The New Nurse Ratched – Kim Hafner

Dark Tales of Ex-Slug Queen

https://rosamondpress.com/2020/06/03/bible-thumper-in-chief/

https://rosamondpress.com/2019/08/12/praise-be-to-zardoz/

https://rosamondpress.com/2018/10/29/dark-tales-of-ex-slug-queen/

“Utterly disgraceful” was Governor Andrew Cuomo’s reaction to a video showing two police officers shoving an elderly man to the pavement at a demonstration in Buffalo, New York, on the tenth night of protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody.

The WBFO video, which has been viewed over 38 million times on Twitter, shows a cluster of police officers in riot gear walking across Buffalo’s Niagara Square following demonstrations earlier in the evening.

As an elderly man approaches the police and tries to talk with the officers, someone can be heard shouting, “Push him back!” One officer raises his baton over the man, while another pushes the man’s chest.

The 75-year-old man falls to the ground backwards and lies, apparently unresponsive, as a pool of blood is seen slowly forming under his head.

The Buffalo Police Department’s initial statement was that “one person was injured when he tripped & fell” in a skirmish between police and protesters. But minutes later, local station WBFO broadcast the video of the incident, prompting an Internal Affairs investigation and Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood’s move to suspend the two officers.

The man, who has not been identified, and was in “serious, but stable condition” at the Erie County Medical Center.

“I was deeply disturbed by the video,” said Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, in a statement. “After days of peaceful protests and several meetings between myself, police leadership and members of the community, tonight’s event is disheartening.”