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@TMTalways @WorldAnonLegion @UR_Ninja @NoDAPL TANGO DOWN! Stop selling weapons being used against Water Protectors. https://t.co/F2SltHeg0g pic.twitter.com/O5Riq4DFb8 — DeadSec (@AzureDeadSec) November 22, 2016

#Breaking - https://t.co/mjxwf1pmTp, site of @SafarilandGroup who made "less lethal" munitions used on #NoDAPL, taken offline by Anonymous pic.twitter.com/vHXH97NgH8 — Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) November 22, 2016

the sheriff's department appears to be lying through its teeth.

"The Stinger OC Grenade is a maximum effect device that delivers four stimuli for psychological and physiological effects: rubber pellets, light, sound, and OC. The Stinger Grenade is most widely used as a crowd management tool by Law Enforcement and Corrections. The Stinger Grenade has an initial 1.5 second delay that initiates fuze assembly separation, followed by another .5 second delay before the blast which is sufficient to project the rubber balls and chemical agent in a 50 foot radius."

Piece of Stinger grenade recovered from Hwy 1806 last night appears to match this @SafarilandGroup product- https://t.co/FnWoyrjksT #NoDAPL pic.twitter.com/5fVnQw4RJe — Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) November 22, 2016

Chemical/"less lethal" munitions fired at #NoDAPL water protectors by Morton County Sheriff and supporting agencies Sun night/Monday morning pic.twitter.com/Zh2lrHTIsn — Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) November 22, 2016

Anonymous suddenly took an active role in the battle against the Dakota Access Pipeline,One young water protector,now faces the possibility offter one such deviceA 13-year-old girl wasand two tribal eldersduring the brutal police offensive and had to be resuscitated on scene.Amid a complete, police from some 20 agencies and five states, led by the Morton County Sheriff's Department, unleashed anon water protectors, launchingand, and — perhaps most perilously and insultingly —according to witnesses and a statement via her father, Wayne, had beento the group on the Highway 1806 Backwater Bridge when what is believed to be a concussion grenade exploded on her arm, ripping through flesh and muscle, leaving bone exposed.Beginning early Monday morning,which had been reporting from the bridge overnight, returned to the scene toand discovered spent munitions shells withAnonymous DeadSec, under the Twitter account @AzureDeadSec, took responsibility for taking down the Safariland site, tweeting, with a link to prove the downed site:Morton County Sheriff's Departmenthubristically claimed in the Los Angeles Times that Walinsky could not possibly have been hit by anything from police, andto receive such an injury. "It wasn't from our law enforcement, because we didn't deploy anything that should have caused that type of damage to her arm," Herr boldly contended. "We're not sure how her injury was sustained."Thanks to Unicorn Riot's careful inspection of the scene, however,Prior to the DeadSec takedown of the Safariland site, the description of Stinger grenades — identical to the pieces found at the site of the police assault on water protectors — indeed sound as if they would readily cause the horrific injury Walinsky endured:If such a grenade landed on the young water protector's arm, thatand could obviously cause severe injury and disfigurement.Safariland'swhere police launched the altogether disproportionate assault on Standing Rock Sioux and other water protectors, and — again prior to the site being taken offline by Anonymous — described symptoms such asSuch weapons, though they might be employed by police for crowd control under the broad characterization of less-than lethal, nonetheless can and do maim and even kill.The Morton County Sheriff's Department notedfrom a projectile launched by someone in the group of water protectors. However, police at Backwater Bridge— water protectors, in marked contrast, hadfrom the onslaught of chemical weapons, projectiles, and lower-intensity water cannons.Those present in the group reported beingand then inundated with water,Scores suffered, at least 20 water protectorsConsidering Safariland's insidious weapons directly contributed to the suffering — and, in one case, permanent disfigurement, if not amputation — of peaceful water protectors whose only goal is to preserve clean drinking water for this and future generations, Anonymous' takedown of the site makes sense.Sophia Walinsky is currently enduringat the Minnesota hospital where she was airlifted in an attempt to preserve her arm, but it still isn't clear whether that will be possible. A GoFundMe campaign to assist her with medical expenses can be found here — if you are unable to contribute, please consider sharing the campaign.Standing Rock Sioux water protectors face even tougher times ahead in their battle to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, with tThere are many ways you can help them this winter, a list of suggested items to donate and further information can be found here . You can also voice your concerns about police treatment of water protectors by contacting those responsible for the pipeline, and a suggested list can be found here