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Marine Sgt. Shamar Thomas on Countdown

A follow-up to '1Marine vs. 30 Cops'

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The Marine Corps veteran seen in videos shouting at New York City police officers during the ongoing �Occupy Wall Street� demonstration appeared Monday night on Countdown with Keith Olbermann to discuss the situation.

Sgt. Shamar Thomas, of the 3rd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, confronted a group of police officers and gave them a stern lecture at the top of his voice about how they should not be hurting peaceful American protesters.

�I�ve been to Iraq twice,� he told Olbermann. �I was in a riot in Rutba in 2004, where we had rocks thrown at us and after the rocks were thrown we didn�t go beating up people and arresting people. We treated them with a level of humility.�

Thomas questioned by the police wore riot gear and used batons against peaceful protesters.

�When people are just shouting, �We are the 99 percent, come join us,� these are not chants that incite violence,� he noted.

When asked what the protest meant to him, Thomas said: �This is our time in our generation to change the greed that is in America.