Donavan La Bella making 'remarkable' recovery from head injury after being shot by feds...

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Donavan La Bella making ‘remarkable’ recovery from head injury after being shot by feds with impact munition, sister says

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/07/donavan-la-bella-making-remarkable-recovery-from-head-injury-after-being-shot-by-feds-sister-says.html

Donavan La Bella remained hospitalized on Sunday with head injuries he suffered one week ago after he was shot with an impact munition by a federal law enforcement officer.

La Bella, 26, is being treated at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, where his sister, Stephanie Thornton, said Sunday that her brother has made remarkable improvement given the extent of his injuries. She said her brother gets “really bad headaches” but continues to recuperate.

“He is doing amazing,” said Thornton, who spoke from her brother’s hospital room. She said her brother is progressing “a lot better” than doctors expected.

A deputy U.S. Marshal with the agency’s tactical unit fired on La Bella during last Saturday night’s demonstration in front of the federal courthouse in downtown Portland.

A video of the incident shared on social media shows La Bella holding a speaker aloft with both hands while standing across the street from the courthouse between two parked cars. Federal officers throw a canister that lands at his feet, which he tosses away from him and back into the middle of the street, then raises the speaker again.

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He shouldn't have been hurt in the first place!