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This news story out of St. Louis is so scary.

Dornella Conner became a victim of the violence that has surged in Ferguson and now affecting parts of St. Louis when her and boyfriend De’Angeles Lee were driving away from a gas station and were accosted by policemen. One officer abruptly attacked Conner from her passenger seat by smashing her window with a “non-lethal” bean bag round (that’s an odd name for a weapon). The round was swung with such a force it struck her in the left eye and she is now completely blind in that eye and partially on the right.

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Conners was admitted to the hospital by a samaritan member of that same police squad, and she recalled the incident to local St. Louis/Ferguson news station KMOV: “They pulled up while we were coming towards the street, De’Anglels was trying to get away, they blocked us from the side, front and back”. At that time, a riot was happening at the gas station where even gunshots were popped, and it looks as if some policemen charged lethal regulation regardless of activity as long as you were in the vicinity. Conner’s father Donnell and sister Tikal Goldie shared their shock at the policemen’s abrupt tactics, especially on innocent bystanders: “I’m very upset, very disappointed with tactics that they used trying to get control of situation. I understand tough job, I understand that it was chaos, there was no reason to fire upon innocent person sitting in a vehicle.”

Tikal added: “My sister can now only see one side of things – literally. I really just want to have closure and justice for my sister.”

Conner later wrote on Facebook on Thursday: “I will have justice for what they did to me. But I’m happy I’m alive.”

To make matters more disheartening, Conners’ boyfriend Lee has an inexplainable warrant out for his arrest and at a bond of $50,000.

W. T. F…???

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Pregnant St. Louis Woman Loses Her Left Eye To Police Brutality  was originally published on hellobeautiful.com