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<h3><font size="+3">Water Protector Hit with Concussion
Grenade in Surgery to Save Shattered Arm</font></h3>
<p><b>Prepared by Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council
at the Standing Rock Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance
Camps</b></p>
<p>Contact: Michael Knudsen, Medic Coordinator and
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, ethno-botanist Linda Black
Elk, PhD <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:medichealercouncil@gmail.com">medichealercouncil@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>Censored News</p>
<p>On November 21st as a direct result of the violent
police response at Standing Rock towards unarmed people
opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline, a 21 year old woman
from New York City, Sophia Wilansky, was severely
injured when a concussion grenade thrown by police hit
her left arm and exploded. Sophia was heading to bring
water to the unarmed people who were being attacked for
several hours by Morton County Sheriff forces. The
Morton County Sheriff’s Department has stated that she
was injured by a purported propane explosion that the
Sheriff’s Department claimed the unarmed people created.
These statements are refuted by Sophia’s testimony, by
several eye-witnesses who watched police intentionally
throw concussion grenades at unarmed people, by the lack
of charring of flesh at the wound site and by the
grenade pieces that have been removed from her arm in
surgery and will be saved for legal proceedings. </p>
<p>Sophia was safely taken out of North Dakota for
emergent surgery and is currently in stable condition.
Below is her statement as conveyed by her father, lawyer
Wayne Wilansky.</p>
<p>“At around 4:30am after the police hit the bridge with
water cannons and rubber bullets and pepper spray they
lobbed a number of concussion grenades which are not
supposed to be thrown at people directly at protesters
or protectors as they want to be called. A grenade
exploded right as it hit Sophia in the left forearm
taking most of the undersurface of her left arm with it.
Both her radial and ulnar artery were completely
destroyed. Her radius was shattered and a large piece of
it is missing. Her medial nerve is missing a large
section as well. All of the muscle and soft tissue
between her elbow and wrist were blown away. The police
did not do this by accident - it was an intentional act
of throwing it directly at her. Additionally police were
shooting people in face and groin intending to do the
most possible damage. Sophia will have surgery again
tomorrow as bit by bit they try to rebuild a somewhat
functioning arm and hand. The first surgery took a vein
from her leg which they have implanted in her arm to
take the place of the missing arteries. She will need
multiple surgeries to try to gain some functional use of
the arm and hand. She will be, every day for the
foreseeable future, fearful of losing her arm and hand.
There are no words to describe the pain of watching my
daughter cry and say she was sorry for the pain she
caused me and my wife. I died a thousand deaths today
and will continue to do so for quite some time. I am
left without the right words to describe the anguish of
watching her look at her now alien arm and hand.”</p>
<p>A fund set up by friends and verified to help with
Sophia’s recovery is set up here: </p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.gofundme.com/30aezxs">https://www.gofundme.com/30aezxs</a></p>
<p>The Standing Rock Medic Healer Council deplores the
ongoing use of violence by the state of North Dakota to
address the concerns of the thousands of people
peacefully assembled at Standing Rock to insist on the
right to clean healthy drinking water. </p>
<p>Water is Life, Mni Wiconi</p>
<p>Signed,</p>
<p>Linda Black Elk, PhD, Ethnobotanist, Sitting Bull
College</p>
<p>Michael Knudsen, MPH candidate, Standing Rock Medic
& Healer Council</p>
<p>Noah Morris, EMT</p>
<p>Amelia Massucco, RN</p>
<p>John Andrews, RN </p>
<p>Kristina Golden, EMT, herbalist</p>
<p>Sebastian Rodriguez, RN</p>
<p>Rosemary Fister, RN, MNPHN, DNP Candidate</p>
<p>Rupa Marya, MD, DoNoHarm Coalition, University of
California – San Francisco </p>
<p>David Kingfisher, MD, JD, Wichita State University</p>
<p>Jesse Lopez, MD, Heartland Surgical Care</p>
<p>Kalama O Ka Aina Niheu, MD, Aha Aloha Aina</p>
<p>Howard Ehrman, MD, MPH, University of Illinois -
Chicago</p>
<p>Geeta Maker-Clark, MD, University of Chicago</p>
<p>Elizabeth Friedman, MD</p>
<p>Vanessa Bolin, ALS Paramedic</p>
<p>Contact: Michael Knudsen, Medic Coordinator and
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe ethno-botanist Linda Black
Elk, PhD – <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:medichealercouncil@gmail.com">medichealercouncil@gmail.com</a></p>
<p>Photos available by request</p>
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