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The Terrifying History of Bad Cops in Buffalo
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No fewer than four men of color have died as the result of encounters with Buffalo police in the past three years. Then a 75-year-old got knocked down.
Jim Heaney
Published Jun. 06, 2020 4:54AM ET
This story was published in partnership with Investigative Post, a non-profit investigative reporting center in Buffalo, New York.
Its the shove seen round the world: two Buffalo cops push a demonstrator who falls, slams his head on the pavement, and immediately begins to bleed from the ears.
City officials wasted no time in suspending the two officers seen on the video shoving the demonstrator, who, it turns out, is 75 years old and fighting cancer.
Suffice to say, this is not a good look for the police.
But never ones to back downBuffalo cops can be a belligerent bunchthey responded by organizing a mass resignation of the 57 officers from the team designated to deal with protests and other large crowds. They are keeping their jobs, but giving up their assignments on what is considered an elite response team. Rank and file are said to be disgruntled, as well.
John Evans, president of the Police Benevolent Association, emailed his membership and characterized the suspensions this way: They tried to fuck over these guys like I have never seen in my 54 years.
More:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-terrifying-history-of-bad-cops-in-buffalo
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The Terrifying History of Bad Cops in Buffalo (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jun 2020
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tblue37
(65,483 posts)1. K&R for visibility. nt
dalton99a
(81,569 posts)2. Police Benevolent Association
Nice name
onetexan
(13,057 posts)3. Benevolent my foot. They dont deserve to be cops & should all be fired.
The 2 cops who pushed the poor older gentleman should be fired & charged.
MurrayDelph
(5,300 posts)4. Police Benevolent Association:
"Nice city you got here. It'd be a shame if anything were to happen to it."