Police unit resigns in protest

[brooklynite]

Source: Investigative Post

A special squad on the Buffalo Police department – the Emergency Response Team – has resigned from their posts, according the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association.

The announcement comes one day after two members were suspended without pay when a video surfaced, showing them pushing over a 75-year-old protestor, causing injury.

“Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” said John Evans, PBA president.

The special response unit was formed in 2016 and is deployed to manage mass protests or riots.

Read more: https://www.investigativepost.org/2020/06/05/police-unit-resigns-in-protest/

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"executing" is a heck of a Freudian slip...

[bamagal62]

1. Don't let the door hit ya!

[ace3csusm]

3. They only resigned from task force

they are still in the department..

[SharonAnn]

15. It's a threat, they figure they'll have to be rehired.

They're objecting to their compatriots being disciplined.

That sure wouldn't work in a private company. You resign, you're gone!

[dem4decades]

2. They had an order to push over old men? And lie about it after?

[durablend]

5. Republicans, no doubt!

[dem4decades]

18. They can turn in their badges and weapons too.

[enough]

4. Sounds like a good first step to defunding the police. NT

[ouija]

7. Bye

[MurrayDelph]

6. I've said it before

We need to de-certify any union that calls itself, "Benevolent," "Federation," or "Protective league."

All of these sound, and behave akin to the "Friends of Italian Opera."

[ZenDem]

8. Let's just say...

...that they were 'just following orders'. Do their orders also include pushing a man down and ignore the pool of blood under his head while he remains motionless? No one stopped. When one tried, another pulled him away. They consciously walked away from a man that needed help. They made the decision to let a man suffer because they were 'just following orders'.

[dem4decades]

19. Who were they serving and protecting at that point? Themselves?

I don't think that's what it means.

[Grokenstein]

9. Wow, they actually went with "Ve vere chust followink orders."

But now they can join Generalissimo Corpulente's goon squad full-time.

[abakan]

10. gee where have we heard that excuse before?

"We were just following orders." Nuremberg

[relayerbob]

11. Can we get all of the dickheads to quit, everywhere?

[Bradshaw3]

12. Tells you everything you need to know about police culture

While the rest of the world was disgusted at the treatment of a an elderly man, they were "disgusted" at the treatment of their officers. Watching not just the act but the others walking by reminded me so much of Hitler's troopers either enjoying or unconcerned with the treatment of civilian Germans that it made me sick.

As Killer Mike just said, we have had a police brutality problem in this country for 400 years against black people, but now video is bringing it into people's living rooms. And this response here shows just how systemic it is and why it has to be dealt with on that level.

[forgotmylogin]

16. Can't stand the heat...

...don't work in the circus.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Now resign from the force completely.

[Delphinus]

34. Yes! (n/m)

[sop]

14. The implied threat is: "The next time Buffalo needs us to quell an uprising, you're on your own!"

Imagine if other professions, instead of policing their own when they were accused or found guilty of malfeasance, responded the same way. Doctors would refuse to treat anyone if one of their own was sued for malpractice. Teachers wouldn't teach if another teacher was fired. This is how police unions always respond when investigated and held accountable.

They want us to know that unless cops are allowed to ride roughshod over certain groups of citizens, the public can deal with crime and violence themselves in the future. Police unions are petulantly holding a loaded gun to the public's head to get their way. That's the definition of police terrorism.

[alwaysinasnit]

17. After watching that video, it occurred to me that, if an elderly white man was treated that

way, I shudder to think how they would treat a POC. And the fact that this Emergency Response Team is absolutely behind the cops who did that, shows that they too are cut from the same cloth. The vicious conduct followed by the callous disregard for the harm they caused has boggled by mind. I used to think that the bad cops are in the minority but after seeing so much evidence of inhumanity by LEO's, I'm beginning to think I got that ass-backwards.

[Scalded Nun]

20. Little Nazi Cowards

John Evans, president of the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association: “These officers did nothing wrong but execute an order from the [Deputy Police Commissioner] to clear the Square. They do not deserve to be vilified and treated like criminals for simply following orders.”

These guys would have done great work at Auschwitz...Just following those orders. If they really have resigned, then let's hope they stay gone and are not allowed back in uniform.

[Coventina]

21. FTP & ACAB

[Codifer]

22. I am a seventy five year old man

and I am disgusted to a degree that is, by now, almost meaningless. It merely gets lost in the deep of the overall depression.

I start to remember having been bullied by cops in the 60's (late 60's as mid 60's was SE Asia), I remember the narcs breaking into my house as my fiance and I were in our underwear watching Star Trek on a Friday night. I do not like guns pointed at me by bullies that never advanced out of their high school angst. I do not appreciate going to jail for half a joint and a foot tall plant named Abigale. At that time in California, simple possession was a felony.

I remember that treasonous st ronnie reagan saying "If it takes a bloodbath, let's have a bloodbath" when he was trying to quell the protests at the University of California.

The evil that we fight is old and deeply entrenched in willful ignorance and hatred and greed.

Welcome to my fucking "Golden" years.

How many of those fucks are on steroids so that they can have huge biceps?

This whole thing is "the Stanford Experiment" on testosterone and acid. It is a fascist wet dream. Fuck them!

I am in desperate need of a few pints.

[NBachers]

28. This 71 year old People's Park alumnus relates to your entire post. Thanks for putting it out there

RIP James Rector

[Bradshaw3]

33. Well said

I can relate too. We have to remember that for all of us protestors there were out there, there were many more of the ilk who elected raygun and the bushes in the years that followed. Which leaves us where we are today.

[Hip2bSquare]

23. Not all heros wear capes!

75-year-old protestor!! May I be graced with that much fire and energy to fight for what's right when I get to that age!! Let's pray for his speedy recovery while still in the middle of this nightmare pandemic. And to those 57, they obviously have no clue what disgusting is.

[we can do it]

24. Bye Felicia

[AC_Mem]

25. Bu-Bye

Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

[Progressive Jones]

27. They only resigned from that special detail. They are still regular cops. Fire them all. nt

[Progressive Jones]

26. Fire them all. No pensions, no recourse. nt

[radius777]

29. this is the problem, they operate like a cartel

and always view themselves as the victim.

until the police unions are reformed nothing will really change.

[paleotn]

30. Que Curly Bill once again.....

[herding cats]

31. Hey, pushing and leaving an elderly man to lay there pouring blood out of his ear isn't a big deal.

It's a days work. Following orders of the higher ups and just doing your duty. Said not a single person ever with a sense of decency.

We need to add this gentleman to the reasons why we protest. That was an obvious abuse of power and the person who pushed him knew he'd f'd up (from his body language) and still did nothing because he didn't want to draw attention to his act. It's disgusting!

These people who took this stance are little more than pack animals. They've lost their humanity.

[Owl]

32. Good riddance!