Posted on 03/15/2023 1:25:31 PM PDT by Red Badger
Mercyhurst University is conducting an investigation after a video emerged appearing to show one of their student-athletes pushing a disabled student’s wheelchair down the stairs at a local nightclub.
According to Fox News, a video showed Carson Briere, who plays on the school’s hockey team and is the son of the Philadelphia Flyers interim general manager Daniel Briere, walking up the stairs with a friend. After talking to another man, the two of them appeared to take the wheelchair from the corner and roll it down the stairs.
The wheelchair apparently belonged to a disabled young woman, who is also a student at the university, and she had to be carried down the stairs afterward to use the bathroom.
Mercyhurst University responded to the firestorm that erupted on social media after the video emerged, saying that they were conducting an investigation into the affair.
“Late this afternoon, Mercyhurst University became aware of a disturbing video in which one of our student-athletes is seen pushing an unoccupied wheeler chair down a flight of stairs at a local establishment. Our Office of Student Conduct and Department of Police and Safety are investigating,” the university wrote on social media.
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No one was in it and who knows why it was even there.....Non story unless a person with no legs was stuck there all night.
It was abusive of some else’s property.
If they had put your car in Neutral and shove it down a hill, would you feel the same? At least you can walk to the wreck.
Geez...reads like they pushed an old lady in her wheelchair down the stairs.
I remember Richard Widmark as Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death. Tommy came to a bad end.
Was it Richard Widmark?
GMTA
When I was growing up, he would have received a beatdown requiring him to be in a wheelchair for a few months, just so he feels the pain
Yeah, it’s odd seeing freepers so dismissive of damaging private property, particularly a disabled person’s wheelchair.
What a punk.
If I come across an empty wheelchair in a bar or nightclub, I would assume it belonged to the establishment and was used to wheel drunks out to curb.
Yeah. I was thinking of a reprise of Richard Widmark in Kiss of Death.
It’s pathetic.
Karma can be a b*tch.....
Can someone tell me why the article and headline needs to make sure we know it was done by a college hockey player? It's not like this was done at a hockey rink. Him being a hockey player is as irrelevant as the car he drives or his favorite ice cream.
Are the left now trying to ban hockey too?
Bfd.
Why is this here?
BULLCRAP! We paraplegics live in our chairs. They are specially designed and fitted to each user, and cost a sh!tton of $$, and take months to have fabricated. Her chair was probably damaged/bent due to this pair of thoughtless yahoos (join the club, FRPal) and getting it repaired, if possible, is time-consuming and expensive.
Stop and think, and roll a mile in our shoes before spouting off your BS.
People who have need of a wheelchair at times do not necessarily have NO legs...You need to grow up....
It might be the tie-in with hockey’s reputation for abusing people during games.
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