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80-year-old former Marine dies after confrontation with bar patron not wearing a mask
Pennlive ^ | 6 October A.D. 2020 | Janet Krajcsik

Posted on 10/06/2020 8:20:42 AM PDT by lightman

An 80-year-old man, a retired steelworker from Pittsburgh, died after he confronted a bar patron who wouldn’t wear a mask, according to KDKA CBS 2.

The District Attorney believes Rocco is the first person to die in the U.S. because of a physical altercation over wearing a mask.

The death of Rocco Sapienza is being investigated as a homicide. In a report by WKBW ABC7 in Buffalo, the incident took place at Pamp’s Red Zone Bar and Grill in West Seneca, New York, on Sept. 26. The Erie County District Attorney’s Office in New York says Sapienza got into an argument with 65-year-old Donald Lewinski, who was not wearing a mask.

An 80-year-old man from Pittsburgh died after he confronted a bar patron who wouldn’t wear a mask. The death of Rocco Sapienza, is being investigated as a homicide. Sapienza got into an argument with 65-year-old Donald Lewinski, who was not wearing a mask. https://t.co/fvTGlRaLFh — Ethical Society of Police - ESOP (@ESOP_STL) October 6, 2020

Sapienza noticed that Lewinski was not wearing a face covering whenever he took buckets of beer to a band that was performing outside. Later when Sapienza confronted Lewinski, the 65-year-old stood up and pushed Sapienza with both hands, causing Sapienza to fall backward, hitting his head on the ground.

Sapienza died Oct. 1 from head trauma after being in a coma following the incident. Cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma to the head.

Sapienza’s family in Pittsburgh is remembering him as a Marine who stood up for the little guy.

“He wasn’t afraid to call somebody out for being stupid, for acting stupid. If you knew my father, that’s the kind of guy he was. And my father could hold a conversation with anybody, he was a very friendly man,” said Richard Sapienza.

While this may be the first death from such a confrontation, there have been many arguments and violent acts associated with this controversial subject. A man pointed a gun at a woman in a Cambria Township Walmart earlier this year for not wearing her mask.

In late September in Logan, Ohio, a woman was tased by a school resource officer for resisting arrest after refusing to leave a middle school football game when she wasn’t wearing her mask.

And in August, a woman took her frustrations out on store goods when she was asked to wear a mask at a Dauphin County convenience store.


TOPICS: Local News; Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: marine; mask; newyork; nonetoosapienza; openpa; pennsylvania; pittsburgh; roccosapienza; scamdemic; westseneca; wolf; wronghilltodieon
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To: lightman

got into an argument with 65-year-old Donald Lewinski, who was not wearing a mask.
An 80-year-old man from Pittsburgh died after he confronted a bar patron who wouldn’t wear a mask.


I thought they closed the bars?

80 and 65 hanging in bars?


101 posted on 10/06/2020 3:26:19 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ConservativeMind; SaveFerris
Lots of mask nazi's around. What do you think Ferris? Prepping for the Trib?
102 posted on 10/06/2020 3:26:29 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Like Enoch, Noah, & Lot, the True Church will soon be removed & then destruction comes forth.)
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To: Pravious

Says person who just insulted someone he does not even know and started this thread?


103 posted on 10/06/2020 4:18:22 PM PDT by Dirk Savage
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

It’s almost or pretty much the law around here.

I never get too excited about it but I have seen people that have.

The politicians have now seen how fear can give them crazy powers.

Hold on to your hats.


104 posted on 10/06/2020 6:37:09 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: DEPcom

I’m just sick and tired of the left and busy bodies ruining America and then playing the victim. If they keep it up curse words will be the last of their worries. November is Trump or War.


105 posted on 10/07/2020 8:44:37 AM PDT by Maelstorm (Free is just another word for someone else has to pay.)
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To: Maelstorm

“Throughout life people will make you mad, disprespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, because hate in your heart will consume you too» – Will Smith “

Don’t let hate harden your heart and Soul.


106 posted on 10/07/2020 9:20:41 AM PDT by DEPcom
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To: DEPcom

There is truth in that but the last time people were submissive in the face of evil they were shipped off to camps to be gassed or killed outright with the rise of marxism across Asia.


107 posted on 10/08/2020 7:53:34 AM PDT by Maelstorm (Free is just another word for someone else has to pay.)
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To: Maelstorm

“There is truth in that but the last time people were submissive in the face of evil they were shipped off to camps to be gassed or killed outright with the rise of marxism across Asia.”

Don’t be that person who is full of hate pushing that button. I am sure the German who turn that switch was full of hate toward the Jews. Hate can not drive hate out.


108 posted on 10/08/2020 10:58:07 AM PDT by DEPcom
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