Columnist Deborah L Born has a positive situation to opine on at Free Range Talk today, concerning the Oakland P.D. and an Occupy protest. ___________ " Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. Or so someone once said. The people involved in the Occupy movement who were injured by the various police departments in this “free” country are finding out how sweet revenge can be. Monetarily, anyway. Raw Story has details on the compensations being awarded for the sufferings of participants by the Oakland Police Department. Spangenberg said: “I was in the middle of telling OPD I loved them when they threw explosives at me. The loud explosion caused permanent hearing loss and unrelenting ringing in my ears. As a result, I can only sleep 2 hours at a time which has had a serious impact on my life, including adversely impacting my graduate school studies, when I graduate, and when I will be ordained. It is my hope that there will never be cause for this type of lawsuit again, and the city can instead focus its resources on supporting the marginalized and those most in need of resources, which is what we were protesting for.” Scott Campbell claimed he was filming a police line outside City Hall on November 3 when Officer Victor Garcia shot him in the groin with a bean bag fired from a 12-gauge shotgun. He received $150,000. Other plaintiffs will receive between $20,000 and $75,000. The total amount is 1 million, a decided hit in the pocketbook for this department, especially in this time of tough budgetary constraints. One of my hopes is that the award will cause police personnel everywhere to think twice and even three times before displaying such outraegeous tactics again. It is not humane to spray pepper spray or deploy flash bangs when people are down or not doing anything to harm others. This is the grim reality of a regime of despotic nature, not the ideal of peaceful conversation one expects in America. It will happen again though, unless the ones responsible for injuring those are held accountable for their actions. This is happening now where it did not happen before on such a scale as to warn police and others that actions have legal consequences. ...
Posted on: Sat, 06 Jul 2013 20:39:21 +0000
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