Video Of The Moment Scott Olsen Was Shot In The Face By Oakland Cops

[rainbowgemyni]

I hope Scott will be okay. This is has been ugly by the police, but things are escalating at an alarming rate. The police and the powers that be, had also better take heed... if he dies, Scott will become a martyr. There will no stopping the movement after the first life is taken.

[ted456ify]

Do you guys want to go back in time and tell the founders of this country that they are protesting illegaly and that they should just shut up. Then stop saying "ow they should have left" to the people protesting now.

[ROCKSTARVOCALIST]

If they didn't want to get tear gased they should have used a fleeting thing called COMMON SENSE and heeded the warnings by police to dispurse and leave the area. Each protester made the choice to stay, ignoring those orders. Some got hurt. Some got raped. Some broke out windows, some set fires, and some painted graphitti. Some were arrested. What was accomplished? Nothing except proving that less than 1% of the population showed up to occupy. So in fact they are not the 99% they are the .001%

[ytgv3fc7]

Those police officers are GUILTY OF HIGH TREASON and ATTEMPTED MURDER. They should face convictions and sentences ranging from 20 years in prison to EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD.

[eeinc]

This was wrong period. Allegations of his history are irrelevant. The man was just standing there. Excessive use of force, period.

[CaveVern]

Just look how dangerous he was acting

[woodycoat]

0:16 flagrant violation of UCMJ. Court Martial required.

[kertbert1]

When the police officer tossed that explosive into the group helping the wounded Vet I just couldn't believe it! He should be made an example of!!! I'm Canadian but that reminded me of " shooting of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970. The guardsmen fired 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others." Looks like the police are trying to insight a riot here. This action only makes normal people hate!

[DeltaMinus]

Jesus, that's cold . . . a guy's down with a head wound, people come to help him and YOU DROP ANOTHER CANISTER RIGHT BESIDE HIM!?!?!? Evil, evil, evil . . .

[MsSarahJ56]

POLICE ARE ACTING IN DISGUSTING WAYS - police as a whole have become a disgrace to america and its people

I think the video of the War Vet who had recently returned from War and went to visit the Occupy Wall Street NY best sums it up. He is from real war (as unjust as that war may be) he has seen real need for defence - and he just starts Going Off on the police for acting like they are fighting militants across seas when they are looking in the eyes of the americans they swore to protect

[VT452]

you can see Scott Olsen go down at 1:18 . look for the girl in the orange shirt and look directly to her left. you see him hit the ground. i pray for his recovery.

[jskaggs2008]

LOL. Now this idiot has to find a new house.

[Pantagruella]

It took a lot of courage to just stand there before the riot police. I guess the last big protest was in 1968. The politicians called the protesters bums. I don't think we have learned anything from history since.

[niceguy1060]

COPS BOTHER ME !

[christyc463]

breaks my heart every time i watch this.

[VegasAlien]

Don't throw shit at cops.

[cafesanslait]

@VegasAlien

Why not? They throw plenty of crap at us.

For those who don't know it yet, here is the name

and address of the guy who shot Scott Olsen at

close range in the head with a gas canister.

Scott Bergstresser

1579 Sycamore Drive

Oakley, California 94561

[cafesanslait]

For those who don't know it yet, here is the name and address of the guy who shot Scott Olsen at close range in the head with a gas canister.

Scott Bergstresser

1579 Sycamore Drive

Oakley, California 94561

[earthresonance]

I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!!!!

[Tonykaos]

yeah! for freedumb!

[joetalk100]

we should hoot back

[xiolaskye]

I'm so SORRY, Scott Olsen! I hope one day you can forgive us and our "enemies" for doing this to you! We're going to keep MARCHING. And one day you will be proud of us! "God Save America!"

[snowbeach1981]

Eye for eye.

