In yet another case of excessive force the Police in Oakland have sent another Iraq Veteran to the hospital with serious injuries. His spleen was ruptured.
Kayvan Sabehgi, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in intensive care with a lacerated spleen. He says he was beaten by police close to the Occupy Oakland camp, but despite suffering agonising pain, did not reach hospital until 18 hours later.
Not only did they injure him he was locked into a police van for several hours without medical treatment. He was then taken to jail and had to crawl to go from point to point all while in incredible pain and suffering vomiting and diarrhea. It took 18 hours for him to begin to receive medical treatment.
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."
Sabeghi, who left the army in 2007 and now part-owns a small bar-restaurant in El Cerrito, about 10 miles north of Oakland, said he was handcuffed and placed in a police van for three hours before being taken to jail. By the time he got there he was in "unbelievable pain".
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#kayvansabehgi just told me that he's out of surgery for a lacerated spleen. he said he'll be OK, but he's "out of it." #occupyoakland