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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Hey, I just realized she will now have to wipe her private parts with her right hand! Can’t ever me a moslem! Maybe a Buddhist. “What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
“What is the sound of one hand clapping?”
Lapping. You have to smack your leg.
Ok, who knows how concussion grenades work, how they are used, and how much force they have? Could one take off a person’s arm? If so, would it take a direct hit, and do police ever discharge them in such a way that there would likely be a direct hit? I thought the purpose of concussion grenades was to chase people off WITHOUT using potentially deadly force?
No apology necessary; thank you!
“Bring out the scoops”
Uhhh...she just did!
Typical (now one-armed) lefty useful idiot.
“Treaty with the Sioux — Brulé, Oglala, Miniconjou, Yanktonai, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet, Cuthead, Two Kettle, Sans Arcs, and Santee — and Arapaho, 1868” (Treaty of Fort Laramie, 1868). 15 Stat. 635, Apr. 29, 1868. Ratified Feb. 16, 1868; proclaimed Feb. 24, 1868. In Charles J. Kappler, compiler and editor, Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties — Vol. II: Treaties. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1904, pp. 998–1007.
Propane or butane cylinders?
Well, I hope her arm heals up ok; but hope she learns a
lesson from all the pain involved. The $15 a day that Soros
pays ain’t worth it.
She gave an arm but not a leg. Half hearted devotion to the cause.
So from the Bronx, NY did she ride her bicycle to the protest in ND or use some fossil fuel burning engine for transportation? LIEberal hypocrites.
“A NEW YORKER was hospitalized with a gruesome injury while protesting the Dakota Access pipeline...” I’m sure she’s a “native” American - just like her idol Fauxcahontas.
If only we could upvote.
I laughed.
She looks like that “I’m not saying it’s aliens... but it’s aliens” guy.
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Play stupid games and blame the police?
No sympathy here!
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When a bomb goes off at a protest, the first people you check are the anarchists. That’s elementary.
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>> “BTW, that’s a man, baby!” <<
Oh! There’s no difference now.
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...and a bald head covered with a toupee.
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