Last night Scott Olsen, a veteran of the Marines who served Iraq war veteran, and a Systems Administrator is in critical condition at Highlands Hospital in Oakland after suffering a skull-fracture during last night's Occupy Oakland protest. He was shot at point blank range with a shotgun equipped to launch tear-gas canisters by either a member of Oakland Police Department or San Francisco County Sheriff's department. 

Watch this video and pay close attention. At around 0:37 a group of protesters run to Scott's aid. At 0:39 you see a black object lobbed by the police into the middle of this crowd where Scott was laying unconscious. A second later the object, a flash-bang grenade explodes in the middle of the aid group. These are our friends and our colleagues. These aren't just hippie kids in drum circles, this is a man who risked his life for our country, building a career for himself as a systems administrator.

As if it isn't hard enough being a systems administrator, now we have the police trying to kill us for exercising our first amendment rights.  :(