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A 21-year-old woman was severely injured and may lose her arm after being hit by a projectile when North Dakota law enforcement officers turned water cannon on Dakota Access pipeline protesters and threw less-than-lethal weapons.
Sophia Wilansky was one of several hundred protesters injured during the standoff with police on Sunday on a bridge near the site where the pipeline is planned to cross under the Missouri river.
The best-case scenario is no pain and 10-20% functionality, said Wayne Wilansky, Sophias father, who travelled to Minneapolis where his daughter underwent eight hours of surgery on Monday. He said his daughter had been hit by a concussion grenade thrown by a police officer and that the arteries, medial nerve, muscle and bone in her left arm had been blown away.
Sophia will require additional surgery in the next few days and her arm may still have to be amputated, he added. Shes devastated. She looks at her arm and she cries, he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/22/dakota-access-pipeline-protester-seriously-hurt-during-police-standoff-standing-rock
democrank
(11,096 posts)The authoritarian mood in this country is deeply disturbing.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)and American citizens are the enemy. They shouldn't be allowed to carry concussion grenades.
sagetea
(1,369 posts)a spade...
This country is an oil company with an army.
This young woman, will never be the same. Her love and conviction to protect our water, a human right, and was shot by her own countrymen. All because they are losing 2 mil. a day!
Ho'
sage
Big K.&.R!
lpbk2713
(42,760 posts)More like drunken cowboys from the other stories I have heard.
2naSalit
(86,650 posts)are rental cops... it's the Pinkerton era all over again. We seem to have a severe hatred of learning from our mistakes... I wonder if that is something that has emerged from our collective imagining that our shit doesn't stink.