
One of the most vivid images from Tuesday night's Occupy Oakland protest shows a man lying in the street bleeding from the head after a tear gas attack by police. Occupy SF identified the man as 24-year-old Scott Olsen, an Iraq war veteran. Olsen has a fractured skull and is in critical condition at Highland Hospital in Oakland, according to a hospital spokesperson. Wednesday afternoon, members of Occupy Oakland said Olsen was surrounded by his friends and fellow Iraq war veterans in the hospital. A YouTube video (below) shows people yelling, "Medic! Medic!" in hopes that someone would come to help Olson. People in the video also ask Olsen "What's your name?" multiple times, but Olsen did not respond. In the end, other protesters picked him up and took him out of the area. Huffington Post talked to Olsen's roommate who told them doctors put him under sedation because of swelling to his brain. The release stated that Olsen is currently sedated at Highland Hospital in Oakland with a skull fracture awaiting examination by a neurosurgeon. Abele Carpenter, 29, a friend of Olsen's who met him through his anti-war activism, said she visited Olsen in the hospital early Wednesday morning and has been in touch with his family. Carpenter said the hospital has stopped allowing her to visit Olsen, who was stable but still in serious condition when she saw him last, and is waiting for his family to arrive from Wisconsin. Carpenter said she first met Olsen over the summer through her <b>...</b>
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