[shagilla]

so what papa obama gonna do now? is he gonna ask NATO to bomb the shit out the american government for assaulting young rebels rallying for change of policy, like he did it with Libya? oh, no... that would be a suicidal move :)

[cozee75]

You guys are missing it. He got shot in the back of the head by someone wearing shorts and sandals from which this attack emanated, and in full view of 30 cops. I'm sure they're cooperating with elements of homeland security to ascertain this individual's identity. Terrorists are so fucking stupid.

[Virgo78911]

@cozee75 How do you know this?

[troydhansen]

wait till more veterans and the the Oakland chapter of the Hell'sAngels show up next week,gonna be very bad for the Oakland popo's.

[ChrisnStarry]

We would like to commend the uniformed Navy representative!!! Thank you, Yah bless you, & yours.

[gotitans999]

If you are a police officer or in the armed services you are being bought by the system.  Get out of it! Return your badge and be with the people instead of being bought from the inside. Cowards.

[MakesMeAngry]

It was attempted murder. The corporate fascist pigs tried to murder him.

[mackafixer]

FUCKIN PIG SCUM.YOUR DAY IS COMING!!!

[adrianadio]

Watching this must makes me more sad and angry deep inside:/

[truthtoknow]

OMG America what have you become!!!

[chekkitProductions]

Whoever threw the tear gas canister back at the police is badass.

[unabonger777]

at :50 it looks like one of the protestors picked up a tear gas canister and threw it back at the police.

[electbassplayer24]

America once again is fast becoming a police state! Our government is doing to it's people what we think only happens in third world countries! The cop that savagely attacked our young Marine Veteran should be immediately removed from the police force! I truly hope some of the protestors get his name and track him down, make sure that he is never again able to hurt another American citizen and by what ever means that may take! A speedy recovery to you dear Scott!

[HippieJimi]

BULLIES WITH BADGES...

[truthersunited333]

P.S. get ready!

[truthersunited333]

Fucking A its coming and most people are not ready for what is about to come! Dam I this corrupt shit will I ever see this on T.V. "FUCK NO" all I see is stupid bullshit or celebratory news or the media blaming someone small for the deficit. Haha lets take about the Trillions of dollars unaccounted for from the Pentagon!

[kelvinjavier]

To the mayor of Oakland, your cops just cost the city millions of dollars in law suits. Think about that when you hire pig cops.

[hstone39]

Start feeling sorry for this country.

[000deadcalm000]

@hstone39 I felt sorry for the US ten years ago....now I am just disgusted at what it has become. After all the death and destruction you have visited on people all over the world, as well as dishonoring the men and women that put their lives on the line for your nation....you deserve no pity...only contempt.

[rolovolo]

good conclusions, sure internal affairs will conclude the same.

A criminal law suit is immediately granted, and the cop and his

bosses all the may to the mayor go to jail for the criminal acts.

[downwindspiral]

you got it right.

[rolovolo]

Those are the employees, go after the bosses It's time to take care of the bankers, without violence, peacefully, just hang them politely from nice trees..... no blood necessary. A cancer should not be "fixed" Eradicate  the FED from its roots. Occupy the planet! Take all the money out of your bank (while you still can AND while it still holds some value). Buy food, silver and gold, prices will go over 300/5000 shortly after TSHTF...

[rolovolo]

if they are afraid the expensive tax payer paid riot police shields,

armors and helmets can be breached by plastic bottles...

they should either think in switching equipment provider company,

or be treated by a psychiatrist....

[apocolypse1022]

That policeman should be identified for throwing that grenade at the injured and the people trying to help....he needs to lose his job and be tried in a court of law.

If the Oakland PD has any form of dignity left, they need to step up and turn that asshole cop over for investigation. Flash Bang grenades can kill someone when used at that distance, he knows it. Its a criminal offense.

[Acheyltus]

Life is rapidly taking on the form of a folk ballad...

[Everclearish]

People MUST read about our founding fathers and support the Constitution because it is our shield and sword. Without the Constitution we are nothing but slaves. Read about it and use it. It was made for fighting a tyrannical government. The people that are trying to destroy this nation know that they cannot fight against the words of the founding fathers and the Constitution. USE IT or LOSE IT.

[Be4Peace2]

Who's the Mayor of Oakland? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?

[chadberry75]

@Be4Peace2 NO..BUT HE PROBABLY DO A BETTER JOB...

[MrTear3]

Well, that was attempted murder....

[kydenj28]

Call Libya maybe they need to intervine in our Government opperations like we intervined in their country. Oh yeah Humanitarian Aid! LMAO

[jeremiahsineiii]

Ballistics should be able to work this one out.

[knowthingman]

shooting people in the head with tear gas canisters is an almost daily occurrence in occupied gaza.

it also happens to be considered a war crime to *intentionally* shoot unarmed civilians at point blank range with tear gas canisters.

apparently *some* governments are above international law. unless of course you think that cop will swing from the end of a nuremburg rope for his CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.

lol, yeah, he'll probably get suspended...WITH pay (vacation?)

THEY. HATE. YOU.

[PANWO762]

2nd amendment.........

[Aws8819]

You people are idiots They Don't respect you, Take your money, Harass you, Beat you down, & now SHOOT YOU!!?? & the best thing you can hope for is some Maine stream media picks it up??

Look just be Honest with your self's for Just one Minute And ask your Self this One Question?

ARE YOU A FREE INDIVIDUAL?

Last I checked Free men don't get Slapped around let alone shot in the face & when you try to help you get a bomb thrown at you. sounds like they got you scared like a Slave.

[miketv]

@Aws8819 what they don't understand: war is war, whether you're fighting for profit or peace.

[mypassportpicsux]

@Aws8819 For your sake and our eyes, please go back to school.

[helterskelter2005]

@Aws8819 "Maine stream"? Really? We're hoping the 23rd state in the Union will take notice? And "your self's"? Could you maybe be quiet and let someone with a college education speak for the movement?

[rdicko86]

in a normal world this would be considered an act of war..... know your enemy

[IDontWantYourCereal]

Fuck what has become of the united states.

[ogrish84]

Scott Olsen should have the right to shoot the Pig that shot him in the head.

[mmedefarge]

The police never seem to catch on that there is nearly ALWAYS someone or something filming them when they pull this crap. Again, all police credibility went out the window.

[tylerch94]

Pigs

[nitdiver5]

This is sick and sad. No tears if that cop dies a painful death. But understand the US is lost. The world is lost. Very soon the antichrist will rise and confirm the covenant in Daniel 9:27 giving Jerusalem to the Palestinians and giving the Jews the right to build their last temple. This is what we call the two state solution and it can be found in Revelation 11:1-2. The Rapture of the church is imminent. This world is passing away, but you dont have to pass away with it.

[KRUSTYskates]

FOX tried to pin it on the protesters that THEY hit him with a bottle/rock

[LIBERTASetVERITA5]

There's a reason that police nowadays looks like Star Wars stormtrooopers.

But don't forget: "CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN"

So. sheeple go and vote for Obama in 2012!

No new jobs for Blacks, but 95% Black vote.

No new jobs at all.

[DoctorCataclysm]

@LIBERTASetVERITA5 Yeah, and for the past two years the GOP has put through tons of jobs legislation amirite?

[LIBERTASetVERITA5]

@DoctorCataclysm

The GOP currently does not "occupy";-) the presidency.

OBAMA DOES! Your Nobel Peace Prize GOD!

Besides that, I give chicken shit for the NeoCohens.

Demorats and Repooplicans are two sides of the same pile of shit.

[LIBERTASetVERITA5]

@DoctorCataclysm

As it is in every FKN Western country!

Conservatives and liberals are two wings of the same vulture.

[NinjaKingRevival]

BOOM HEADSHOT!

I cant wait until an ice storm hits. see how long these idiots "protest" then.

and fwiw he fell and he hit his head falling while in lost in the realm of drugs. just look at him. he looked like he was stoned on meth or something before hand. unless Iraq fucked him up.

