Two Buffalo, New York police officers were suspended without pay after a video showed them pushing a 75-year-old man to the ground as protests against the police murder of George Floyd continued into their tenth night.
The video taken by a reporter for the local public radio station WBFO and published on his website and Twitter account shows the white haired man approaching a row of officers in riot gear.
An officer pushes him with a baton and a second with his hand. The sound of a crack is heard, then blood flows from the man’s head.
The man, who is white, is not identified.
“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 leaders and members of the community, this evening’s event is disheartening.”
The incident was widely condemned on social networks as protesters returned to the streets of several American cities to protest against police brutality.
Floyd died in Minneapolis on May 25 after former police officer Derek Chauvin put his knee to his neck for nearly nine minutes during an arrest.
The Buffalo video shows that the majority of officers parade after the man’s fall, although the officer who pushed him with a baton begins to lean over him before he is fired by another officer.
We hear someone call a doctor.
The radio station reported that two doctors showed up and helped the man into an ambulance.
Police later said a man was injured after tripping and falling, the radio station said. But after watching the video, Buffalo Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood ordered an investigation and suspended the two officers, said Brown.
The 75-year-old victim was in stable but serious condition at the Erie County Medical Center hospital in Buffalo, said Brown.
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