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Veteran injured by police at Occupy Oakland

Video is posted online that appears to show a member of Veterans for Peace being wounded by what was reportedly a non-lethal round fired by police during the Occupy Oakland protest in California.

Protesters from Occupy Oakland who posted video of Mr Scott Olsen online after he was injured said that the shooting happened at 4th Street and Broadway in Downtown Oakland during a march to reclaim a plaza which the group had been using as a base for two weeks until it was cleared by police.

Witness Jay Finneburgh said that Mr Olsen “was right behind me when he was hit in the head with a police projectile. he went down hard and did not get up.”

In the video Mr Olsen is unresponsive and bleeding from an apparent head wound as he is carried away by protesters, one of whom is screaming for a medic.

In another video, filmed from a different angle protesters who go to the aid of Mr Olsen as he lays unconscious on the ground also become a target for police tear gas canisters

Reports online suggest Mr Olsen was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland where he has serious injuries but is in a stable condition.

( via The Telegraph )