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Mayor Jean Quan has renewed her appeal to Occupy Oakland representatives to meet with city officials and discuss the future of the growing encampment of protesters outside City Hall. Her latest overture comes as dueling video evidence was released by Oakland authorities and by a man who experts say appears to be the victim of excessive police force.
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Earlier in the day, the Oakland Tribune reported ( http://bit.ly/rQfuLG), Scott Campbell said police shot him with a rubber bullet or beanbag while he was videotaping a standoff between authorities and demonstrators following a "general strike" last week. Experts in police use of force say it appears the volley that hit Campbell was unprovoked and inappropriate.

In the video, Campbell, 30, is heard calling, "Is this OK?" to a line of riot gear-clad officers. He told the newspaper that he was asking if his distance from them was adequate because an officer had asked him to step back. A firearm held by an officer then is seen going off, followed by Campbell's yelps of pain.
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Campbell, who identifies himself as an anarchist, said he took video of the confrontation that occurred early Nov. 3 because he wanted to document any instances of excessive force, but did not imagine that he would be a target. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501369_162-57321224/experts-question-shoot
ing-of-occupy-oakland-filmer/, the article is titled "Experts question shooting of Occupy Oakland filmer", but there's nothing in the article about it being questioned...?

Anyway, NOTHING on Occupy Wall Street or Occupy Oakland's websites, and as I said, they'd be screaming bloody murder if it was real. That he identified himself as an anarchist is one more fact on the side of it being fake, to me; the "anarchist" group were the ones responsible for all the damage done to Oakland that day, for which the Occupiers were blamed.

It's way too late after the fact, but at least the article admitted same:

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Authorities have said they moved to arrest more than 100 people and used tear gas and beanbags after a small group of self-proclaimed anarchists entered a vacant building with bottles and flares and then lit fires in the street when officers tried to clear the building.

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Not that you'll see it anywhere else; just like accusations make the front page and clarifications end up on page 19, the protesters will continue to be blamed for the mess in Oakland. I'd put money on these "anarchists" either being a rowdy bunch of assholes or infiltrators--probably the latter--bent on making the protests look violent.

So I'm putting this story in the category of bullshit and paying it no more attention. It could so easily have been faked, and it would be exactly the kind of thing the "anarchists" would love to have believed.

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Campbell, holding the camera, moves slowly to his right, filming the line; Campbell is heard twice asking, "Is this OK?"

"When I was approaching the line, an officer told me to stop and step back, so I stepped back 5 or 10 feet and started filming, and I asked if that was OK," he explained Monday.

He said there was no reply until an officer raised a weapon and fired, striking him in the upper right thigh with a nonlethal projectile; the video ends with his crying out in pain.
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Campbell said his friends saw him get hit and rushed him away to the shelter of a doorway. Someone brought an ice pack while a legal observer took down information, and then his friends helped him get to a taxi. He saw a doctor later Thursday, who told him to keep the wound bandaged and iced. He said Monday he has a 1½ -inch wound with swelling and bruising around it.

Campbell said he does social and digital media work for a local nonprofit and supports Occupy Oakland. "I don't camp out there, I've been a participant but not an active organizer," he said. "I've come out for general assemblies and marches, and I came out that day for the general strike to show my support."

He said he brought his camera that night to document any excessive force used by police, never imagining that might make him a target. "I don't know if I was in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time."

He said he wants an independent, not internal, investigation of this and other reports of excessive force, and is considering whether to take legal action.
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