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Disturbing Video Shows College Hockey Player Pushing Disabled Woman's Wheelchair Down Stairs
Western Journal ^ | By Peter Partoll March 15, 2023 at 12:29pm

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...


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To: Chickensoup
... some drunk thoughtless teens roll a wheeled object down a flight of stairs at a bar?

Was it the correct thing to do? Of course not.

However. Not worth more attention than a private discussion with Dean and the person who was using the chair.

Everyone here is free to give it zero attention if so inclined.

61 posted on 03/15/2023 3:07:54 PM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: pingman

I’m going to take your word for it and hope I never have to find out.


62 posted on 03/15/2023 3:08:01 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Red Badger

stupid and silly but that’s it.....they make a mountain out of a molehill....I originally guessed that somebody disabled was IN the chair.


63 posted on 03/15/2023 3:11:47 PM PDT by cherry
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To: mikelets456

Yea looks like stupid behavior but hardly is it what the article tries to imply


64 posted on 03/15/2023 3:15:43 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Sacajaweau
Geez...reads like they pushed an old lady in her wheelchair down the stairs.

That’s what I thought too.

65 posted on 03/15/2023 3:22:49 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: GrootheWanderer

I guess the question is, was it a disabled person’s wheelchair? If so, where was the disabled person? Where’s the rest of the story?


66 posted on 03/15/2023 3:23:52 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: JBW1949
Actually, I did read it -- and the stupid article is confusing as hell, or maybe deliberately misleading -- about that point ...

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.

The article makes it sound like she had to be carried down the stairs BECAUSE the wheelchair was removed, not BEFORE it was removed.

67 posted on 03/15/2023 3:36:11 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: Alberta's Child

It was vague...Evidently, she was downstairs in the restroom when the idiot pushed the chair down the stairs...

I have absolutely no use for the punk that did that, but I have utmost respect for those who carried the young girl down to the restroom...That shows integrity and compassion....Something totally absent in the punk....


68 posted on 03/15/2023 4:11:54 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Red Badger

Was it Paul Ryan maybe?

https://wordpress.lehigh.edu/screams/files/2020/03/syJEVdN9zdrDhKBYfnQEPNunX2N-752x440.jpg


69 posted on 03/15/2023 4:42:05 PM PDT by TheElectionWasStolen
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To: Red Badger

Where is this disabled woman?


70 posted on 03/15/2023 4:57:08 PM PDT by Jonty30 (It is not how many that go into Mexico that counts. It is how many that return from Mexico.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

No. That part I did not know. So no, I’m not part of the problem and stop jumping to conclusions as you don’t know me.

From what I read it appears it was a stupid stunt but now what you stated shows how these people are scum and need their asses kicked.


71 posted on 03/15/2023 7:23:47 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Alberta's Child

My great Aunt lost her legs to a drunk driver. For decades, the men in the family had to help her get to the toilet, in places not meant for handicapped people.

In order for anyone in a wheelchair to use the toilet, that person has to leave it. Believe it or not, handicapped people don’t poop and pee in their wheelchairs!

If the rooms aren’t set up for wheelchair access, you leave the chair behind.

Handicapped people also have to leave their chairs to shower, go to bed, and travel somewhere in a car.

It’s always amazing to me when people who seem intelligent can’t see things that are obvious, even to children. You are one of them.


72 posted on 03/15/2023 11:20:18 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Please read Post #67. The article is confusing as hell — or (more likely) deliberately misleading. It makes it sound like the woman would NOT have needed to be carried to the restroom if the guy hadn’t tossed the wheelchair down the stairs.


73 posted on 03/16/2023 3:00:01 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: nickcarraway

No, Betty Davis....................


74 posted on 03/16/2023 5:08:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Tell It Right

Probably because of his paternity:

“...is the son of the Philadelphia Flyers interim general manager Daniel Briere...”....................


75 posted on 03/16/2023 5:10:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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