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Tweet from Scott Olsen [View all]
Scott Olsen@solsen230
40 grams of lead @ 270 feet/second - less than lethal? #O25 #OO #OPD | http://www.baycitizen.org/occupy-movement/story/lawyer-scott-olsen-was-hit-bean-bag/ http://pic.twitter.com/vT18MmHM
10:13 PM - 14 Mar 12via web
40 grams of lead @ 270 feet/second - less than lethal? #O25 #OO #OPD | http://www.baycitizen.org/occupy-movement/story/lawyer-scott-olsen-was-hit-bean-bag/ http://pic.twitter.com/vT18MmHM
10:13 PM - 14 Mar 12via web
Scott's comment referred to this news that broke Wednesday:
Lawyer: Scott Olsen Was Hit by Beanbag Round
“It looks like one officer intentionally shot him,” Olsen's attorney says
By Zoe Corneli on March 14, 2012 - 5:02 p.m. PDT
Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen was hit in the head with a beanbag round during an Occupy Oakland protest last fall, his attorney told The Bay Citizen Wednesday. The shot fractured Olsen's skull.
The question of how Olsen was injured, and by whom, has been the subject of intense speculation and an ongoing police department investigation.
Mark Martel, Olsen’s attorney, said the Oakland Police Department had given him the information a couple of weeks ago, but had not stated explicitly whether it was an Oakland police officer who fired the round.
...
The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/17nus)
“It looks like one officer intentionally shot him,” Olsen's attorney says
By Zoe Corneli on March 14, 2012 - 5:02 p.m. PDT
Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen was hit in the head with a beanbag round during an Occupy Oakland protest last fall, his attorney told The Bay Citizen Wednesday. The shot fractured Olsen's skull.
The question of how Olsen was injured, and by whom, has been the subject of intense speculation and an ongoing police department investigation.
Mark Martel, Olsen’s attorney, said the Oakland Police Department had given him the information a couple of weeks ago, but had not stated explicitly whether it was an Oakland police officer who fired the round.
...
The Bay Citizen (http://s.tt/17nus)
Related story at DKos:
Now We Know What Scott Olsen Was Shot With
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/15/1074549/-Now-We-Know-What-Scott-Olsen-Was-Shot-With-
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