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Kim Kardashian offers financial aid to protester hit by rubber bullet

Kim Kardashian has offered financial assistance to a young woman shot with a rubber bullet by police while protesting. The SKIMS founder posted a public appeal to Twitter after seeing a picture of a protester’s grisly facial injuries. “This is heartbreaking and so disturbing,” Kardashian, 39, wrote. “Does anyone know how I can get in …

Kim Kardashian has offered financial assistance to a young woman shot with a rubber bullet by police while protesting.

The SKIMS founder posted a public appeal to Twitter after seeing a picture of a protester’s grisly facial injuries.

“This is heartbreaking and so disturbing,” Kardashian, 39, wrote. “Does anyone know how I can get in contact with her? I would love to help her with her medical care if she needs it.”

The woman in the photograph goes by Shannyn Sharyse Nara on Facebook and Twitter. She posted multiple videos of protests to Facebook beginning on Friday evening prior to her injury and subsequent hospitalization.

“As many of you saw last night I protested and at the end of one my videos you can see the aftermath of me taking a rubber bullet or something straight to the head,” Nara posted to Facebook Saturday morning. “My forehead has a chunk out of it and the doctors couldn’t even stitch it because of the debris. My right eye is swollen and took an hour before I could open it. Both of my eyes are messed up from debris that got trapped in them and I have to use numbing drops just to be able to open them.”

Nara also posted the pictures to Twitter, where they quickly spread. Patricia Arquette was one of thousands who responded to her tweets.

Protests have erupted in many major US cities after George Floyd died in police custody last week, with many turning violent as police escalated their responses. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared an 11 p.m. curfew in New York City Monday as a response.

Kardashian did not immediately return a request for comment.

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