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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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.
I’m going to take your word for it and hope I never have to find out.
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.
Yea looks like stupid behavior but hardly is it what the article tries to imply
That’s what I thought too.
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?
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.
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....
Was it Paul Ryan maybe?
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Where is this disabled woman?
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.
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.
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.
No, Betty Davis....................
Probably because of his paternity:
“...is the son of the Philadelphia Flyers interim general manager Daniel Briere...”....................
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