I'd be careful if I were you ...
too many Wayne County weirdos out there to be tempting fate.
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.
Fawci and Birks have just decreed that all bar patrons MUST wear complete masking headgear and also drink ONLY from his/her own bucket of beer.
And NO touching the edge of the bucket either!
So, he assaults someone then we’re supposed to have sympathy because he is a Marine?? Maybe the person he assaulted was also a veteran. Then what?
If he had minded his own business he would still be alive. Since he instigated the confrontation I don’t see how this is murder!!!
Tragic in more ways than one - confronting someone who chooses to live FRee because one isn’t prone to do so himself is a tragedy to begin with....Marines should know better after all they did to enable us to be FRee
Doing so in a bar has its own sad connotations...if I felt threatened because of conditions in a bar, I would leave the place...lonely old alkies have more trouble using that option.
The 80 year old is the the one who instigated it!!!
“The asshole who pushed an 80 year old man to the ground and killed him.”
Maybe, Mr. 80-Yeasr-Old shouldn’t pick fights he cannot win. I don’t care how old you are, don’t assault people unless you want to get your ass kicked.
“That attitude is widespread amongst cruisers and will slow down the recovery of the cruise lines.”
Maybe wait until all the details are out before throwing shade on someone?
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Just to be clear, whoever it was you’re quoting wasn’t me.
I’ve been wearing a body camera in public spaces for precisely THIS.
“Sometimes not MYOB can be detrimental to one’s health”
That’s what we learned growing up on the south side of Chicago.
He’s a looker.
So is this being categorized as Covid-19?
So his full name translates to "dumb as a rock"?
I was on the phone and walked into a supermarket and was getting icy Karen and Chad stares until I realized I obviously had no mask. I have seriously come to hate a great portion of Americans. The left has systematically fractured the nation at all levels.
Masks. In a bar? How was the old guy drinking? Did the band have masks on and did he lecture them also?
> Since he instigated the confrontation I don’t see how this is murder!!! <
If I were on the jury I’d want to know who touched who first.
Correct. Another nosy busybody male Karen who didn't know how to mind his own business bites the dust. They just never seem to learn where ones rights begins and ends.
Check...Checkmate!
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