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71. "Nearly killed Scott Olsen"?

Tue May 29, 2012, 05:33 PM

May 2012

Ah, that's what you paragraphs were leading up to, and were referring to.

The guy got hit in the head, minor skull fracture, no long term physical damage. I realize he's a bit of a media darling, but lets not pretend his injuries were life threatening, or that he is some kind of martyr.

A crowd was given a legitimate order to disperse and leave the street.

He did not.

He got knocked in the head somehow, and crumpled, video suggests a dispersal device hit him.

A group rushed to check on him, and got a gasbang dispersal device lobbed into them.

He eventually got picked up, went to the hospital, and recovered fine, he had a concussion and skull fracture, no permanent physical injury, nothing life threatening about it, it's a guy who got hit in the head and fell down.

Hang all the florid and laudatory words on it that you want, I'm glad a volunteer killer-for-money changed his ways, sad that he got a knock to the head, glad that he's totally fine now.

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