The Iraq War veteran injured in clashes between police and anti-Wall
Street protesters felt so strongly about economic inequality that he
wanted to do something to change it, his roommate said Thursday.

Scott Olsen, 24, joined the protests as he worked his day job as a
network engineer and left his apartment each night to sleep alongside
protesters in San Francisco and Oakland, Calif., Keith Shannon said.

Olsen apparently suffered a fractured skull Tuesday during the
clashes.

It's not known exactly what type of object struck Olsen or where or
from whom it came from. The group Iraq Veterans Against the War said
officers were responsible for his injury.