Oakland to pay Iraq War vet $4.5 million for Occupy shooting

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OAKLAND -- An Iraq War veteran, whose shooting by police during a 2011 Occupy Oakland demonstration, galvanized a protest movement that flared for months, will receive a $4.5 million settlement from the city.

Scott Olsen, 26, suffered a fractured skull and brain damage when he was struck in the head by a lead-filled bean bag fired by an Oakland police officer.

The shooting occurred during an Oct. 25, 2011 nighttime demonstration at Frank Ogawa Plaza outside Oakland City Hall where hundreds of people had amassed to protest the city's evacuation of an Occupy encampment from the plaza earlier that day.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_25392114/oakland-pay-iraq-war-vet-4-5-million

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1. K & R

Good news

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2. This was such a tragedy. Someone spends years

Fighting a war that was to bring "our style of democracy" to third world people.

And he figures out the weirdness of that. Then on his return to the States, at the Occupy rally, he is shot by Oakland Police. (Actually hit in head with teargas cannister.) The video was scary. The Oakland police had no reason to be so aggressive.

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4. They took one of theirs and singlehandedly re-programmed him

like V for Vendetta.

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3. "Lead-filled bean bag"...

That seems contradictory...