Slow Motion Video Of Police Throwing Flash Grenade Into Crowd Attending To Injured Marine Veteran Scott Olsen

The slow motion begins at the 45-second mark.

Veterans for Peace member Scott Olsen was wounded (skull fracture) by a less than lethal round fired by either San Francisco Sheriffs deputies or Palo Alto Police on October 25, 2011 at 14th Street and Broadway in downtown Oakland.

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More video of last night's police riot.

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[Dr. Pitchfork]

Wall Street Firms Spy on Protesters In Tax-Funded Center
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According to one person who has toured the center, there are three rows of computer workstations, with approximately two-thirds operated by non-NYPD personnel. The Chief-Leader, the weekly civil service newspaper, identified some of the outside entities that share the space: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, the Federal Reserve, the New York Stock Exchange. Others say most of the major Wall Street firms have an on-site representative.

[Sam]

You can see him go down at 0:22

[DailyBail]

Yep.

[Keelhaul]

Oh, so that's how you pigs want it? Fine, we can come up with some "flash bangs", too!

[stk33]

Maybe this is indeed what's required to wake up all those who insist on peaceful-only, legal-only measures. Throwing out corrupt establishment can't be peaceful, and if it is, it only means that it's either under establishment's control, or absolutely toothless.

[GUY Fawkes]

that piece of shit cop deserves a bullet right between the eyes

[Lars]

Gotta love the irony: our government and media were all blissing out over the "Arab Spring" and what a positive development it was for the people of the Arab world who had been crushed by dictators. Actions taken against protesters in these countries, even last year in Iran and more recently in Libya, caused our government to weigh in and denounce their governments as brutal, with an implicit threat that the US would move in to liberate them. Now that the "American Spring" has begun - look what they are doing to American citizens protesting against Banksters and our government!

They are marginalizing the protesters by characterizing them as trust fund hippies, when in fact they are diverse. As the movement grows, one day not far away, a police officer will see his friends and family in the crowd, and choose to fight them, or resist....

Also - what if this were a "Tea Party" event? Can you imagine the outrage if the police fired flash grenades on those "patriots"? All hell would break loose.

[mikebtko]

When they start doing that to the citizenry you know the country is finished...

[G Street]

Is there an expiration date on the right to assemble and petition for a redress of grievances? Has anyone in government, the media, or the controlling monied interests yet made any offer to redress our grievances? So far they've pretended we don't have legitimate grievances, and now try mischaracterizations and smears, but I haven't heard any recognition that it is government that is the problem, not the protestors. And it is government that can legally set about to rectify the situation - after all, if we had the power, why protest? Government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed. We consent under the rule of law, which is now not being applied at the top. The ball is in the government's court.

Yes Lars, the hypocrisy is off the charts.

[Texas Dar]

Oh, so that's how you pigs want it? Fine, we can come up with some "flash bangs", too!

NO.......................NO..................NO................NO.................NO.........................NO.................NO.NO.NO, You will play right into their hands. Thats the Dumb'est Thing I've heard, evan thoe it is what the bastards deserve........We do that and its all over.

Lets say Oakland did do that. "Worth'less-obama, will declare ML. At that point the cops in every town will use live amo, is that what you want......?

[Texas Dar]

Marine Veteran Scott Olsen ...........Oh,...

Now the goverment has the Marines involved. Hurt one, you hurt them all....!