Scott Olsen, 26, suffered a fractured skull and brain damage when he was struck in the head by a lead-filled bean bag fired by an Oakland police officer. The shooting occurred on Oct. 25, 2011, during a nighttime demonstration at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza outside Oakland City Hall, where hundreds of people had amassed to protest the citys evacuation of an Occupy encampment from the plaza earlier that day. At the plaza on Friday, Olsen, dressed in faded, ripped jeans and plaid shirt, said the settlement should provide him enough money for the rest of his life but that the brain damage he suffered has prevented him from returning to work at a technology firm. They could give me a $100 million, he said. That is not going to give me part of my brain back that is dead. Including Olsens case, Oakland has now agreed to pay out more than $6.3 million in Occupy-related lawsuits.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:56:46 +0000
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