Posted on 10/28/2011 8:45:42 AM PDT by NoLibZone
OAKLAND, CALIF.—Anti-Wall Street demonstrators held vigils for an Iraq War veteran seriously injured during a protest clash with police in California as some occupy encampments came under growing pressure from authorities to abandon sites in parks and plazas.
A crowd of at least 1,000 people, many holding candles, gathered Thursday night in Oakland in honour of 24-year-old Scott Olsen, who is hospitalized with a fractured skull.
In Nashville, police cracked down overnight on an Occupy protest camp near the Capitol under a new policy setting a curfew for the complex. They moved in a little after 3 a.m. and arrested about 30; they later were released. About 20 protesters who stayed on a nearby sidewalk were not arrested and were still there later in the morning as state troopers stood guard at the steps to the Capitol.
In Britain, meanwhile, church and local government officials in London said Friday they would go to court to evict anti-capitalist protesters camped outside St. Paul's Cathedral, as the iconic church reopened after a weeklong closure
Protesters also held a vigil for Olsen in Las Vegas, which drew a handful of police officers. Afterward, protesters invited them back for a potluck dinner.
"We renewed our vow of nonviolence," organizer Sebring Frehner said.
The Marine veteran, who won medals in Iraq, has become a rallying cry for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators across the nation, with Twitter users and protest websites declaring, "We are all Scott Olsen."
Perhaps the bump on the noggin will convince him it is wiser to work within the party system, and accept the results of elections until the next election.
Unless he was just there for the chicks at the ruckus.
You say the canister hit his head? Oh, I thought this was a more serious injury. Never mind.
ihatethemarines dot com was not found. ? has it been shut down? is there any trace of it to use as proof ?
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