KeithOlbermann: Iraq Vet Hit In Police Assault On #OccupyOakland Has Fractured Skull, Friends Say

[Hissyspit]

@KeithOlbermann: Iraq vet hit in police assault on #OccupyOakland has fractured skull, friends say: http://t.co/s05F9DJw

Police used tear gas to disperse an Occupy Oakland march overnight, with reports of injuries from rubber bullets or baton rounds. Follow live developments here

Adam Gabbatt
guardian.co.uk, Wed 26 Oct 2011 20.12 BST
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3.10pm: Scott Olsen is in a "critical condition", in Highland hospital, a spokesman for the hospital has just confirmed to me. (We already knew he was there from the accounts below, but this is the first official confirmation).

2.24pm: I've just spoken to Keith Shannon, roommate of Scott Olsen, the Iraq veteran who is in hospital after apparently having been hit in the head by a police projectile.

Shannon said doctors told him Olsen has a "skull fracture and swelling of the brain". A neurosurgeon will assess Olsen later today to determine whether he needs surgery, Shannon said.

- snip -

Shannon said Olsen was hit in the head by a tear gas canister or smoke canister shot by a police officer. He said Olsen had a curved scar on his forehead consistent with a canister

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[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. But, but they refused to obey orders!!!!

:sarcasm:

Civil rights violations and not following procedure. But it is a-okay for the law and order crowd.

This will only further infuriate people.

[gratuitous]

7. Exactly, and why didn't these lawbreakers just turn themselves in?

:sarcasm:

Huh. This line of argument sounds even stupider than when I first heard it in April. I wouldn't have thought that possible, but the truth is undeniable.

[aquamarina]

3. Way to go OPD.

Way. To. Go.

:sarcasm:
:sarcasm:
:sarcasm:

[bobthedrummer]

4. An Iraq veteran comes home to paramilitarized extrajudicials aka "law enforcement"...

meanwhile the rule of law has been stabbed in the "heart" by TPTB.

RECALL SCOTT WALKER!

[Lucinda]

5. I just saw this on another thread. So freakin awful.

[myrna minx]

6. .

:cry:

[Tippy]

8. This shoud not have happened....Hope it is not as bad as it sounds...

[truedelphi]

40. This happened in a city where the police shoot at young adults who

Hop the turnstile to avoid paying their fares.

Really awful town. High crime rates, much oppression. Currently I don't think that the City of Oakland has a Police Chief, as the current one resigned about a week ago. He said there were eleven agency officials he had to answer for, and he couldn't do his job on account of that.

[EFerrari]

9. Shameful.

[workinclasszero]

10. Oh no....a vet that fought in Iraq comes home and might

...please no...die from the Oakland police attack.

This country is doomed unless occupy and other brave souls can turn it around.

Please pray for this man if you believe in in.

He was the guy that was down on the pavement when the cops threw a flashbang grenade right onto him as people were trying to help him, right?

[PatrynXX]

44. well hell you should even side with the cops even if you were on the right

you fucked with the wrong marine jack would say. course nowadays the military is left wing I suppose..

[RKP5637]

11. K&R !!! n/t

[Rex]

12. This is very bad, a proverbial powder-keg just waiting to go off.

Why am I not surprised that it is the pigs causing all the violence and not the protesters? The pigs paymasters must be happy...fucking pathetic. A vet comes home to a fascist nation, welcome home. :(

[Hutzpa]

13. K&R

This is what abuse of power looks like.

:kick:

[seacaves]

14. Another link...

http://current.com/community/93513164_occupy-oakland-police-brutality-gets-serious-scott-olsen-now-sedated-skull-fracture-and-swelling-of-the-brain.htm

[coalition_unwilling]

15. USA! USA! USA! :sarcasm: - n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Ask for investigation

http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/OccupyOaklandPoliceBrutality

[Hissyspit]

17. @KeithOlbermann: Hospital confirms: Iraq vet attacked by PD at #OccupyOakland "in critical condition

@KeithOlbermann: Hospital confirms: Iraq vet attacked by PD at #OccupyOakland "in critical condition" http://t.co/afWJFByP His roomate joins me tonight

[sarcasmo]

18. Fuel for the fire, thanks OPD you douche bags.

[valerief]

19. Accident happen in Fascist states. Whoops! nt

[coalition_unwilling]

20. The mods really should figure out a way to keep this thread at the

very top of GD and open up its editing window so that Hissyspit can update as appropriate.

It took TPTB some 6 years of anti-war protests before they killed the innocent at Kent State and Jackson State. Here it may have only taken them a month.

Unfriggin' believable.

[mod mom]

33. Fights for this country in Iraq, survives then hit by weapon exercising 1st ammendment

F-ING SHAMEFUL!

