What's the idiot doing and why go against a large group of cops obviously heading to a specific destination...and what did he have in his hand he raised up? He had no business being there!
Posted on 06/05/2020 1:08:59 PM PDT by RummyChick
the entire Emergency Response Team at the Buffalo Police Department has resigned in a show of solidarity for the cops suspended for shoving an elderly man to the ground.
A total of about 57 officers walked off the job Friday, though they are still employed with the police department -- just no longer on the ERT ... according to WIVB reporter Dave Greber.
The move comes less than 24 hours after video surfaced showing cops in heavy gear shoving 75-year-old Martin Gugino even though he was NOT being physically confrontational. A rep for Buffalo PD allegedly told a lcoal reporter the man was injured when he "tripped and fell," but the video shows that's clearly not the case.
Gugino started bleeding from his head and lay motionless immediately after his head hit the pavement.
The Buffalo Police Commissioner took swift action in announcing the 2 officers involved were suspended without pay. The Mayor of Buffalo said he was deeply disturbed over the incident, adding the elderly man is in serious but stable condition.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
At my age, I don’t poke bears any longer. Wisdom enough to know them night sticks hurt. So do sidewalks.
Wow! They have a baby, how will they survive?
Go to the panhandle....maybe Jacksonville. Fairly conservative areas.
his skull got cracked
think he is still in hospital
The entire force should...at the very least...call in sick.
The filthy little monster dyke mayor of Chicago is demanding the firing of a cop who gave the bird to the rioters. She (?) who the day before said “F... Y..” to Trump on TV.
The article said serious condition but stable...
IMHO they should have just taken his aside and told him to go home.
Maybe the old man was just clowning around, but who knows. And anyway that's NOT the time or place for the old man to be fooling around.
“Hey,that’s a good start in the effort to cut the department’s budget”
How was the budget cut?
Very misleading headline.
AKA "False"
You had better. You are not going to like the way you will end up. You are being used as political pawns and for political gain by the politicians. You will not win this one. And that includes the City of Atlanta , Georgia.
What will pretty boy Newsom and his wife do when hundreds in a Bolshevik style unwashed mob take over their mansion? "Call the cops." "They resigned, sir. Remember?" "Then call in the National Guard over here." "Uh, you denounced them as anti-black, anti-protest symbols of oppression. Militaristic intimidators of people of color. They're banned here." "Oh, cr#p. My big mouth again."
What's the idiot doing and why go against a large group of cops obviously heading to a specific destination...and what did he have in his hand he raised up? He had no business being there!
Yep. Not even sympathy for a stupid old man.
Stupid is stupid.
If you wanna play with the cops you better be ready for the Jack Boot!
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OOOoooh! Thats how all this got started......
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Yep. Stpudity while in the vicinity of Jack Boots.
Whats old is new again.
Stupid.
Stupid.
Stupid.
I saw the video...the fall and his head hitting ground was awful...I think I even heard his head crack on the pavement.
I did not see a “shove” as I would describe it with an avg person.
However, the guy was elderly and we as cops have to remember our SOPs with children, disabled, and the elderly.
When possible you use guiding or escorting due to the higher risk of injury.
I don’t think anyone but the hard-core antifa think they tried to hurt him....just moving line and the guy wasn’t listening.
Bad outcomes do not necessarily mean bad intent.
Stockholm syndrome.
holy moly..didnt know this...FLoyd’s GF is white
I would imagine that the ERT is a “special” unit that gets called up. The probably get additional training and equipment.
The old guy is a fool. You don’t go pawing at police officers—no matter how old and feeble you are.
When no one answers the call, we shall see what happens. P
“If the geezer made contact with the cop, why didn’t they cop just arrest and cuff the geezer? Wouldn’t that have been the proper way to deal with the old man?”
I was wondering the same but the cops had a mission.
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