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.
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.
80 and 65 hanging in bars?
Says person who just insulted someone he does not even know and started this thread?
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.
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.
“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.
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.
“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.
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