Old man pushed to the ground by police in Buffalo, starts bleeding from head. Oddly, police officers do nothing
What is going on there? An old man is pushed by a police officer, he slams his head to the ground, starts bleeding immediately. The police officer that pushed him tries to see if he is OK as soon as he sees the blood, but another officer holds him back and makes him walk as if nothing happened.
Then other police officers walk by the bleeding old man as if nothing happened. It's only a national guard soldier that start helping the guy.
This happened in Buffalo NY.
Byron Brown, Buffalo's Mayor, and chair of the NY Democratic Party, issued the following statement. It is at odds with the video.
>Tonight, after a physical altercation between two separate groups of protesters participating in an illegal demonstration beyond the curfew, two Buffalo Police officers knocked down a 75-year-old man. The victim is in stable but serious condition at ECMC. I was deeply disturbed by the video, as was Buffalo Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood. He directed an immediate investigation in the matter, and the two officers have been suspended without pay. After days of peaceful protests and several meetings between myself, Police leadership and members of the community, tonight's event is disheartening. I hope to continue to build on the progress we have achieved as we work together to address racial injustice and inequity in the City of Buffalo. My thought are with the victim tonight.
Mayor's narrative makes it sound as if it was during a fight. And it is clearly false: only one guy pushed the old man. The second guy prevented the first from helping the old man afterwards.
Why did the second police officers act in this way? Did he have instructions (pure hypothesis, I do not know)?
Poor old guy. Whatever he was doing, he clearly was no threat to anyone.
sources:
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1268716877355810818
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1268747240518103040