Grrr... 'Occupy Oakland: Second Iraq War Veteran Injured After Police Clashes' - UKGuardian

[WillyT]

Occupy Oakland: second Iraq war veteran injured after police clashes
Kayvan Sabehgi in intensive care with a lacerated spleen after protests in Oakland, a week after Scott Olsen was hurt. He says police beat him with batons
Adam Gabbatt - guardian.co.uk
Friday 4 November 2011 15.26 EDT


Police used teargas to drive back protesters following an attempt by the Occupy supporters to shut down the city of Oakland. Photograph: Noah Berger/AP

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A second Iraq war veteran has suffered serious injuries after clashes between police and Occupy movement protesters in Oakland. Kayvan Sabehgi, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in intensive care with a lacerated spleen. He says he was beaten by police close to the Occupy Oakland camp, but despite suffering agonising pain, did not reach hospital until 18 hours later.

Sabehgi, 32, is the second Iraq war veteran to be hospitalised following involvement in Oakland protests. Another protester, Scott Olsen, suffered a fractured skull on 25 October. On Wednesday night, police used teargas and non-lethal projectiles to drive back protesters following an attempt by the Occupy supporters to shut down the city of Oakland. Sabehgi told the Guardian from hospital he was walking alone along 14th Street in central Oakland – away from the main area of clashes – when he was injured.

"There was a group of police in front of me," he told the Guardian from his hospital bed. "They told me to move, but I was like: 'Move to where?' There was nowhere to move. "Then they lined up in front of me. I was talking to one of them, saying 'Why are you doing this?' when one moved forward and hit me in my arm and legs and back with his baton. Then three or four cops tackled me and arrested me."

Sabeghi, who left the army in 2007 and now part-owns a small bar-restaurant in El Cerrito, about 10 miles north of Oakland, said he was handcuffed and placed in a police van for three hours before being taken to jail. By the time he got there he was in "unbelievable pain". He said: "My stomach was really hurting, and it got worse to the point where I couldn't stand up. I was on my hands and knees and crawled over the cell door to call for help."

A nurse was called and recommended Sabehgi take a suppository, but he said he "didn't want to take it". He was allowed to "crawl" to another cell to use the toilet, but said it was clogged. "I was vomiting and had diarrhoea," Sabehgi said. "I just lay there in pain for hours." Sabehgi's bail was posted in the mid-afternoon, but he said he was unable to leave his cell because of the pain. The cell door was closed, and he remained on the floor until 6pm, when an ambulance was called.

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More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/04/occupy-oakland-second-veteran-injured

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[tnlefty]

1. Rec.d

and a kick, along with a Friday evening goddammit.

[Hosnon]

2. Holy fuck. Every cop involved should do time. nt.

[fascisthunter]

3. they are traitors... pathetic brainless dorks with badges

[formercia]

4. Two vets hospitalized with serious injuries

I get the feeling that Vets are being targeted.

[kayakjohnny]

5. And of course a foreign news source is reporting this. Not US.

What a terrible ordeal to go through. I hope he gets justice and a nice settlement as well.

Not every one is going to take this abuse.

Some one is going to show up prepared to fight back. And no be so peaceful.

When the first cop goes down, it's a real game changer.

[nc4bo]

6. The black shirted ones are beginning to build a very bad reputation

they don't seem to give a shit how the American public is interpreting all of this unnecessary violence against the peaceful.

They should tread very carefully....

[kestrel91316]

7. Um, if the police keep attacking and injuring VETERANS,

it's not going to end well. For the cops.

[in_cog_ni_to]

17. Agree.

They had better watch it.

[themadstork]

18. Yeah

could get pretty ugly.

[louslobbs]

8. I regret having to kick another one of these. The riot police who engage in this behavior turn my

stomach and only stand to reinforce the conversation in this country that many of the police have become an arm of the 1%, no longer enforcers of law, but rather, tax payer funded militant protectors of the rich and powerful minority who are trying every trick in their playbook to stop the peaceful assembly of the majority seeking redress from a government hijacked by the plutarchy.

This country is no longer being governed, it is being ruled, most of us now know it, they know we know it, and they really don't know how to stop what is happening.

Their corporate media is failing them, their bought and paid for government officials can no longer fool us with their phony speeches and promises, their infiltrators and provocateurs are having little success, their tools in the police force are showing themselves for the brutal thugs they really are, and We the people, finally, are in the streets and not backing down from authority rule trying to force blind obedience on the majority using violent, militant tactics, on behalf of those who are clinging to their power, trying to somehow stop the freedom of speech and assembly in our alleged Democracy.

You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil.
A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Lou

Lou

[WillyT]

9. + 1,000,000,000,000... What You Said !!! - Thank You !!!

:hi:

[louslobbs]

11. I'm just so sick of all of this BS.......thank you WillyT, I'm sure you're sick of it as well. n/t

Lou

[coalition_unwilling]

13. +1,000,000,000 x 1,000,000,000 - I really wish you would make

this an OP of its own, i.e., the difference between being governed\governing oneself and being ruled.

[louslobbs]

16. Thank you soooo much for that coalition_unwilling, your comment blew me away...your comment made my

day.....thank you again.....wow.....people on DU often blow me away with their comments, but your comment related to my post was one of the best feeling comments I've ever received from another member.
Your friend,
Lou

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. ...

[WillyT]

12. Kick !!!

:kick:

[Dawson Leery]

14. Oakland PD does NOT deserve their union.

[coalition_unwilling]

15. K&R in rage and sadness - n/t