Two Police Officers Suspended After Shoving 75-Year-Old Man to the Ground
After viral video emerged of a man shoved to the ground by police, two officers have been suspended. In the footage of the incident on Thursday in Buffalo, N.Y., which originally came from local NPR affiliate Wbfo and has since been circulated widely online, an unidentified 75-year-old man can be seen walking up to a large group of approaching police officers donning tactical gear and saying something before some officers shout at him and push him so hard that he falls backward onto the ground.
In the footage, many officers continue to walk past him as the man remains lying on the ground, a pool of what appears to be blood visibly forming at his head.
While one officer appears to kneel down toward the...