. >> my name is scott olsen. with me today are my global war on terror metal, operation iraqi freedom medal, national defence metal, and a real good conduct medal. once upon a time, these may me feel good and when i was doing, that i was doing the right thing, but i came back to reality. i do not want these anymore. >> my name is joshua and i'm from chicago. i am here to tell you, i blame myself first. i should have done my homework, realized allies before i participated in them. this symbolic act of throwing away my medals is for all those people out there wondering why we are doing it. do your homework. >> i am from auburn, alabama. i am here to say that war is a racket. >> my name is tom dennis. i served in the army. i have ptsd. i am returning my navy and marine corps achievement medal because they were given to me because of dedication and setting an example. i was a hard worker because i'm very my ptsd and overworked myself in the military. i am throwing this back and invoking my right to appeal. >> my name

soil and against the top brass will introduce you to a few of them and cut up with injured veteran scott olsen. a member of this thousands of angry protesters in wisconsin yelling shame a republican governor scott walker actors union busting bills passed now is jobs on the line with a storage recall election just days away coming up next see why the outcome of this election could potentially create political the steria. plus you know that motto what's yours is mine old purley that's the type of relationship the f.b.i. wants to harness with every american citizen inventing new technology that helps them eavesdrop on your private cyber conversations we'll tell you what that means for your online data. friday may twenty fifth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm abby martin and you're watching our team usually military service medals are keepsakes they're held on for life by soldiers are passed down their family lineage however at last weekend's nato summit over fifty veterans from the nine eleven wars threw away their military medals and protest it was a symbol mostly of reconciliation for the afghan

soil and against the top brass want you to do a few of them and catch up with injured veterans scott olsen. plus you know the motto what's yours is mine all parents about the type of relationship the f.b.i. wants to have with every american citizen and inventing new technology that helps them eavesdrop on your private cyber cyber conversations will tell you what it means for your online data and kids say the darndest things we've always known from t. bowing to some simply hugging students are being suspended from school for the most ridiculous reasons in just a few minutes was comedian dean obadiah if teachers could stop being so politically correct. it's friday may twenty fifth four pm in washington d.c. i'm abbie martin and you're watching our team. usually military service medals are keepsakes for soldiers they're held on for life or passed down in their family lineage however at last weekend's nato summit over fifty veterans from the nine eleven wars throw away their military medals and protest as a symbol of reconciliation for the afghan war and also an act of defiance against nato as

saw it in new york and we definitely saw it in oakland we saw a critical wound of an army veteran scott olsen. i'm wondering your reaction though because just in the last few days it's come out that the city of oakland the oakland police department have been threatened with sanctions to really change the way that they do business they've used you know extraordinarily violent tactics in dealing with some of the occupiers we're showing video right now of that day when scott olsen was hit with a rubber bullet i believe it was really really critically injured that's just one person though there were old women women in their seventy's who were also injured talk a little bit about your reaction now that some action is being taken against the oakland police department. well first of all i think the reactions of the american police have been. byzantine to say that to say it mildly i think that the we basically exposed the the out of date. policing model that we use in the united states of america and particularly in major cities where where the reality is that people are in the streets there aren't a

marine veteran scott olsen we're actually showing him on the screen right now he was critically injured several months ago by a tear gas canister fired by police has taken this video taken in oakland really brought out hundreds of people who were shocked and angry but it wasn't just the beginning of this movement just yesterday also in oakland we're seeing a picture right now of what's called a black water grizzly an armored vehicle frankly to me it looks like a tank this was brought out to deal with occupy protesters when so often you know after a yankee game in new york and a game in oakland you have far more disorderly conduct jank talk about what you've observed with with this aspect of all of this the involvement of police in this. so get a load of the disparity in treatment here so the bankers that wound up stealing billions of dollars well they get no jail time whatsoever they're the ones that cause a recession and in some way they're the ones that caused the occupy movement in the first place so there's no justice for them for them you don't get the tanks rolled out you don't ge

more people come out it's when for example where you are in oakland after the you know injuring of scott olsen that brought so many people out it's after seven hundred people were on the brooklyn bridge in new york and so many got arrested after people saw police used pepper spray in people's faces and that's what's getting the masses to come out so you'd think that maybe they'd the police would learn from that i should say though a federal judge yesterday in the city of oakland ordered the city and its police force to submit a plan on how they might change some of these harsh tactics that have been used the judge said you know if they don't do that if they don't submit this plan the police force can think face sanctions i wonder what you think laura i mean is this a first step to bringing about change. unfortunately you are actually it towards one of the last steps before a whole new situation the oakland police department has been under threat federal receivership for almost a decade. in two thousand and three there was a case where. basically it was determined that there was systemic brutal

was over there myself and was at the front line as tear gas was fired at protesters there was the scott olsen tragedy i think when you look at those events and they've come over the last six months no police force can say well we didn't expect this you know these kind of these amounts of protesters with this level of iron anger so i think that might perhaps stress why police are so cautious and so determined that they aren't caught unprepared and perhaps that is leading to in the eyes of some that may be going a little bit too far like an arms race that's going out of control adam gabbert thank you for being with us tonight. pleasure thank you the freedom to assemble and speak out is the primary right guaranteed by our constitution is the first friggin amendment if thomas jefferson could see the links the police are going to do today to quash that right to be shocked. in screwed news big oil is sabotaging our clean energy future the organization checks and balances recently uncovered treasure trove of documents outlining a strategy against president obama's clean energy agenda in particular w

marine veteran scott olsen who was seen here critically injured hospitalized for days after being hit by a tear gas canister shot by police and i want to talk about the occupy movement since then and bring in jessica holley an occupy oakland blogger hey there jessica to start off just give us a look at describe the scene for us in oakland during yesterday's mayday events well yesterday everything started out pretty celebrate story i'd say everybody was in very high spirits and read music and there was music and there was a lot of gatherings and speeches rallies and so forth and so on but as the day it progressed and people started marching you could see the increase of police presence and it almost seemed as if the police were like. being patient with the march but then when they decided that they wanted the march to be over did they want to see you violent. in an attempt to control people who were occupying and refusing to be intimidated and we just got some video that we're showing now this video from oakland yesterday showing masses of police really out there and i also want to put

officer allegedly fired a beanbag round that critically injured marine scott olsen. after the 2003, the city agreed complete investigations within six months. >>> officials near sacramento are warning boaters and rafters to take precautions after a man drowned on the american river yesterday. it happened near chamberlain falls on the north folk of the american river near colfax. >> he was thrown out the rest with two other rafters and he was trying to help his fellow rafters in when he hit a second hit of rapids. he may have saved a life or two in the process. >> the river is running fast this time of year and that the water temperatures in the lower to mid-50s. they say it's very important for everyone to wear life vests and be realistic about their rafting and swimming abilities. >>> the price at the gap pump has dropped sharply over the last two weeks to a new national average of l 8.85. in the bay area, gas is much higher. san francisco has the highest price as the $4.29 a gallon. in oakland it's about $4.20 and in san josi, gas averaging $4.21 a gallon. >>> notr