Despite Iraq Vet’s Cracked Skull, DoJ Sees No Evil in Occupy Crackdown

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After Scott Olsen, a two-tour Iraq war veteran, suffered a skull fracture Tuesday when police shot Occupy Oakland protestors with rubber bullets and threw flash bang and tear gas grenades at them, you might think that the Justice Department would investigate.

After all, the Justice Department has the power and responsibility to investigate state and local police violations of Americans’ constitutional rights.

Sorry, Scott Olsen. Sorry, Occupy. No such luck.

The Obama Justice Department has not opened an investigation, spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa told Wired.

That’s despite Oakland having a long history of abusing protestors. Just last month, a federal judge hinted that he would take over the department for failing to rein in rogue policing practices identified in a consent decree from 2003 that the department has failed to obey. The National Lawyers Guild contends police violated that order again Tuesday.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/doj-occupy-crackdown/

Of course not. They are too busy going after whisle-blowers and medical marijuana people.

[Trillo]

1. Meawhile, "TSA officer faces dismissal over 'get your freak on, girl' note in luggage"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x5041733

Seems kind of mixed up.

[HereSince1628]

2. It's not mixed up at all

More than 12% of the TSA administration thinks that the agency needs to clean up its act.

Less than 12% (this can and will change) of the DOJ thinks that Oakland police department or other US police departments need to clean up its/their act.

As soon as 12% of the DOJ or police departments think that there is a problem, the problem will be addressed.

Until then, sadly, there are still many more heads that will be cracked. This is the nature of challenging an entrenched status quo. Demands for change are by definition threatening, and insistence for change will be resisted.

[Major Hogwash]

3. Why isn't the California Attorney General looking into it?

Or it is too politically sensitive?

[indepat]

4. Is the DOJ trying to make Ashcroft, Gonzales, and Mukasey look really

good in comparison? :shrug: :patriot: