The Ironies of Oakland
Oakland Police Violated 2004 Limiting Use of Militarized Weapons to Disperse Crowds
Written by Mark Karlin, Editor of Buzzflash at Truthout.
As the medical condition of Marine Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen appears to haveimproved, he is becoming the Neda Agha-Soltan – the martyr of the Iranian Green Revolution – of the “Occupy” struggle for economic justice.
What occurred this week in Oakland – including the wounding of Olsen – shouldn’t have happened. In June of 2004, the Oakland Police Department reached an agreement to refrain from using the kind of bloody and