[seacaves]

21. Report updated to include photos, video of Scott Olsen, vet hit w police projectile

NatashaChart mt @allisonkilkenny Report updated to include photos, video of Scott Olsen, vet hit w police projectile bit.ly/tT5aYE @occupyoakland

Police Turn Oakland Into War Zone
By Allison Kilkenny

(Updated 4:24 p.m. ET)

Incredible footage emerged from downtown Oakland last night - not of basic law enforcement efforts to maintain public "health and safety" as the police have been claiming - but of a war zone in which police shot tear gas, bean bags, wooden dowels, flash grenades, and rubber bullets at protesters.

Rather than using the weaponry once in a final effort to subdue the crowd, officers reportedly used them over and over again in what @OccupyOakland describes as a "relentless" assault on the thousands of activists gathered near City Hall.

"The city remains committed to respecting free speech as well as maintaining the city's responsibility to protect public health and safety," Oakland police said in a statement Tuesday.

The "safety" concerns are the usual complaints levelled at the Occupy movements: sanitation issues, improper food storage, graffiti, litter, and vandalism, although OPD added accusations of fighting, assaults, and "threatening/intimidating behavior." Yes, you read that correctly. OPD is accusing the protesters of using "threatening/intimidating behavior."...................

http://www.inthesetimes.com/uprising/entry/12184/police_turn_oakland_into_war_zone/

[seacaves]

22. Photo of the vet....

Several others at site.

[Blue Owl]

23. So he goes overseas to spread freedom, and comes home to this

Jesus Fucking Christ.

[SammyWinstonJack]

26. I never want to hear some repug tea party POS claiming that Vets have been spit on by Libs.

Ever again!!! :grr:

[willhe]

38. how you love that

america is a hypocrite nation. this is what american democracy looks like.

[rhett o rick]

24. r&k

[Sherman A1]

25. K&R

:kick:

[bongbong]

27. One scenario

TPTB might very well WANT violence in the streets to enable the calling of Martial Law. Who knows anymore.

[snagglepuss]

59. That is not far-fetched at all. That exact scenerio is what happened at the

G20 meeting in Toronto. The first day a handful of anarchists were allowed free rein burning cars, looting, breaking windows while police stood back, hte next day hundreds were kettled and arrested. Allowing a few anarchists to riot was part of Harper's plan.

[bongbong]

62. Not sure

"handful of anarchists were allowed"

If they were truly allowed free rein, it's 90+% likely they were agents provocateurs. If they really gave free rein to ordinary people, that are mad enough to burn cars, TPTB are risking going over a Tipping Point. TPTB hate uncertainty at that level.

[snagglepuss]

64. You may have a point. I witnessed several 18-20 yr olds lob bricks through

plate glass windows and loot. I was just feet away from them. Although they bandannas over their mouths they did seem rather somewhat too clean cut and unperturbed to be anarchists. I was figuring spoiled rich kids posing as anarchists but perhaps they were paid. I called a police station to ask why there were absolutely no police anwhere on Toronto's main street and just yards away from police hdqts, the srgt I spoke to told me police were told to not interfere so their hands were tied.

[bongbong]

65. yes

I might have it bookmarked - but I've got thousands so it' be hard to find it right away :-) - that somebody found a signal that the agents provocateurs were using to identify each other; a certain color scarf or something like that.

[seacaves]

28. Veteran from Wisconsin injured at Occupy Oakland protest

Rather ironic in so many ways--the vet was from WI where I, and others like to think that we started the Revolution (and are still in it).







On Politics: Veteran from Wisconsin injured at Occupy Oakland protest


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An Iraq war veteran from Wisconsin was critically injured Tuesday night while at a protest in Oakland, California, one of the many demonstrations taking place around the country inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Scott Olsen, originally from Onalaska, Wis., is in critical condition at an Oakland hospital, said Josh Shepherd, a member of Veterans for Peace Chapter 69.

"There's bleeding on the brain, he had a seizure when he arrived at the hospital," Shepherd told the State Journal.....................

Read more: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/on-politics/article_4e2547f8-0019-11e1-891c-001cc4c002e0.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz1bvcm5IIn

[newspeak]

57. during the seattle WTO protests

where unions, nuns, families with children protested, the cops shot rubber bullets, indiscriminately at all. Rubber bullets just don't hurt, they injure. One doctor who had been shot, had a shattered jaw.

Friend who went was sick for days from the tear gas. I believe the police chief afterwards, resigned.

[flamingdem]

29. What did the Mayor of Oakland say?? nt

[montanto]

30. This makes me feel like throwing rocks.

[tavalon]

51. As much as you want to and I do too, this is the last thing any of us should do

The violence must all come from the powers that be and their henchmen. None returned, no matter how deserved. We fight back, we lose. We stand peacefully and we will win. It will take time and this isn't the first or last violence we'll have to endure. In the end, though, the powers that be will be the ones who didn't fight but just stood with peaceful determination.

