A 75-year-old man who was seen being shoved to the ground by Buffalo police and bleeding on the ground during a protest last year is suing the officers and other officials, according to court documents.

A prosecutor filed charges against two Buffalo police officers, Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski, but a grand jury earlier this month declined charges, and the case was dismissed.

Those two officers are named in the civil suit, as well as a third who was not charged, along with the city, police commissioner and Mayor Byron Brown.

The complaint says that the police team "yelled out in chorus, 'push him, push him'" after Gugino approached a line of police officers with batons and helmets.

After charges were declined earlier this month, the president of the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association defended the officers' actions