Buffalo police initially said in a statement that a person was injured when he tripped & fell, WIVB-TV reported, but Capt.
(Mike Desmond/WBFO via AP)BUFFALO, N.Y. – BUFFALO, N.Y.Two Buffalo police officers were charged with assault Saturday, prosecutors said, after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester in recent demonstrations over the death of George Floyd.
One officer leans down to check on the injured man before another officer urges the colleague to keep walking.
But dozens of Buffalo police officers who were angered over their fellow officers’ suspensions stepped down from the department’s crowd control unit Friday.
“It was tremendous, tremendous to see,” John Evans, president of the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association, told WIVB-TV.