[Magdalen] Urgent Prayers Needed

[Ginga Wilder]

Prayers for Sophia and everyone involved in this terrible situation.

Ginga

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Prayers continue here, as they have for some weeks now.  I'm glad that
> _finally_ there is somewhat increased coverage in the media.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim   ... today my sail I lift ....
>
>
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> On 11/22/2016 2:41 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>
>> As many of you may have heard, the police have been attacking unarmed
>> water
>> protectors at the Standing Rock Camp with water cannons, concussion bombs,
>> and rubber bullets. This kind of violence is uncalled for IMNSHO. One
>> unarmed person, Sophia Wilansky, was hit in the arm by a concussion
>> grenade
>> which exploded. She is in critical condition in a Bismarck hospital and
>> very likely to lose her arm. Prayers are needed for her and for all the
>> other protesters who are being attacked. Here is the press release
>> concerning Ms. Wilansky:
>>
>> Prepared by Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council at the Standing Rock
>> Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance Camps
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> “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.”
>>
>> A fund set up by friends and verified to help with Sophia’s recovery is
>> set
>> up here:
>>
>> https://www.gofundme.com/30aezxs
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Water is Life, Mni Wiconi
>>
>>
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