[darksense36]

@NinjaKingRevival Go away troll!

[NinjaKingRevival]

@darksense36 =/

I fear milk. +1 Internets to you for seeing through my ploy. Its funny to say shit and see people pile on rage

[ogrish84]

@NinjaKingRevival You sound like a drug fiend retard that lives in your mother's basement. HA-HA!

[NinjaKingRevival]

@ogrish84 :(

thats fucked up man.

[ogrish84]

@NinjaKingRevival You sound like a drug fiend retard that lives in your mother's basement. HA-HA!

[NorthsideEtown]

omfg what is wrong with this world

[Jenbug123]

I cant believe they still tried to harm the protesters with a man on the floor clearly hurt.

[Kallister18]

It doesn't look like that many cops. The protesters should have rushed them in mass and leaped over that fence and given them what they had coming. Regular guys dressed up in black, hiding behind their little barricade and thinking that we are the enemy.

[hospitaler808]

ouches

[thefranciswatts]

The cops take video too. I wonder if they caught the actual event on tape? Someone should do a FOIA request...oh that's right, the tape doesn't exist.

[MultiHollywoodYoutub]

FUCK THE POLICE!!!! TRY SHOOTING A CANISTER IN MY FACE AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS YOU PIECES OF SHIT!!!! OWS WILL BE HEARD!!!!!

[TheAsfaloth]

The guy was very brave to stand there facing the police as they opened up on the crowd, the Police there just did more to aid the world wide movement than any peaceful person could.

[HeavyMetalPedal]

There is no America anymore...

[TheAsfaloth]

The only thing I saw protesters throwing were the gas cannisters back to the police, strange I have heard grand tales of paint, rocks, bottles.

[MFchris1]

@TheAsfaloth and kitchen utensils 

[waltermh111]

@TheAsfaloth whats pitiful is the police are in riot gear with helmets and protective gear for many/most of the police.

None of those things really would have hurt the police and the few people doing the acts could have easily been singled out if the police worked with the citizens seeing as with our own eyes we know it was a peceful protest.

Point being the police were in 0 danger from those items.

[JustinLB82]

At the:47 mark you see a flash and then at :48 you hear 2 bangs, the same 2 bangs you hear at :52/:53 followed by the same flash at :56 as :47. At 1:18 after the narrator says the word "force," you hear the same 2 bangs again at 1:19 as at :48 and :52/:53 followed by Olsen falling between the girl in orange and the guy with the half zipped/buttoned black jacket wearing a backpack at the same 1:19 mark. It doesn't appear he was struck, but smashed his face off the ground during his fall.

[JusticePetitioner]

@JustinLB82 he dropped w/ dead weight..something hit him before he went down.

[JustinLB82]

@JusticePetitioner It doesn't appear that way in the video. There was a flash bang on the ground right next to his vicinity, unless he was hit with a rubber bullet/bean bag.

[JusticePetitioner]

@JustinLB82 I dont know who you are looking at but after the explosion at 1:18 you can see him just drop.. He didnt 'fall' he didnt trip.. he dropped w/ dead weight. What hit him, I dont know, but something did.

[JustinLB82]

@JusticePetitioner You don't have to be hit with a projectile in order to fall like dead weight. You can trip, be tripped, pushed or shoved etc and achieve a dead weight fall. All that's required is that you well, fall, as a result of one thing or another. He certainly was not hit with a tear gas canister or a direct flash bang to the face as some are alleging. He was in a scramble of folk running from a flash bang right next to him/them, then he fell, as a result of one thing, or another.

[kydenj28]

@JustinLB82 You must be NYPD

[JustinLB82]

@kydenj28 lol Try actually analyzing the situation and the video a few times over without any bias against the police. Don't judge the situation as a whole, but in particular if he fell as a result of a tear gas canister/flash bang to the face. That's the accusation I'm talking about here, nothing else.

