The sensation-hungry press has been hostile to the Occupy Wall Street demos since the start, but yesterday the fourth estate hit pay dirt. Thursday November 10 was a bad day for Occupy protests across the country BusinessInsider reports.
At Occupy Burlington a man named Josh, 35, said to be a military veteran needing mental health services, shot himself at about 2:20 in the afternoon. He died a few hours later at a local hospital.
There was also a shooting in Oakland where one man died and a reporter filming the incident was injured. Reports vary, but this video below was shot by a man on the scene who says he heard six shots that were prompted by a fight over "a bag of weed." "It's gotten really nasty down here, real fast."
At Occupy Atlanta there were reports picked up by many media outlets that tuberculosis had hit the camp, but the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports tests showed "No trace of any TB at all."
Find out more at http://www.businessinsider.com/yesterday-at-occupy-a-suicide-a-murder-and-reports-of-tuberculosis-2011-11
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