<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Oakland agreed to pay an Iraq War veteran $4.5 million to settle a federal lawsuit he filed after a city police officer shot him in the head with a beanbag during an Occupy protest, nearly killing him and leaving him with permanent brain damage, attorneys said Friday.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Olsen said he is still being treated for his head injury. "I didn't win part of my brain back that's dead," he said. "It's hard. It was a hard recovery process.</span><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="line-height: 24px;">”</span></font></div><div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></div><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/4-5M-settlement-for-Oakland-protester-wounded-by-5337743.php">http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/4-5M-settlement-for-Oakland-protester-wounded-by-5337743.php</a></body></html>