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New York woman could lose arm after blast at Dakota Access pipeline protest site, activists say
New York Daily News ^ | 11/22/2016 | Chris Sommerfeldt and Nicole Hensley

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Dakota
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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

1 posted on 11/22/2016 6:40:16 AM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

so what.

keep it up and ramp it up law enforcement.


2 posted on 11/22/2016 6:42:12 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: simpson96

“protesters were flinging fuel canisters at officers”

Good way to lose an arm.


3 posted on 11/22/2016 6:42:46 AM PST by Senator Goldwater
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4 posted on 11/22/2016 6:43:06 AM PST by Emergencyawesome
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To: simpson96

So, she’s not local...


5 posted on 11/22/2016 6:43:17 AM PST by Mr. Douglas (Today is your life. What are you going to do with it?)
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To: simpson96
Protester disarmed by police.

Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry Sorry

6 posted on 11/22/2016 6:43:50 AM PST by null and void ( If you defy federal law, we deny federal funds.)
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To: simpson96
I hope she likes the bill for a 400 mile ambulance copter ride.

BTW, that's a man, baby!

7 posted on 11/22/2016 6:44:50 AM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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“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.


8 posted on 11/22/2016 6:45:52 AM PST by detective
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To: simpson96

Stand in front of a tractor.


9 posted on 11/22/2016 6:46:09 AM PST by HomerBohn
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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.


10 posted on 11/22/2016 6:46:10 AM PST by Snowybear
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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.


11 posted on 11/22/2016 6:50:00 AM PST by jerod (Pro-Abortion Gun Control Freaks & Environmental Nuts who hated Capitalism? The Nazi's)
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The woman — identified by activists as 21-year-old Sophia Wilansky —

After this, she will be identified as "Lefty"...

12 posted on 11/22/2016 6:50:08 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: simpson96

Maybe the New Yawkers should stay in New Yawk.


13 posted on 11/22/2016 6:50:17 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (A proud, irredeemable deplorable of the Trump Revolution.)
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To: simpson96

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.


14 posted on 11/22/2016 6:52:49 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: Snowybear

That might depend on how you view the 1868 Red Cloud Treaty.


15 posted on 11/22/2016 6:53:12 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Reverse Wickard v Filburn (1942) - and - ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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I am stumped as to why she would do such a thing...
16 posted on 11/22/2016 6:53:19 AM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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No, she will be ID’d as, “Hook”


17 posted on 11/22/2016 6:54:45 AM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: simpson96

They may be able to save the arm but her brain is permanently and hopelessly deformed.


18 posted on 11/22/2016 6:55:53 AM PST by allendale
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To: simpson96

My exact first thought!!


19 posted on 11/22/2016 6:56:16 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspirations)
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To: simpson96

So stupid.


20 posted on 11/22/2016 6:56:20 AM PST by native texan (Drain the swamp!)
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