On Friday night, the Conner family was celebrating the eighth birthday of Dornella Conner’s oldest daughter. She has another daughter who is 2. They were eating birthday cake and ice cream, but soon she was not feeling well and her family helped change her eye pad and gave her medicine, her father said. She declined to be interviewed.

But Dornella Conner did post an explanation on social media about the night she was hurt. She said she was not protesting or looting. She said she was at the gas station getting gas and snacks and trying to get home. She said the police cars pulled up and blocked her boyfriend’s car.

Now she said her boyfriend will lose his job for being jailed, and she will lose hers because she is blinded in one eye. Donnell Conner said his daughter was training for night packing and assembly line work.

Donnell Conner said doctors told the family that his daughter had glass and other debris in her eye, perhaps because the bean bag had ruptured. She was given a prosthetic eye, but doctors cannot put a lens in yet, he said.

Samantha Liss is a business reporter at the Post-Dispatch. Follow her on Twitter @samanthann and the business section @postdispatchbiz. Kim Bell covers breaking news for www.STLtoday.com and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Follow her on Twitter here.