Dakota
Access pipeline protester 'may lose her arm' after police standoff
Sophia
Wilansky, 21, was seriously injured after being hit by projectile
when officers threw less-than-lethal weapons at demonstrators, her
father said
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 a water cannon on Dakota
Access pipeline protesters
and threw “less-than-lethal” weapons, according to the woman’s
father.
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.
Graphic
photographs of her injured arm with broken bones visible were
circulated on social media.
“The
best-case scenario is no pain and 10-20% functionality,” said Wayne
Wilansky, Sophia’s 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, median 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. “She’s devastated. She
looks at her arm and she cries,” he said.
Sophia
Wilansky is one of thousands of activists who have travelled to the
Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North
Dakota to
attempt to halt the construction of the pipeline. Members of the
Standing
Rock Sioux tribe established a “spiritual camp” on the banks of
the Missouri in April. The tribe fears the pipeline will jeopardise
their water supply and say that construction has disturbed sacred
burial grounds.
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The
activists, who call themselves “water protectors”, have faced a
heavily militarised police force. More than 400
protesters have been arrested by
law enforcement officers who have deployed pepper spray, teargas,
rubber bullets, Tasers, sound weapons and other “less-than-lethal”
methods.
Following
Sunday’s confrontation 26
protesters were taken to hospital and
more than 300 injured, according to the Standing Rock Medic &
Healer Council. Most of the injured had hypothermia after being hit
by a water cannon in below-freezing weather.
The
Morton County sheriff’s department did not immediately respond to
inquiries from the Guardian. In an interview with the Los
Angeles Times,
a spokeswoman for the department denied the agency had deployed
concussion grenades and suggested the injury may have occurred while
protesters were “rigging up their own explosives”.
The
Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council refuted law enforcement’s
claims in a statement, citing eye-witness accounts of seeing police
throw concussion grenades, “the lack of charring of flesh at the
wound site” and “grenade pieces that have been removed from her
arm in surgery and will be saved for legal proceedings”.
The
incident on Sunday began when about 100 activists attempted to remove
two burned trucks from the bridge just north of the main encampment.
The bridge has been barricaded for several weeks, blocking the most
direct route to Bismarck, North Dakota, and raising safety concerns
among residents of the camp and the reservation.
The
barricade may have exacerbated Wilansky’s injury, her father said,
by delaying her arrival at a hospital in Bismarck. She was
subsequently airlifted to another hospital in Minneapolis.
Wilansky
has received a massive outpouring of support online. A crowdfunding
campaign established
to help pay her medical bills raised more than $120,000 (£96,000)
from more than 4,000 donors in the first seven hours.
Friends
of Wilansky are planning a prayer vigil in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
- This article was amended on 21 November 2016 to clarify that Sophia Wilansky’s father told the Guardian that she was injured by a projectile, which North Dakota law enforcement denies.
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As Thanksgiving approaches, more than 100 Native Americans and their allies have just been attacked and injured by police in a new assault using rubber bullets, tear gas, mace canisters and water cannons in freezing temperature.
Videos show police spraying people with cold water in freezing weather which has led to mass hypothermia.
This is an emergency. Please sign the petition that is helping us bring attention to these outrages.
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Regarding Standing Rock, we urge you to remove the National Guard. Halt the provision of war weapons and war training to police departments. Demilitarize police actions at Standing Rock. Send Department of Justice observers. Deny the Army Corps of Engineers' permit for the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Background:
> TYT Politics: Barbaric Dakota Access Oil Police Cause Mass Hypothermia
> Democracy Now: Standing Rock: 100+ Injured After Police Attack with Water Cannons, Rubber Bullets & Mace
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Hier nog twee video's en teksten van Brasscheck TV:
The
full truth about the Dakota pipeline
On
this day where we supposedly give thanks for the Native Americans who
saved the Pilgrims from freezing and starving to death...
Let's get some things straight about the Dakota pipeline:
1. The entire project is based o fraudulent permitting and Obama can shut it down with the stroke of a pen.
2. This pipeline was deemed "too dangerous" to run nearby Bismarck so it was moved to this area where it threatens the only fresh water supply in the region.
3. The entire Missouri River is put at risk by this poorly conceived project.
4. This pipeline is only economically because the 40+ year LAW forbidding the export of oil from the US was recently overturned.
5. We are trading the future of our fresh water supply for the chance for a few billionaires to make a killing by exporting US energy reserves that we should be retaining for ourselves.
Please share this widely so your friends, family and colleagues understand what's at stake and support the heroic effort thousands are making to stop it.
Let's get some things straight about the Dakota pipeline:
1. The entire project is based o fraudulent permitting and Obama can shut it down with the stroke of a pen.
2. This pipeline was deemed "too dangerous" to run nearby Bismarck so it was moved to this area where it threatens the only fresh water supply in the region.
3. The entire Missouri River is put at risk by this poorly conceived project.
4. This pipeline is only economically because the 40+ year LAW forbidding the export of oil from the US was recently overturned.
5. We are trading the future of our fresh water supply for the chance for a few billionaires to make a killing by exporting US energy reserves that we should be retaining for ourselves.
Please share this widely so your friends, family and colleagues understand what's at stake and support the heroic effort thousands are making to stop it.
No water, no life and what's at stake in North Dakota
No water, no life.
It's a simple formula.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explains simple facts the mainstream news media won't share
with you in a million years.
For example, did you now that Trump owns a $2 million stake in the pipeline?
Did you know this pipeline project is violating many existing laws and could be shut down with the stroke of a pen?
===========It's a simple formula.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. explains simple facts the mainstream news media won't share
with you in a million years.
For example, did you now that Trump owns a $2 million stake in the pipeline?
Did you know this pipeline project is violating many existing laws and could be shut down with the stroke of a pen?
Welcome
to the police state
North Dakota...Oil
companies want to put a pipeline under the Missouri River.
The people who live there want to stop it.
And out come the head crackers in blue.
Obama's comment: "We're going to let it ride."
The people who live there want to stop it.
And out come the head crackers in blue.
Obama's comment: "We're going to let it ride."
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Alsof het gvd niet genoeg is, dat de VS de grootste genocide ooit heeft gepleegd op de rechtmatige bewoners, van wat nu de VS heet...........
Het is duidelijk, dat de politie door het inzetten van waterkanonnen in de kou, de bevolking martelt, dezelfde bevolking, die het zou moeten beschermen (ook tegen bodem- en watervervuiling!!),
Zie ook: 'North-Dakota Pipeline, grote schande voor Obama en de VS.......'
en: 'Canada’s Standing Rock..... Stop de Site C Dam!'
en: 'ING financiert de Dakota Access Pipeline, die het leefgebied van het Sioux volk bedreigt..........'
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