”
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Sounds like the authorities were providing water.
That might depend on how you view the 1868 Red Cloud Treaty.
No, she will be ID’d as, “Hook”
They may be able to save the arm but her brain is permanently and hopelessly deformed.
My exact first thought!!
So stupid.
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