Cuomo said that he spoke on the phone with the man, who 'is thankfully alive' after being knocked to the ground in Buffalo by police officers.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo applauded the suspension of two Buffalo police officers seen on video pushing a 75-year-old man on the ground.The two officers have been suspended without pay, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a daily briefing at North Shore University Hospital, during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in Manhasset, New York, May 6, 2020.Calling a video of western New York cops pushing a 75-year-old man to a sidewalk "fundamentally offensive and frightening," Gov. Andrew Cuomo applauded the resulting suspension of two Buffalo police officers on Friday. Cuomo told reporters that he spoke on the phone with the man, who "is thankfully alive" after being knocked to the ground in Buffalo by two heavily armored officers.as Martin Gugino, stood alone in front of an approaching line of police officers, video of the incident shows. As he gestured to one of the cops, others yelled for him to move back, and two officers pushed him in the chest, knocking him over backward. The video showed blood coming from the man's head as he lay motionless on the ground. Police did not immediately tend to him. "You see that video and it disturbs your basic sense of decency and humanity," Cuomo said. "Why? Why? Why was that necessary?" Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said in a statement Thursday night that the elderly man was in "serious but stable condition" at Erie County Medical Center. "I was deeply disturbed by the video, as was Buffalo Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood," who has directed an investigation into the incident, Brown's statement said. The two officers have been suspended without pay, Brown said in the statement. The mayor noted that the incident happened after a "physical altercation between two separate groups of protesters in an illegal demonstration beyond the curfew." The altercation followed days of protests in Buffalo and across the nation in response to the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in Minneapolis after a white police officer held his knee on Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes. Violence and looting have broken out of some of the protests,"How did we get to this place?" Cuomo said at his presser, citing instances of protesters and officers alike being attacked amid the protests. Cuomo applauded the Buffalo mayor, adding "I believe the district attorney is looking into it from a possible criminal liability point of view, and I applaud the district attorney for moving quickly."on Monday night, have been criticized for their use of force against protesters. Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio have sparred over the law enforcement response to the protests, with the governor accusing the mayor of underestimating "the scope of the problem."
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