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Now, she’s a mom on the edge, a woman resigned to life’s fringes, where she must tiptoe around live grenades so as not to make anything worse.

The operator flicked a switch to release a grenade, which exploded and tore into the legs of the 69-year-old pensioner.

Vera first ordered restrictions in July on the use of 40mm projectile launchers, tear gas, stun grenades and other crowd control weapons at street protests.

The officers then made an emergency entry to the property using flashbang grenades and detained Ley in a bedroom.

She reflects that her response — “There is nothing that comes to mind” — landed as if she’d “pulled the pin on a hand grenade.”