Buffalo Police quit unit in support of two officers who assaulted elderly man

[The Barbarian]

The entire Buffalo Police Department Emergency Response Team — a total of 57 officers — has resigned from the team in support of the two officers who pushed 75-year-old Martin Gugino to the ground, seriously injuring him.


They are still employed, but no longer on ERT.


According to Buffalo Police Benevolent Association president John Evans, the cops who pushed Gugino down were just following orders.
57 Buffalo cops resign to support suspended officers who pushed down elderly man

That's what Hermann Goring said. "I was just following orders."

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

It's a very good thing that these men decided that if they couldn't assault old men with impunity, they didn't want to be on the team any more. They should be assigned duties that don't bring them into contact with citizens.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

The entire Buffalo Police Department Emergency Response Team — a total of 57 officers — has resigned from the team in support of the two officers who pushed 75-year-old Martin Gugino to the ground, seriously injuring him.


They are still employed, but no longer on ERT.


According to Buffalo Police Benevolent Association president John Evans, the cops who pushed Gugino down were just following orders.
57 Buffalo cops resign to support suspended officers who pushed down elderly man

That's what Hermann Goring said. "I was just following orders."

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

It's a very good thing that these men decided that if they couldn't assault old men with impunity, they didn't want to be on the team any more. They should be assigned duties that don't bring them into contact with citizens.

They forgot their oath to serve and protect.

 

[public hermit]

That's what Hermann Goring said. "I was just following orders."

“Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” Evans, said in a statement

Such acts done because one is "just following orders," without reflecting on how it affects others, is the kind of thing that led Hannah Arendt to coin the phrase "the banality of evil."

 

[The Barbarian]

Such acts done because one is "just following orders," without reflecting on how it affects others, is the kind of thing that led Hannah Arendt to coin the phrase "the banality of evil."

It is the nature of authoritarians to believe that "orders" justify anything, legal or not.

Such people should not be allowed any measure of power.

There's a reason the Gestapo never wore name tags or badge numbers. They kept a warrant tag in a buttoned pocket for identification by superiors or other government officials.

 

[The Barbarian]

They forgot their oath to serve and protect.

Actually, most of them never had that oath. "Serve and protect" is a slogan they paint on their cars. They do swear an oath to defend the Constitution, but some of them forget it.

I suspect that this unit was corrupted over a period of years, until they thought of themselves as unaccountable for anything they did. Hence their shock and outrage when two of their own were punished for assaulting a nonviolent old man, and severely injuring him.

 

[The Barbarian]

And there's more good news for America:

Police are increasingly aligning with the protesters. Good for America, not so good for racists.

 

[jgarden]

Buffalo Police quit unit in support of two officers who assaulted elderly man

Apparently these members of the Buffalo Police have yet to realize that in the 21stC offices should assume that when they assault and injure a 75 year-old man in public its all going to be recorded by someone on video and that the past excuses such as he was resisting arrest no longer pass the "smell test!"

The death of George Floyd finally passed society's "tipping point" whereby when supported by video evidence, the general public is no longer prepared to accept those stock excuses provided by some officers in their attempt to shift the blame for their excesses onto the victims!

 

[The Barbarian]

The death of George Floyd finally passed society's "tipping point" whereby when supported by video evidence, the general public is no longer prepared to accept those stock excuses provided by some officers in their attempt to shift the blame for their excesses onto the victims!

Yes, I believe so. Even many police now realize that things have to change and change drastically.

There's been a sea change in public opinion that will make it happen, I think.