Kim Kardashian offers financial aid to protester hit by rubber bullet

Kim Kardashian has offered financial support to a young woman who was shot with a rubber bullet by law enforcement while protesting.

The reality television star replied to a public appeal on Twitter, after seeing a photograph of a protestor's facial injuries amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests in the US, following the death of George Floyd.

Floyd, an African-American man, was arrested by Minneapolis police on Monday, May 25th, for reportedly using a counterfeit $20 note in a store. While being detained, Derek Chauvin - a 19 year veteran of the force - knelt on his neck for eight minutes, which resulted in him losing consciousness, and later passing away.

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"This is heartbreaking and so disturbing," Kim 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."

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The woman in the image has been identified as Shannyn Sharyse Nara on Facebook and Twitter, and she posted several videos of the protests to Facebook on Friday evening, before she was hospitalized for her injuries.

"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," she wrote on Facebook on Saturday. "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."

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It is unclear whether Kim has managed to get in contact as of yet.

A list of resources to support the Black Lives Matter movement can be found, here.