Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has said the 75-year-old man who was shoved to the ground (pictured) by two cops on Thursday was an 'agitator' who tried to work up the crowd and had been asked to leave the area 'numerous' times
Daily Mail: Buffalo mayor says 75-year-old man who was shoved to the ground by police was an 'agitator trying to spark up crowd of protesters' and won't fire two cops amid the ongoing investigation because it's 'very important they get due process'
* Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown addressed Thursday's incident in a press conference on Friday afternoon
* He said he was informed Martin Gugino was an 'agitator' who was asked to leave the area 'numerous times'
* All 57 officers on the Buffalo Police Department's Emergency Response Team resigned from the squad on Friday in support of two colleagues who have been suspended and are under investigation
* The two officers were suspended without pay after footage showed them knocking the 75-year-old man to the ground in front of Buffalo's City Hall
* The officers haven't resigned from the Department - only the Emergency Response Team they were on
* Gugino, a longtime peace activist from Amherst, is in serious but stable condition following the incident that saw him crack his head open and left him lying in a pool of his own blood
* Footage shows one officer pushing him with a baton while another shoves him with his hand
* The elderly man staggers before falling backward, and the sound of a crack is heard as he hits his head
* Buffalo Police initially released a statement saying a person 'was injured when he tripped and fell' before later announcing the officers had been suspended pending an investigation
* New York Gov. Cuomo on Friday called for the city to fire and charge the two officers involved
* He also slammed other officers for walking by as he lay bleeding and unconscious in the street
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has said the 75-year-old man who was shoved to the ground by two cops on Thursday was an 'agitator' who tried to work up the crowd and had been asked to leave the area 'numerous' times.
Brown addressed the incident in a press conference on Friday after 57 officers on the Emergency Response Team resigned from their positions in support of their two colleagues who were suspended without pay after video showed them pushing protester Martin Gugino and causing him to fall and hit his head.
Gugino, a longtime peace activist from Amherst, had been at a protest at Niagara Square near Buffalo City Hall when he approached a line of officers in riot gear after the city's 8pm curfew went into effect.
'What we were informed of is that that individual was an agitator. He was trying to spark up the crowd of people. Those people were there into the darkness. Our concern is when it gets dark, there is a potential for violence,' Brown said.
'There has been vandalism, there have been fires set, there have been stores broken into and looted. According to what was reported to me, that individual was a key major instigator of people engaging in those activities.'
Read more ....
Previous Post: How Police Officers Should Not Behave (June 5, 2020).
WNU Editor: The right thing to do is an investigation. I will not be surprised if more details on this incident become known.
0 Response to "More Details Emerge On The 75-Year-Old Man Who Was Shoved To The Ground By Police Yesterday"
Post a Comment