US Politics Mega-thread - Page 6291

On November 23 2016 08:03 ZapRoffo wrote:


Spray them with cold water so they don't die of cold--brilliant! Aside from that, if anything is being a nanny state, this is. I really don't understand why the police are so confrontational about it, especially since the construction isn't scheduled to go on right now anyway.

On November 23 2016 08:18 Sermokala wrote:

I'm saying that they shouldn't be doing that they should just clear out the protesters camp and be done with the protests for the public health. People coming in from warmer climates will die if they're unprepared during a cold snap.

Tachion you clearly have a problem with comprehension because I repeatedly said nothing about you comparing the alt right to the KKK I was attacking your shitty post and the way you were arguing in bad faith.

But we've already covered how there are neo nazies and kkk-lite people in the alt right, Its not news and it just makes you look dumb. Its like me comparing feminists to anti male activists, its just bad faith arguing.

On November 23 2016 08:29 Tachion wrote:

What you call bad faith arguing, I call seeking verification of personal observations. And it looks like my observations line up pretty damn close to the truth

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.

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.