Posted on 06/05/2020 11:08:54 AM PDT by Morgana
Two Buffalo police officers have been suspended without pay following an incident caught on camera, showing them shoving an elderly man, causing him to stumble backward and fall, injuring his head.
The video shows the 75-year-old man approaching officers during a tense protest in Niagara Square and the situation escalating quickly, as the officers shoved the man, who stumbled backward and fell. The graphic video shows the elderly man lying on the ground with blood gushing from what appeared to be his right ear:
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In these time one never walks straight up to the police and reach out to touch them.
Man made a stupid move.
8 o clock curfew, time to go home, he didn’t.
Agreed. The man was barely pushed, but he lost his balance.
The officer who pushed him looks upset when he sees what happened.
” But, that does not mean the Officers intended to cause serious bodily injury to the man.”
The entire world has seen this now at the time when we least need it. Fodder for the dark forces.
Initially my mind made me believe the cops pushed him because that’s what the story said. But the more I watched the video, it became obvious that they touched him gently, and he began fast walking backward, lost his footing, and fell.
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