As Paul Harvey used to say......here's the REST of the story.
Scott Olsen is an Onalaska (WI) native who got a bit of attention because he was injured in an #Occupy Oakland (CA) demonstration. Seriously injured.
The Oakland cop-shop is under pressure--deservedly--to determine how this happened. Their take: the review of the video makes it entirely possible that Olsen was injured by something thrown AT the cops FROM the crowd of demonstrators. It's not a settled issue.
But that's not all. The ex-Marine hates the Corps--and the Jooooooos, too.
Too bad.
A new low--using a man who got hit in the frickin' head as a cause célèbre for the right's agenda to link a protest movement simply organized and inspired by anarchists who desire to ruin our country.
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Zorro