Let’s all give a big “thanks” to the heroes of the Oakland Police Department, who have now hospitalized two veterans of the Iraq War in the last week as part of their ongoing project to look like the worst police department in the country!
Bar owner Kayvan Sabeghi, a 32-year-old former Army Ranger and veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan, was arrested and beaten by Oakland police on Wednesday night during a crackdown on the generally peaceful Occupy Oakland protests that had been going on that day:
Sabehgi told the Guardian from hospital he was walking alone along 14th Street in central Oakland – away from the main area of clashes – when he was injured.
“There was a group of police in front of me,” he told the Guardian from his hospital bed. “They told me to move, but I was like: ‘Move to where?’ There was nowhere to move.
“Then they lined up in front of me. I was talking to one of them, saying ‘Why are you doing this?’ when one moved forward and hit me in my arm and legs and back with his baton. Then three or four cops tackled me and arrested me.”
The Brandt Standard 
I thought your army Heroes like Rangers and things were meant to be tough guys? You know, catch bullets in their teeth and all that?
And here’s one taken out by a mere half dozen thugs in the street—honestly, what’s the world coming to?
I imagine though that on request there will no shortage of Heroes to back up the police when push comes to shove—Heroes are like that, very forgiving (and if he were an ex-Ranger anyway, that’s not the same thing, is it?).
Posted by Argus | November 7, 2011, 9:43 PM