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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She obviously didn’t consult the Book of Armaments. Five is right out.....
Cleric: And the Lord spake, saying, “First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
A: Called across the lines for the PIGS to help them.
From now on, when people strive to achieve the Darwin Award, they will be known to be performing a "Wilansky", in her honor.
Im sorry but police Do Not use grenades on protestors. They know how to control disobedient thugs without them.
“Sounds like the authorities were providing water.”
That is mighty considerate of them.
given her visuals, i bet it will be ‘stumpy’...
The description of her injuries exactly matches the description of several victims, injuries as a result of the Boston bombing.
This was an IED, no doubt. Bets are the LEO have FLIR video of the whole thing.
Well if it isn’t my old friend Mr. McGreg. With a leg for an arm and an arm for a leg!
I think we should give her a field promotion to Cap. Hook.
Her (obviously incompetent) parents sure picked the wrong name for her.
Nothing wise about that ugly imbecile.
One-Armed Wilansky.
Has a nice ring to it...
That's just flat out wrong, man...
How did she get there? bicycle?
Not to mention the fuel for the chopper. And I’m guessing she didn’t walk from NY.
In my neck of the woods they protest the oil rigs using plastic kayaks.
And if she's fat, she also greases the pipeline and deceases the "n" value.
“Bets are the LEO have FLIR video of the whole thing.”
FLIR from above as well.
Great! Almost the end of the year & we have a late entrant into the annual Darwin Awards.
No Sympathy here.
“How did she get there? bicycle?”
It’s the ‘sacred stones’ dude! The sacred stones of the “Chante tin’sa kinanzi Po spirit camp” magically transported her directly to the heart of turtle island from New York. However, ufortunately for them, the sacred pipe used in the sacred stone spirit-transportation ceremony was confiscated. Since they don’t use oil, they’re now back to using horses, bicycles, and that new super secret special hybrid car that is powered by unicorn farts and sacred stones.
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