Two Buffalo Police Officers Suspended After Elderly Protester Ends Up In Hospital
Two police officers have been suspended after a violent incident involving an elderly protester during a protest over the death of George Floyd in downtown Buffalo.
Police were removing
protesters in Niagara Square when a man approached the line of officers
with what appeared to be a helmet in his hand. After approaching one
officer, the man was violently pushed to the ground, and blood could be
seen coming from the back of theman’s head where he hit the ground as
the officers passed by.
The video of the incident was captured by local WBFO news station.
I've seen videos of the incident in front of Buffalo's City Hall in which an older protester appears to have been shoved by police, fell backwards and suffered a serious head injury. It sickens me. I've confirmed he is at ECMC in stable condition. My thoughts are with him now.
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz confirmed that the 75-year-old
man in the video is in stable condition at the Erie County Medical
Center.
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After GOP Sen. Murkowski says she's 'struggling' over whether she can support Trump, president vows to campaign against her
WASHINGTON – Amid widespread protests and outrage
over President Donald Trump's response, one Republican senator said she
is struggling over whether she can support the president in November.
Sen.
Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, in an extraordinary back-and-forth with
reporters at the U.S. Capitol Thursday, backed the public condemnation
of the president offered by his former Secretary of Defense, James
Mattis, who said Trump was a threat to American democracy and aimed only
to divide the country.
Murkowski called
Mattis' comments "true, and honest, and necessary and overdue," adding
that his words led her to believe that "perhaps we are getting to a
point where we can be more honest with the concerns that we might hold
internally and have the courage of our own convictions to speak up."
Asked
whether she could continue to support the president, Murkowski said "I
am struggling with it. I have struggled with it for a long time."
She
added that she didn't support Trump in the 2016 election and was
struggling with that same decision ahead of November, but said she would
continue to work with him and represent her state.
"But," she added, "I think right now we are all struggling to find ways to express the words that need to be expressed."
In
a set of tweets, the president appeared to respond to the Alaska
Republican vowing to campaign against her and instead back any other
candidate running, no matter the person. Murkowski is up for reelection
in 2022.
"Few people know where they’ll be in
two years from now, but I do, in the Great State of Alaska (which I
love) campaigning against Senator Lisa Murkowski," Trump wrote Thursday evening. "Get any candidate ready, good or bad, I don’t care, I’m endorsing. If you have a pulse, I’m with you!"
In
the tweets, Trump noted Murkowski's record on high-profile GOP-led
proposals, including voting no during a skinny repeal of the Affordable
Care Act in 2017 and the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett
Kavanaugh in 2018.
Murkowski, who was first
elected in 2002, has proven to be a popular figure in Alaska. After
losing a primary battle in 2010 against a Tea Party candidate, she was
reelected to her seat in a write-in campaign where voters had to
physically write "Murkowski" on ballots.
Murkowski,
like other swing-state senators, has been critical of the president at
times but her remarks Thursday marked change in tone from her typical
weariness of weighing in on the day-to-day controversies related to the
president.
She was one of a number of senators who were thought to be potential swing votes during the president's impeachment trial earlier this year. But she ended up voting against hearing from additional witnesses in the trial and ultimately voted to acquit the president on both counts of obstruction of Congress and abuse of power.
Only one Republican, Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, voted to convict Trump on any of the charges, leading to Trump being acquitted.
Mattis'
statement Thursday evening marked the first time the general spoke out
about Trump since leaving the administration in 2018. His comments led
to a number of military leaders also speaking out on Trump's response to
the protests over George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died after a
white Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground with his knee
for several minutes. Trump has threatened multiple times to send
military troops to American cities to counter the protests, which in
some cities have turned violent.
"Donald Trump
is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the
American people – does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to
divide us," Mattis wrote in a statement published by The Atlantic magazine.
"We
are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate
effort," he continued. "We can unite without him, drawing on the
strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the
past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past
generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children."
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