North Dakota Pipeline Protester May Lose Arm After Police Clashes

A 21-year-old woman is fighting to save her arm after she was severely injured by an explosive during clashes with police at Standing Rock in North Dakota on Sunday night. Sophia Wilansky, a water protector from New York claims her arm was “devastatingly injured” when a concussion grenade fired by the police exploded The woman was one of several people that activists said had been taken to hospital for their injuries after a clash between protesters and police, who also doused protesters with water cannon as temperatures dipped below freezing.   CBS news reports: Wayne Wilansky said during a press conference outside a Minneapolis hospital that his 21-year-old daughter Sophia was wounded in a concussion grenade blast that “blew the bone out of her arm.” Police have denied using concussion grenades amid the protests. Concussion grenades are non-lethal devices that produce a blinding flash of light and loud sound. Sophia Wilansky is facing dozens of surgeries over several months, but there’s little guarantee her arm can be saved, her father said. “I told her that I did a little bit of an interview with a few reporters, and she said please go and tell them it’s not about me, it’s about [...]

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