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.
“after he confronted a bar patron” <— first mistake.
I was yelled at by a 70-something gray-haired old woman yesterday, yelling at me that I was an asshole and stupid, to “just wear a mask!” She wisely walked away, though I’d have ignored continued verbal assault from this poor, brainwashed and gaslighted old woman.
She yelled this while wearing a paper surgical mask within 2 feet of me.
I calmly asked her, “Who the f*** are you?”
This case is tragic on multiple accounts, but no one - I mean NO ONE - wants to get into it over this mask BS with me and come to a “push”; it will end badly and I will have an alibi.
Wrong thread, Bubba.
So he decided to be a mask enforcer and it didn’t work out for him...
Yeah, seems his actions were more dangerous than Covid.
He also needs to hammer the REAL deaths FROM COVID which the CDC reported are much lower than the 200k that the media gleefully continually blames Trump for.
I call them self appointed germ police.
I no longer care if they live or die. They are responsible for the loss of liberty and violation of our civil rights.
They NEED to die!
So the 80-yr old died from COVID19? :-)
What does his status as a veteran have to do with this store? 80 year olds getting into fights in a bar tells me all I need to know.
My Dad’s name was Rocco.
Why defend the 80 yo nut who worried about
viruses, outdoors
Because local govt is still suggesting we do so,
and dopes everywhere obey the subliminal messaging
On parkways in NY the messaging displays
still urge, “Chynese Virus is still a risk, wear a
mask” and “One small ask, wear a mask”
I felt great before, you, however, are still an asshole, allegedly, and your breath still stinks.
What a fine human being you must be, needlessly insulting people on the internet who you don’t know.
Have a nice day anyway.
Bar fights are a bad idea. The winner goes to jail. The loser goes to the hospital or the morgue.
Killed by his own Media...
Pricks or assholes come in all shapes, sizes, colors, nationalities, and have served in all branches of the service. If you are MYOB and someone else insists on MYB, walk away. The problems then only come when some P or AH won’t let you walk away. Then all bets are off. Remember the choices you make will have consequences - are they worth it? Short temper and false pride will FYU everytime. Walk away if at all possible. Stand you ground only when there’s no other.
Probably right.
Sounds like a union dude full of himself.
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