[montanto]

55. I know it, but godammit it makes me furious.

I know this is my "impotent rage" stage, and I know I won't do it, but it makes me so mad, this case in particular, that I can hardly see straight.

[Fire Walk With Me]

31. K&R!

[democrank]

32. Absolutely shameful

[Aerows]

34. I weep for my country

This is horrific.

[fascisthunter]

35. those who ordered this crack-down are directly responsible

we should find out who that person(s) is.

[malaise]

36. Holy fugging shite

Lock up these thugs

[Enthusiast]

37. Kicked and recommended!

[FailureToCommunicate]

39. Another thread on the police action...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5038860

[Major Hogwash]

41. Senate Republicans are doing nothing to stop this violence against the people.

Because the cops didn't beat up on the tea party people last year!!!

[spin]

42. That's true, but my question is why are Senate Democrats not doing something? (n/t)

[glinda]

45. +1

[undergroundpanther]

47. because they've been bought,blackmailed are

cowards or are just playing good cop bad cop but are the same fascist greedy pos.

[AntiFascist]

43. Our troops stationed in the Middle East may very well face attacks...

from Anthrax manufactured in the US. Where there is massive wealth to be had, there can also be massive corruption. Troops are simply pawns to the 1%.

[undergroundpanther]

46. look like the piglets

got skeered,they are over-obedient fools,the truth will come out and those abusive pig fuckers will figure out how wrong they are,how they are being used as tools and will be screwed too,and how pathetically weak,rubber bullets on unarmed protestors doing stuff the richies whom they really serve don't like to hear.Fuck the pigs.You CANNOT HIDE by
censoring the media you oinkies. Ta'MaatSekhmet.

[BlueIris]

48. Just once, I would like a police officer at a demonstration to behave better than an animal.

I don't think it's too much to ask.

[Marrah_G]

49. I thought the police in DC were good at the Anti-war protests I atended

They seemed friendly, courteous and professional. I only saw one incident and some "pro-war" demonstrators attacked a kid taking pictures and the police broke up the fight and were going to arrest all of them but when everyone told the police the poor kid was the one attacked they listened and let him go. I always assumed they would better at this then any other city. Even when it cam time for arrests at the capitol they were very civil and it was all pretty order'y Those who wanted to get arrested hopped over the barricade then they picked up the "dead" IVAW soldiers and off they went to be processed for blocking the walkways.

[ScottLand]

50. K&R

[ChadwickHenryWard]

52. If I were a lawyer, I'd be sending that young man my business card right about now.

[civilisation]

54. He is in an induced coma,. due to brain swelling.

odds are not good for him. I suspect they will keep him in a coma and on a respirator as long as they can,. (they can say he is alive even if there is no brain function) if he should die,. the headlines will only grow. They know this. Keep an eye on this one.

[ChadwickHenryWard]

56. I was actually just wondering whether he was going to live or not.

The outlook doesn't seem to good. Either way, the city of Oakland is likely to find itself with a very large unexpected expense.

[backscatter712]

58. Actually, he was upgraded to fair condition today.

http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20111027/7645/occuppy-oakland-war-veteran-injured-skull-fracture-video.htm

I imagine he's got a long road ahead of him - he might yet have permanent damage and a monster medical bill that better be getting paid by the Oakland PD, but it looks like he's gonna live.

[JohnnyBoots]

53. No job, go to protest...wake up with huge medical debt and head trauma from

those sworn to 'protect and serve.' Welcome to 21st century America, where the peasants need to know their place.

[lark]

60. That's indeed the message they want us to learn

Be good quiet little serfs, obey your masters and you might get a crust of bread. Disobey in any way and you are dead.

I'm a huge pacifist, have always been very down on guns, but have to tell you I'm reconsidering the need for one or more of these. When chaos descends, and it looks to be coming, these could be helpful in keeping my family alive. I say that and get the shivers, because this is the last thing I want - but it is coming anyway. The 1% will have their way and we, the 99%, are very expendable.

[JohnnyBoots]

61. I feel the same way. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.

Boy Scouts motto...'Always be prepared.' I recommed a Remington 870 and a handgun in 9mm.

[bobthedrummer]

63. Scott Olsen is originally from Onalaska, WI-part of the LaCrosse metro area.

His mother still lives there, local tv reported she was on her way to Oakland. Two tours as a United States Marine Corps member in Iraq, part of a Veterans Against War/Iraq Veterans Against War contingent participating in democracy in Oakland. Looks like a deliberate, and close-up head shot (cannister, baton, beanbag) by a hotdog OPD renegade.
:cry:

RECALL SCOTT WALKER!