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This is what “fighting to protect your freedom” gets you?

By Shepherd Bliss | October 27, 2011

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Marine Scott Olsen made it through two tours in Iraq without an injury. But back home in the United States, while making  a transition to civilian life, he was critically wounded on Oct. 25 by police in riot gear as he and other unarmed citizens participated in the non-violent Occupy Oakland protest. Four-hundred officers mobilized from 17 jurisdictions around Oakland to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: activism, Occupy Wall Street, Police Brutality, US military, veterans

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