According to an e-mail I received from MoveOn.com on Wed. 10/26, on Tuesday evening 10/25 a marine veteran of the Iraq war, ScottOlsen was seriously injured by a supposedly 'nonlethal' bullet fired by an overzealous police presence at a peaceful Occupy Oakland protest in California. The projectile fractured Olsen's skull and left him in "critical conditon". In addition, when some protesters attempted to come to his aid, a thuggish policemen apparently deliberately hurled a "flash grenade" at the would-be good Samaritans. It doesn't surprise me that power crazed policemen would abuse their authority to try to quell a protest by unarmed nonviolent protesters expressing their rights of free speech and assembly against the status quo and the powers that be. I'd be willing to bet that if there were a bunch of Wall Street or politically connected white collar criminals, the police would handle them with kid-gloves or leave them alone entirely. Hopefully, the policemen who brutalize peaceful protesters in Oakland and elsewhere will lose their jobs or be prosecuted for misconduct, but I wouldn't count on it happening given other abuses that cops typically get away with in this society. In case you are interested, look up "Oakland Policeman Throws Flash Grenade Into Crowd" on Youtube to see this example of police brutality.
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