((MARINE SHOT IN THE HEAD)) BY POLICE!! ACLU of Northern California : When Will the Oakland Police Learn? Picture this.
In response to a peaceful anti-war protest, the Oakland Police Department uses large wooden bullets, sting ball grenades and shot-filled bean bags, as a result of which at least 58 protesters are injured. That was 2003, and unfortunately sounds eerily similar to reports of OPD's response to an Occupy Oakland demonstration yesterday evening, in which bean bags or other projectiles appear to have been fired directly into crowds and multiple rounds of tear gas were used. OPD's conduct in 2003 led to a class action lawsuit brought by the ACLU-NC, the National Lawyers Guild, ILWU, Local 10 and other civil rights attorneys. The lawsuit led to a historic settlement, with OPD adopting a Crowd Control Policy that strictly limits the use of force and prohibits the indiscriminate use of bean bags and other projectiles against crowds or passive resisters, except in unusual circumstances.
Learn more: ACLU and NLG letter to Oakland Police Department (Oct. 26, 2011) Occupy Oakland: Police Standoff & Brutal Assault, Tear Gas. Who shot Scott Olsen at Occupy Oakland? Update Oct. 12, 2012Oakland police chief wants two officers fired, 42 disciplined, for abuse of Occupy FEB 24, 2012: (Above) Police video used to identify Oakland police officer R.
Roche. Watch video: Video reveals San Francisco Sheriff officers on front line when Marine Scott Olsen was shot at Occupy Oakland. UPDATE: Video shows riot police firing shotguns where Marine Scott Olsen was shot: Update: Nov. 4, 2011: The following video shows the unidentified officer above moving down the police line when Scott Olsen was shot. Censored News San Francisco Sheriff's officers on center front police line, during shooting of Marine Scott Olsen have been verified, by way of an official list of officers.They are San Francisco Sheriff Emergency Services Unit (ESU) officers Scott Bergstresser, Ceciel Yambao and Hugo Aparicio. W5had.jpg (JPEG Image, 915x3050 pixels) - Scaled (21. Guardian: 2 Iraq war veteran injured after police clashes. A second Iraq war veteran has suffered serious injuries after clashes between police and Occupy movement protesters in Oakland.
Kayvan Sabehgi, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in intensive care with a lacerated spleen. He says he was beaten by police close to the Occupy Oakland camp, but despite suffering agonising pain, did not reach hospital until 18 hours later. Sabehgi, 32, is the second Iraq war veteran to be hospitalised following involvement in Oakland protests. Another protester, Scott Olsen, suffered a fractured skull on 25 October. On Wednesday night, police used teargas and non-lethal projectiles to drive back protesters following an attempt by the Occupy supporters to shut down the city of Oakland.
Sabehgi told the Guardian from hospital he was walking alone along 14th Street in central Oakland – away from the main area of clashes – when he was injured. "There was a group of police in front of me," he told the Guardian from his hospital bed. *PROOF that Oakland PD infiltrated #OWS. News From Underground is a daily e-news service run by Mark Crispin Miller, a Professor of Culture and Communication at NYU.
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They honored former Marine Scott Olsen and Army Ranger Kayvan Sabeghi. Both were severely injured in two recent confrontations with police in Oakland, but controversial new details are emerging about Olsen's military service and a website he may have run. Since his injury, Olsen brought international attention to the Occupy Oakland encampment. "He suffered a brain injury from a teargas projectile fired at him, and he's just now recovering his speech. " He was honored by Veteran's For Peace and the Occupy San Jose group on this Veterans Day. They point to a website, which is no longer active, called IHateTheMarineCorps.com. "I know Scott I met him between his first and second tours in Iraq and I tried to talk him out of going back a second time," said Johnson.
Diane Layfield participated in San Jose's Veterans Day Parade.