I feel 57 bad cops lighter, don’t you?
(They’ve resigned from the tactical unit, not the department)
Sounds to me like they’re confused as to who they’re protesting for, because as I look around the internets about this story, EVERYONE says “good riddance to bad rubbish!”
It’s quite ironic that these cops are protesting, based on a lie, after they injured someone protesting for the Truth.
Now, perhaps the ones that replace them can be SCREENED FOR RACIST AND VIOLENT TENDENCIES?
And perhaps nobody has shown these “cops” the video, because they’re still lying about what happened:
ALBANY, N.Y. – An entire unit of the Buffalo Police Department resigned from their assignments Friday after two officers were suspended amid outcry over video showing officers shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground, according to the Buffalo News and other media outlets.
All 57 of the members of the department's Emergency Response Team resigned from the unit, which responds to riots and other crowd control situations, according to the outlets. The Emergency Response Team members have not quit the police department, but have stepped down from the tactical unit, the Buffalo News reported.
"Our position is these officers were simply following orders from Deputy Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia to clear the square," said Buffalo Police Benevolent Association President John Evans. "It doesn't specify clear the square of men, 50 and under or 15 to 40. They were simply doing their job. I don't know how much contact was made.
He did slip in my estimation. He fell backwards."
No, he really didn’t. There is absolutely NO question here that the two officers PUSHED him to the ground. And then left him there, bleeding.
The USAToday article continues:
The man who was pushed to the ground was recovering in a hospital.
Graphic video from WBFO shows the two officers pushing the man down as he approached them in a public square around an 8 p.m. curfew Thursday. The man stumbles back and falls, and the video shows him motionless and bleeding from his head.
This is what cops do, when there’s no camera there. Apparently, now they’re telling us not to beleive our “lying eyes”
If you watch the bystanders video to the end, you can see the cops telling them to stop filming.
The Erie County District Attorney's Office tweeted Friday that it was continuing its investigation of the incident and that the man was unable to provide a statement to investigators Thursday night.
Which means he’s either still unconscious, or he doesn’t have time for the investigators, because he is too busy selecting the perfect lawyers to sue their asses off.
Also, this:
The D.C National Guard UH-72 Lakota helicopter – with a red cross marking – that flew low over protestors in Washington made waves not only through the downwash of its rotor blades but in the shock it provoked among those with military and helicopter experience.
The crew of the helicopter that buzzed protestors in D.C. Monday night was grounded immediately after the incident, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said on Friday.
McCarthy announced that a 15-6 investigation was being conducted, which examines violations of Army regulations or standards, according to multiple news outlets covering the Pentagon.
Army investigators will provide an “interim update” of the probe later on Friday, according to a tweet from Politico’s Lara Seligman.