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when you see “All 57″ trending on Twitter and you think it’s because all 57 Buffalo Emergency Response Team police officers quit in support of the BLM movement.
but it’s really that all 57 resigned from the EMT in support of the two police officers who were suspended for shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground and putting him in the hospital.
disgusting and absolutely shameful.
Fifty-seven police officers in Buffalo, New York, have resigned from the force's emergency response team following the suspension of two officers who are seen on video pushing a 75-year-old protester, a source close to the situation said Friday.
Fifty-seven police officers in Buffalo, New York, have resigned from the force's emergency response team following the suspension of two officers who are seen on video pushing a 75-year-old protester, a source close to the situation said Friday.
An investigation is underway in a protest incident Gov. Andrew Cuomo called “wholly unjustified and utterly disgraceful.” The man was seriously injured.
Video of the demonstration Thursday shows a row of officers walking toward the man and two pushing him. His head bleeds onto the sidewalk as officers walk past him, some looking down at him.
The demonstrators in Niagara Square were, like those across the country, calling for racial justice after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.
The 57 officers resigned from the emergency unit but not from the force. The Buffalo mayor's office told CNN that the 57 members that resigned from the unit make up the entire active emergency response team. A few members of the unit are out currently and are not included in the 57 that resigned, according to the mayor's office.
“Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” Buffalo Police Benevolent Association president John Evans told WGRZ on Friday. WKBW also reported news of the resignations.
The man's identity, Martin Gugino, was confirmed by Cuomo's office. Gugino is hospitalized in serious but stable condition, authorities said.
Mayor Byron Brown said he wants the two suspended officers to get due process. “I am not calling for them to be fired.” Speaking of the injured man, the mayor said, “He was asked to leave numerous times last night.”
Based on the initial video, police issued a statement that said Gugino tripped and fell, police spokesman Mike DeGeorge told CNN.
After more videos became available, police amended that statement, and Buffalo Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood suspended the officers without pay and opened an investigation, he said.
“The department moved swiftly” and “corrected” the information, DeGeorge said.
Aaron Torgalski, 39, and Robert McCabe, 32
These are the police officers who assaulted a unarmed 75 year old man
https://news.wbfo.org/post/graphic-video-two-buffalo-police-officers-suspended-after-violently-shoving-elderly-man-ground?fbclid=IwAR3jSLtnKlRuVZ5eXZaSngo1I-eeKuD-Uu6RwUQ3QqtvhdY8-_zFZXygzrg
The pigs have gotten so arrogant and out of control they are assaulting senior citizens now.
Shortly after Buffalo’s curfew started Thursday evening, city police and State Police swept through the area of Niagara Square directly in f
Cariol Horne acted to keep a white officer from using what she saw as excessive force. Fifteen years later, a judge said her firing was wrong.
It was a cold November day in Buffalo when Officer Cariol Horne responded to a call for a colleague in need of help. What she encountered was a white officer who appeared to be “in a rage” punching a handcuffed Black man in the face repeatedly as other officers stood by.
Officer Horne, who is Black, heard the handcuffed man say he could not breathe and saw the white officer put him in a chokehold. At that point, court documents show, she forcibly removed the white officer and began to trade blows with him.
In the altercation’s aftermath, Officer Horne was reassigned, hit with departmental charges and, eventually, fired just one year short of the 20 on the force she needed to collect her full pension. She tried, and failed, more than once to have the decision reversed as unfair.
On Tuesday, in an outcome explicitly informed by the police killing of George Floyd, a state court judge vacated an earlier ruling that affirmed her firing, essentially rewriting the end of her police career, and granting her the back pay and benefits she had previously been denied.
“The legal system can at the very least be a mechanism to help justice prevail, even if belatedly,” the judge, Justice Dennis E. Ward, wrote.
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Cariol Horne acted to keep a white officer from using what she saw as excessive force. Fifteen years later, a judge said her firing was wron
A judge on Friday temporarily blocked the city from publicly releasing three types of records in employees' disciplinary files: unsubstantiated allegations, pending allegations and matters that were the subject of
Trump suggested that Martin Gugino, 75, who was pushed by two police officers at a protest, may be an "ANTIFA provocateur."
President Donald Trump tweeted a conspiracy theory Tuesday about a Buffalo man injured by police that has circulated around fringe, far-right online media in recent days, adding to efforts from the president and other conservatives to cast protesters as part of a shadowy “antifa” movement.
Trump suggested that Martin Gugino, 75, who is in serious but stable condition in a Buffalo hospital after being pushed by two police officers at a protest, may be an “ANTIFA provocateur” who was "scanning" police equipment when he was pushed.
The video of Gugino became one of the most-viewed examples of police violence related to the recent protests.
“Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?” the president tweeted.
Trump's claims appeared to have been ripped from a conspiracy theory that aired Tuesday morning on One America News Network, a far-right cable news channel. The theory was originally posted to an anonymous conservative blog.
One America News Network claimed that Gugino, an activist from a Buffalo suburb, was using “common antifa tactics” when he was pushed by police. OANN reporter Kristian Rouz said the incident “could be the result of a false flag provocation by far-left group antifa.”
Rouz claimed that “newly released video” showed Gugino “using a police tracker on his phone.” The video is not newly released — merely slowed down — and it does not show Gugino using a “police tracker.” Rouz called it an “old trick used by antifa” without providing evidence or other examples.
Rouz's report about Gugino cited an article from Conservative Treehouse, a far-right blog that frequently posts conspiracy theories. The blog post claims without evidence that Gugino is a “75-year-old professional agitator and Antifa provocateur” who “was attempting to capture the radio communications signature of Buffalo police officers.” The Conservative Treehouse post is written by a user named “Sundance,” who cites their own Twitter thread as proof of the conspiracy theory.
Gugino was pushed by two Buffalo police officers and fell, appearing to hit his head hard enough to bleed from the ears as officers passed by. The two officers seen pushing Gugino, Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe, were suspended without pay and charged with second-degree assault. They have pleaded not guilty.
Gugino's attorney released a statement Friday requesting “privacy for himself and his family as he recovers.”
