Elderly man horribly hurt by Buffalo police

Walk round him? Maybe?

The man did not grab the police officer. What are you talking about? Also, what do you think about the initial departmental statement that the elderly man “tripped and fell” in spite of a video showing he was pushed? When the man was on the ground bleeding and the officers just kept on walking, how did you feel?

Enough with the excuses, please. Just please. Enough already.

Law enforcement officers who EVERYBODY knows face risks and have to make split-second decisions every single day, are to enforce laws. That’s why they’re called law enforcement officers. Enforce. Not abuse. Enforce. Not unjustifiably injure, maim or kill.

I’ve seen the video multiple times and it’s horrifying to see. And then the image of blood that was almost instantaneous and officers walking past him just adds to the shock and horror.

I am very concerned about how many images of police being aggressive or downright brutal we are seeing at these protests. And we are seeing them because there are lots of news people there covering these assaults - and sometimes the reporters are the victims of the assaults.

A couple thoughts:
These are happening while people are watching. How many are happening that we haven’t seen? How many happen every day under other circumstances?
Police officers who would assault citizens while they know there are observers everywhere - what are they doing when we don’t see them?
Someone lied about the man tripping and falling, maybe many someones. If there weren’t video, it would be one man's word against a whole bunch of police officers. Want to bet that the police would get away with it in that case?

Not all police officers are bad cops. But any cop who closes his/her eyes or doesn’t speak up or do the right thing when he/she sees the bad actions, cannot claim to be a good cop either.

Oh my god, that's horrific!

That could be my father, your father, or a husband. Your brother.

And they shoved him, and left him for dead. They had no idea if bleeding from the ear meant he was dying. And they didn't care.

Is that what Protect & Serve means?

I feel sick and I'm holding back tears. How can anyone defend that?!

Press conference right now about it.

Thanks. I worked from home today. Hopefully it stays peaceful as we are only 6 miles down the road from City Hall.

It’s fine. Probably should’ve made it clearer I meant it that way. I had just been thinking it’s not outside the realm of possibility for police to be confronted with a scenario like that, at some point.

Stay safe, anmore.

My husband deals with angry customers all the time (yes, screaming and cursing) and if he pushed someone and they fell like this, he’d be in jail. Why on earth does anyone think this behaviour is acceptable because they are a police officer?

My husband is an old man.

About a year ago my husband and I were coming home from the grocery store. We came down the street behind us to circle around so we could enter our driveway positioned to unload the groceries. As we came down the street there was a bunch of cop cars. I have never seen that in my neighborhood before. At one house directly behind us there were six or eight cops standing on the front lawn, laughing and joking around with each other. Whatever the incident, it was clearly over and they were waiting for something.

I was driving and my husband was in the passenger seat. His side of the car was where the cops were. I stopped in the street and my husband rolled down his window and politely said, I live on the next street over, could you tell me what is going on? A bitch with a badge put her hand on her gun, advanced toward our car and said, You don't need to know and if you don't leave I'll arrest you.

My husband told her to go fuck herself and stop acting like a two year old. We left and went around the block to our home. All her fellow cops were laughing at her badass posturing. She was too stupid to know they were laughing at her because she looked ridiculous. Not one of them told her to knock it off.

All she had to say was, we can't talk about the investigation right now but be assured there is no danger and the situation is under control.

My white neighbor across the street from me went around the block and the cops invited him to come onto the lawn and stand with them and gave him all of the details of the drug bust. The people busted were middle class white people.

So if anyone wonders why I am so strident with my condemnation of cops this is just one small example of many, many encounters with them, and this was a nothing compared to some of the things my husband has put up with over the decades. And that friends, is why I would never call a cop for assistance.

I have no words. Literally! My jaw is hanging on the floor!

Their recourse was to step around him. There was no "crowd" that prevented them from moving forward. They seemed quite capable of stepping around him once he was on the ground? That kind of defeats the argument that they had no other choice.

It does seem really troubling to me that police would "resign" in support of this use of force, but it does also explain why they were all stepping around a gentleman bleeding on the ground.

Interested as of what they will say!

You are not the only one!