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[pinboy3niner]

Scott Olsen?@solsen230

40 grams of lead @ 270 feet/second - less than lethal? #O25 #OO #OPD | http://www.baycitizen.org/occupy-movement/story/lawyer-scott-olsen-was-hit-bean-bag/ http://pic.twitter.com/vT18MmHM



10:13 PM - 14 Mar 12via web

Scott's comment referred to this news that broke Wednesday:

Lawyer: Scott Olsen Was Hit by Beanbag Round

“It looks like one officer intentionally shot him,” Olsen's attorney says

By Zoe Corneli on March 14, 2012 - 5:02 p.m. PDT


Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen was hit in the head with a beanbag round during an Occupy Oakland protest last fall, his attorney told The Bay Citizen Wednesday. The shot fractured Olsen's skull.

The question of how Olsen was injured, and by whom, has been the subject of intense speculation and an ongoing police department investigation.

Mark Martel, Olsen’s attorney, said the Oakland Police Department had given him the information a couple of weeks ago, but had not stated explicitly whether it was an Oakland police officer who fired the round.

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The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/17nus)

Related story at DKos:

Now We Know What Scott Olsen Was Shot With
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/15/1074549/-Now-We-Know-What-Scott-Olsen-Was-Shot-With-

[ellisonz]

1. People need to lose their jobs over what happened that night. n/t

[progressoid]

2. But on TV is just gives you a little bump on the head.

[gateley]

5. And pepper spray is just a vegetable product. nt

[ProfessionalLeftist]

3. I certainly hope he and his family get names and sue the crap

out of the individual officer who did this as well as the OPD.

[unionworks]

4. felony assault

Is more like it. Thanks Pinboy.

[gateley]

6. My God. I hope so fervently this officer and the department will be made to pay dearly. And maybe

be an eye opener to TPTB that our police departments should declare war on our citizens.

Thank you.

[pinboy3niner]

7. And remember: Police, Ambulances Stood Idle While Olsen Lay Wounded

County official warns Oakland still lacks emergency response plan to treat injured

By Matt Smith on November 1, 2011 - 8:53 p.m. PDT

...


Olsen, 24, was participating in protests on Oct. 25 when he was struck in the head by a projectile. Riot police stood within 20 yards of where he lay and ambulance crews waited on standby two blocks away. Yet Olsen received medical treatment only after protesters dragged him more than two blocks, put him into a car and drove him to Highland Hospital.

“I turned around and was yelling directly at the police: ‘I need help. This guy is hurt,’” said Claire Chadwick, a Berkeley canvasser who was the first to assist the motionless Olsen. “But none of them moved.”

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The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/13JcM)

[gateley]

8. Claire wasn't the only one screaming that he was hurt -- you could hear several people on the video

asking for help. Help? I still don't understand how ALL those officers were able to just stand there and do nothing! It would be an automatic reaction, I would think, to run to someone's aid -- and especially if you've been trained to handle emergencies.

I usually try to see the cops' side, too, and probably give them more leeway than is often warranted because they're just human beings in a tense, volatile situation, too, but to not help someone who was wounded so severely? A head wound? Unforgivable.

[KoKo]

9. Justice weeps eyes out over this.... Thanks for the Post.

It didn't seem worthwhile to the Corporate Media to follow up.

Thanks!

[pinboy3niner]

10. Now cross-posted in GD:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002430212