Elderly man horribly hurt by Buffalo police

And what the police are saying about the incident:

Buffalo Police issued a statement Thursday night saying "a 5th person was arrested during a skirmish with other protestors and also charged with disorderly conduct. During that skirmish involving protestors, one person was injured when he tripped & fell."

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I understand at least 2 of the officers involved in Buffalo assault have been suspended and an investigation started.

I just saw the video, he definitely was pushed. I did see the one officer who started to stop and then down to help him and he was pushed along by his fellow officers. Absolutely horrible. I truly believe in supporting our law enforcement they have a difficult and demanding job and they do things nobody else wants to do, but behavior like this cannot be tolerated.

I wrote this three times and chickened about posting it. Then decided to go ahead as we need to be open and honest here about how we feel. I know I am going to be lambasted and labeled with ugly words, but please look at the video with an open mind, think of the policeman in question as a son or brother and watch again. You would find excuses for him then just like you are now finding fault with him now because he is a policeman.

I hate that this happened and it is a rough world out there. Yes they were rough with the gentleman, BUT if someone gets in my face to yell at me like he was, I am not apt to act peacefully. Then I saw an officer get on his mic and I hope it was to call in for help for him. There were voices saying get a medic, it might have been an officer or it might have been another protestor.

I am not saying he asked for it, but what was the gentleman expecting to happen? The police line had to move forward, did he think that by getting in the way he would be able to stop it? He would not get out of the way. He was pushed, but how hard? The fact he tripped and fell could have been cause he was pushed too hard, or could have been cause he stumbled, or there might have been a crack in the pavement.

I am not supporting anything I saw there, nor am I saying he asked for it, but please look again at the video and see if you can see other ways to interpret what you are seeing.

They're saying he "tripped and fell"?! He was pretty obviously shoved, then staggered backwards and fell to the ground. One police officer went to walk over to check on him and the other one stopped him.

People die from falling / being pushed to the ground and hitting their head. It happened to a very high profile sports/radio person here some years ago. And he was a lot younger than the man in this video. 

You’re right, those police officers in full riot gear could not possibly have thought of any other solution.

If they had simply gone around the man they wouldn’t have survived to see another day.

If a relative of mine acted like that I would be digusted. Apart from a loud voice what threat was the old man, the policeman was armed, surrounded by a posse of other armed officers. They were unnecessarily aggressive and then compounded their awful behaviour by not immediately checking on him.

I would expect a relative to engage their brain and their mouth before they engage their hands and weapons.

So no, I can't see any other way to interpret the video other than brawn over brain. Can you not see that the officer's behaviour had the potential to add oil to the fire?

Any word on the old man?

OK, I stand corrected, I was wrong and will re-watch the video again and look for the terrible ways these men are behaving. You see what you look for.

Yes they are trained to be better than this and I never said what they did was right. Of course there were better ways to handle a man getting in your face like that. But they chose to be bullies.

Me, a lowly civilian, would have at the very least been on the ground checking the unconscious bleeding man right away, like my BLS training taught me. I guess the Buffalo police force don’t get BLS training - or they just didn’t CARE 😡.

(I know one appeared to have tried - the fact that others that stopped them and kept walking is despicable)

But you tried to make excuses for it. By your own way of thinking, watch it again and imagine that's your elderly father/husband/uncle etc and think how you'd feel. Hopefully, you'll feel as sickened as the rest of us.
He was pushed and fell backwards so hard blood was running from his ears, no one stopped to help him. That is inexcusable.

I posted the video yesterday in the police thread.

These are not good cops—the one who shoved the many, and the rest of them for not calling for help (which they gave a duty to do) and the rest for walking on by leaving him to lay there—and it looked like he was bleed from the back of the head.

Show me just one good police officer there...just one.

 "Tripped"? Like hell he did. They've got a nerve, with video evidence.

This is all just heart-breaking. 

Was it this one from Salt Lake city a few days ago - shocking at the best of times but to push an old man walking away with the aid of a cane is beyond comprehension.

This man who helped an injured San Jose policeman during George Floyd protest was later himself shot with a rubber bullet when he went to the aid of a teenager that had been shot in the head with a rubber bullet. Yet, the policeman who shot him was given a pass by his chief because" he's a good kid"!