Pregnant St. Louis woman loses eye after
police fire non-lethal round at car during Ferguson protest .
A pregnant St. Louis woman wants justice after she lost her left eye in
a violent run-in with police early Tuesday at the edge of Ferguson, Mo.
Before Dornnella Conner went for a ride into the hell that engulfed St.
Louis suburb on Monday night, she shared an illustration with her Facebook
friends of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin walking arm-in-arm – along with
her own thoughts: “RIP – feeling mad.”
Just hours later she would be part of the tragic storyline when a
police officer fired a non-lethal bean bag round at the car her boyfriend was
driving, shattering the passenger side window and leaving her face a bloody
mess, according to reports.
“I will have justice for what they did to me,” Conner wrote
on Facebook Thursday. “But I’m happy I’m alive.”
Protesters took to the streets when a St. Louis grand jury chose not to
charge police officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9 shooting death of Brown.
The couple was parked at the BP gas station on New Halls Ferry Road in
St. Louis, just north of the mayhem in Ferguson, when police moved in to clear
the area. Police reported gun fire from the gas station and eventually made 16
arrests, KMOV reported.
Police also claim someone tried to run down an officer, who fired at
the car fearing for his safety. Turns out, Conner was struck. Doctors were
unable to save her left eye and Conner reports blurry vision in the other.
“My sister can now only see one side of things – literally,” Conner’s
sister, who goes by the name Tikal Goldie, told KMOV. “I really just want to have
closure and justice for my sister.”
Conner said she and her beau were just bystanders caught up in an
unfortunate situation.
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