Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has said the 75-year-old man who was shoved to the ground (pictured) by two cops on Thursday was an 'agitator' who tried to work up the crowd and had been asked to leave the area 'numerous' times
Daily Mail: Buffalo mayor says 75-year-old man who was shoved to the ground by police was an 'agitator trying to spark up crowd of protesters' and won't fire two cops amid the ongoing investigation because it's 'very important they get due process'
* Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown addressed Thursday's incident in a press conference on Friday afternoon
* He said he was informed Martin Gugino was an 'agitator' who was asked to leave the area 'numerous times'
* All 57 officers on the Buffalo Police Department's Emergency Response Team resigned from the squad on Friday in support of two colleagues who have been suspended and are under investigation
* The two officers were suspended without pay after footage showed them knocking the 75-year-old man to the ground in front of Buffalo's City Hall
* The officers haven't resigned from the Department - only the Emergency Response Team they were on
* Gugino, a longtime peace activist from Amherst, is in serious but stable condition following the incident that saw him crack his head open and left him lying in a pool of his own blood
* Footage shows one officer pushing him with a baton while another shoves him with his hand
* The elderly man staggers before falling backward, and the sound of a crack is heard as he hits his head
* Buffalo Police initially released a statement saying a person 'was injured when he tripped and fell' before later announcing the officers had been suspended pending an investigation
* New York Gov. Cuomo on Friday called for the city to fire and charge the two officers involved
* He also slammed other officers for walking by as he lay bleeding and unconscious in the street
Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has said the 75-year-old man who was shoved to the ground by two cops on Thursday was an 'agitator' who tried to work up the crowd and had been asked to leave the area 'numerous' times.
Brown addressed the incident in a press conference on Friday after 57 officers on the Emergency Response Team resigned from their positions in support of their two colleagues who were suspended without pay after video showed them pushing protester Martin Gugino and causing him to fall and hit his head.
Gugino, a longtime peace activist from Amherst, had been at a protest at Niagara Square near Buffalo City Hall when he approached a line of officers in riot gear after the city's 8pm curfew went into effect.
'What we were informed of is that that individual was an agitator. He was trying to spark up the crowd of people. Those people were there into the darkness. Our concern is when it gets dark, there is a potential for violence,' Brown said.
'There has been vandalism, there have been fires set, there have been stores broken into and looted. According to what was reported to me, that individual was a key major instigator of people engaging in those activities.'
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WNU Editor: The right thing to do is an investigation. I will not be surprised if more details on this incident become known.
3 comments:
We will see if you are still laughing when the "piggies" in your neighborhood go away when the riotors come to your neighborhood to burn it down. Police are a necessary evil, those who wish otherwise are begging for anarchy and mob rule.
Martin Gugino is an ass. There is no other way to put it.
If Martin Gugino, the fuckwad, had been 25 in 1943, would he have been protesting the detention of German POWs?
But you say it is different. There was a war then, but there is not a war now. There is the Global War on Terror (GWOT). It has not ended. Terrorist groups have been designated. So we have a identifiable enemy and a war. So what it the problem with prima donna, I never protected anyone Gugino?
I hope he dies. I don't want him to die now, because he would be martyr. I want things to calm down, him to visit NYC in 3 years and he is polar bear hunted by some racist black person. I hope he goes into and out of unconsciousness in severe pain from being attacked by a black person.
Oh and don't say there has been no formal declaration of war and GWOT doesn't count. Al Qaeda formally declared war on us, There is a war. When Hitler declared war on the US, if the US had not declared War on the NAZIS, would that mean there was no war? It would according to shit ass liberals and Guginos of the world.
R: This is true. This is all about victimology.
C: Yes.
R: "Every minority, according to the left — every minority in the country — is a victim of a tyrannical majority. Every aspect of the Democrat Party agenda is to reverse that..."
In the 1980s females students were sleeping in the quad of the university in sleeping bags and carbaord boxes to protest the 2nd class status. They literally called themselves "2nd class citizens".
I never understood it. All of my female relatives peers were going to college. The vast majority of my aunts and that generation had went to college unless they were from benighted Europe.
I it is almost like a hurricane went through town and people had board up, weathered the hurricane, cleaned up the broken glass afterwards and were sitting down for lunch after the clean up effort and these things come screeching at them about the need to prepare for the hurricane.
They were literally protesting a whole generation too late attempting to score brownie points to use as political capital for their nest egg or something.
That is just one point.
If you dig you will see pundits write that when a Muslim and gay have a disagreement in The West, the Leftist establishment sides with the Muslim more often than not.
Read up on Bruce Bawer and why he Left The Netherlands for Norway. It wasn't because a bunch of rednecks, conservatives and Republicans.
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