[JusticePetitioner]

@JustinLB82 Most conscious people will try to stop their fall.

[JustinLB82]

@JusticePetitioner  I agree. However, I would personally conclude that most people who have fell, haven't fallen just after experiencing a flash/stun grenade within a few feet of their location. That's an entirely different experience altogether, I'm almost sure of it.

[JusticePetitioner]

@JustinLB82 I guess you didnt see the girl fall after having the flash bomb go off in her face. She had help from the curb but, still was conscious enough to stop her fall.

[JustinLB82]

@JusticePetitioner Well it's a good thing everyone's shock/pain threshold is exactly the same, otherwise you'd have no point...

[JusticePetitioner]

@JustinLB82 I think I have a valid point. She tried to stop her fall, he didnt. Common sense will tell you one was conscious when they went down, one wasnt.

[JustinLB82]

@JusticePetitioner Just like you don't have to be hit with a projectile, you don't have to lack consciousness to achieve a dead weight fall. The dead weight fall is not evidence of having being hit by a projectile nor is it evidence of unconsciousness. That's what I mean by there being no point there. The video does not show Mr.Olsen being struck by a tear gas canister or flash/stun grenade to the face that knocked him down as alleged. It appears he smashed his face on the ground after he fell.

[mythicc]

@JustinLB82 Either way, the police are directly responsible for his injury, because prior to that moment it was peaceful. Surely, these police officers who are out there causing this havoc must realize that their forceful presence invites the confrontation and will continue to do so. But then again, that is the point of a police state, is it not? There's absolutely no excuse for how the police are behaving, but if they continue as they are, things are going to get worse.

[JustinLB82]

@mythicc Yeah the police are responsible for his injuries as a result of destabilizing an otherwise peaceful protest and their actions certainly will incite more violence out of the subsequent chaos they create. It will get a lot worse. I don't believe the police, street cops in general, are in favor of inciting the violence themselves, I think they're as much a pawn in the game as the protesters are. Half them, the cops, are too stupid too realize they're being set up on a chess board. lol

[JRMCNEA]

@JustinLB82 I don't think he was hit with a teargas canister. I think he was shot in the face with a rubber bullet as it was previously reported. The Poilice claim they didn't use rubber bullets but protesters say they where chot with them have the marks for them and some say they kept them. @1:18 you see him get hit and fall over but there is no gas trail or any canister around him after he falls. It is fucked up that people rush in to help someone who is down and they stun grenade them.

[JustinLB82]

@JRMCNEA Yeah that was messed up they threw that flash/stun grenade at the people coming to his aid.

[MrMnmn911]

I don't think he "just" fell. I don't even seem him fall. All the facts are not in yet. Good job attempting to analyze the video though. Against all police regulations to toss a tear gas canister into a group of people attempting to assist a fallen citizen. I'm reading reports of bottles being thrown at police by the protesters but I haven't seen any police video (or nearby surveillance video) showing this. This is not good no matter who's to blame.

[icar6]

@JustinLB82 : as a veteran it is nice to see someone being skeptical when a video claims to show something it does not. I looked at the ariel footage looking for that flashbang to the head. It is uncut footage and does not show him getting hit by anything. Rather looking at it over and over it looks like he started to run and another protester hit him, by accident. I'm not saying for sure what happened, but this video here is clearly edited. If the police did hit him the truth will come out.

[JustinLB82]

@icar6 Thank you, I have no doubt that the police used excessive force in general, but in this specific case, I think the facts have gotten twisted for dramatic effect, which is unnecessary, considering the dramatics already employed by the police. I really think the majority of his injuries came from him smashing his head off the ground after he fell, then of course there was the flash.stun grenade thrown into the crowd that came to aid while he was down. I don't believe he was shot in the face

[JRMCNEA]

oh thats the "Hazardous Materials" they where talking about. The protesters threw their own tear gas back at them.

