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Officers claim protesters set off explosion but Sophia Wilansky’s father and on-site medical professionals say injury is ‘entirely consistent’ with grenade blast
Sophia Wilansky, 21, may lose her arm after being hit by projectile when officers threw less-than-lethal weapons, her father said
North Dakota law enforcement have blamed protesters for a woman’s grievous injury at the Dakota Access pipeline protests on Sunday, despite assertions from the woman’s father and a witness to the incident that she was hit by a police concussion grenade.
Sophia Wilansky, an environmental activist from New York, was hospitalized in Minneapolis where surgeons are attempting to repair a severe injury to her left arm that destroyed arteries, nerves, muscle, soft tissue and bone, according to her father. She remains at risk of amputation, and if the arm is salvaged, it will probably have very limited functionality.
Wayne Wilansky, her father, contends that the injury was caused by an exploding concussion grenade thrown by law enforcement, who also deployed teargas, rubber bullets and a water cannon on protesters during a tense standoff on a bridge Sunday night.
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