Police Violence Against Veterans: A Long and Painful Legacy

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When I read the headlines yesterday evening, I felt as though I were in a time warp. "Police Fracture Iraq Vet's Skull Clearing Intersection of Protesters." But the location was wrong: Oakland, Calif. I thought that happened in Hempstead, N.Y.

I was reading about Scott Olsen's cracked skull at the hands of the Oakland police, but all I could picture was my friend Nick Morgan's head, fractured by the Hempstead police, bleeding out on the sidewalk in front of Hofstra University. Three years ago, almost to the day, they nearly killed my friend, a veteran of Iraq... when they fractured his skull... clearing an intersection of protesters.

Police violence against peaceful demonstrators in the U.S. has a long and painful history. Police violence against veteran demonstrators is absolutely no exception
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthis-chiroux/police-violence-veterans_b_1040077.html

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1. WW1 veterans Bonus riots

http://www.v-r-a.org/docs/bonusmch.htm

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2. Thanks

Well done article.

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