[zaggy3110]

So US citizens may kill and die for the US-Elite as soldiers but they aren't allowed to make use of their basic civil rights

[pipkguitar]

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE. Whether you agree with the concept of Occupy or not, you should fight like heck for their right to protest. The Police State is increasing in power daily. Fight tyranny

[Everclearish]

@pipkguitar WOW! Someone actually reads the founding fathers advise. I am very proud of you! I'm a disabled vet and I salute YOU!

[fuzzjunky]

as long as we have spineless police who can shoot their own people things are all fukked up

[Blake00010001]

we all need to support occupy 99% of 7 Billion is allot of people, its time for change, its time to do thing different before its 2 late. Every day we kill! we kill our people, our animals, our planet.

We havde the technology its time to use it to better this world.

[JJbones88]

They done fucked up now. See almost all the cops @ these Occupy protests have been brutal, much more than necessary. Now they hit a Veteran, and not an old one either, and fresh Veteran. That's the type of thing people need to get upset about to help sway towards the 99% stance. Sad but true, I wish Olsen and his family well, however he inadvertently just helped this movement big time.

[rainwilds]

Shocking!

[Atlantafried]

Not one picture of a protester throwing rocks or bottles. The only evidence they have is some ding-bat girl on MSNBC that said bottles were thrown, but she probably wasn't a real protester anyway.

[trancewe]

The cowardly bastard turns and looks away after lobbing, underhand, whatever 'non-lethal' munition that was. He's tough enough to intentionality injure someone, but isn't man enough to watch.

[compendiumgravemind]

i hope all those police are standing in a a pretty little line like that when someone startsto shoot back. it will save ammo.

[AGodlessHeathen]

i hope those that are responsible for these atrocities are held accountable i hope they loose there jobs for that absolutely disgraceful shooting at a veteran who has served to protect his country

[DiceWarwick]

this needs to go to the top of You Tube, or any video showing this gross act of brutality on a Veteran.

[chocomalk]

This video was marked as "watched"...

Fuck You YouTube!

[kicktroolinface]

Police are under satan`s control, i bet most if not all have a RIDF Chip total demonic force

[plking1]

TWITTER = TheRealSunGod

[rumpole33]

At about 1:26 or so, you can see Scott fall down.

Then you can see one of the protesters turn around and ask the cops to help him.

Then right after the crowd clears him after one explosion, you can see another canister bounce towards him.

[MOPEDBRAD]

"If you do not move, chemical agents will be used"......

It's funny that they weren't telling people to stop throwing things..... considering that was alledgedly why they deployed tear gas.

[crinoid1919]

we are liveing the nightmare

[bdyan1]

yet the US condemn china for what happened at tiananmen lol

[lighttree2012]

@bdyan1 Thank you!! To me it's the same thing!!

[dafttool]

Good get, Moxie. Hope the mainstream media picks it up.

[lSeKToRl]

@dafttool It's up on Occupy dot org or something

[slhines7]

@dafttool I agree with you as well. Thanks Moxy!

[Garlannd]

@dafttool

The soup wont. They'll alleg it was a protestor.

[MTheory77]

thanks for the upload, truth is the truth, no matter how tough it may be to see sometimes... thank you brother.

Namaste

[valhala56]

damn scumbag pigs, shooting the people trying to rescue and injured person. have they NO SHAME?

[IdarkphoenixI]

Some say the protesters were violent to the police (throwing paint, stone etc...)

But honestly, what else could you expect when your faces with, Im guessing over 100 riot-police in full body armour, carrying extremely dangerous (possibly lethal in Scots Olsens case) weapons. I'd be pretty scared if i were there, and scared people tend to react very 'unpredictably'.

You'd assume any competant police crew would do everything possible to avoid people from becomming unpredictable...

[deepwater1974]

Servicemen in uniform..pigs shoot one in the head and then try and keep others from helping him. Its time we show those pigs who is boss.

[MrDubDisciple]

Not sure if its mate but definitely check.