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Two Buffalo police officers charged with assault for allegedly shoving 75-year-old protester - Washington Post
Jun 06, 2020 1 min, 5 secs
Two Buffalo police officers have been charged with assault after video surfaced that showed police pushing an elderly protester to the ground.

While there is no federal database or agency tasked with providing information on police misconduct, a tracker maintained by Philip Stinson, a criminal justice professor at Bowling Green State University, tallied 8,495 police officers prosecuted between 2005 and 2014.

Stinson said acts of force such as pushing a protester back are common police tactics but are only now gaining more attention since these instances were taped.

The officers’ suspension triggered reaction among police: 57 members of the department resigned en masse from the special response squad in protest.

“Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,” Buffalo Police Benevolent Association President John Evans told WGRZ.

The Buffalo Police Benevolent Association and Tom Burton, a lawyer for the association who is representing the two officers, did not respond to a request for comment Saturday.

When asked about the association’s claim that he chose to charge the officers as a political stunt, Flynn said he has prosecuted six police officers in three years.

He also said the two officers should have defused Thursday’s protest instead of pushing Gugino.

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