BREAKING
BREAKING TONIGHT - MASS RESIGNATION. NEARLY 5 DOZEN
MEMBERS OF THE
BUFFALO POLICE RIOT
RESPONSE TEAM
QUOTE "RESIGN IN
DISGUST"...
AFTER WHAT
HAPPENED FOLLOWING
THIS INCIDENT... THIS
TIME YESTERDAY.
TWO OFFICERS WERE
SUSPENDED WITHOUT
PAY AFTER AN ELDERLY
MAN WAS PUSHED TO
THE GROUND.
SO THE ENTIRE SQUAD
QUIT.
POLICE HAD SAID THE
MAN WAS INJURED
WHEN HE TRIPPED AND
FELL...
BUT MANY SAY THIS
VIDEO TELLS A VERY
DIFFERENT STORY.
GOOD EVENING.
THE WEEK IS ENDING
MUCH LIKE IT BEGAN -
WITH TENSIONS
FLARING.
PEOPLE DEMANDING
CHANGE... AND AN END
TO POLICE BRUTALITY.
HERE'S A LIVE LOOK AT
DOWNTOWN BUFFALO...
AND NIAGARA
SQUARE...
WHERE MORE
PROTESTS ARE
GETTING UNDERWAY
RIGHT NOW... JUST
TWO HOURS BEFORE
TONIGHTS CURFEW
BEGINS... AND WITHOUT
THOSE 57 OFFICERS...
WE HAVE TEAM
COVERAGE TONIGHT
BEGINNING LIVE...
WITH 2 ON YOUR SIDE'S
DAVE MCKINLEY.
DAVE MCKINLEY.
THE
THE OFFICERS THAT RESIGNED ARE MEANT TO HELP MANAGE
LARGE CROWDS LIKE
THESE... SO WITHOUT
THEM... THERE'S SOME
CONCERN THINGS
COULD GET OUT OF
HAND.
LET'S GO LIVE TO
CHANNEL 2'S STEVE
BROWN...
STEVE... IT'S
IMPORTANT TO NOTE
THAT THEY DO REMAIN
ON THE FORCE...
THEY'RE JUST NOT ON
THAT SPECIAL
EMERGENCY
RESPONSE TEAM
ANYMORE.
ANYMORE.
THE
THE CITY
THE CITY OF BUFFALO'S POLICE DEPARTMENT. IS
SUDDEN MINUS AN
ENTIRE UNIT.
TODAY. ALL 57-
MEMBERS OF THE
EMEGENCY
EMEGENCY RESPONSE TEAM RESIGNED FROM THAT UNIT IN PROTEST.
THEY AND THE UNION
POLICE UNION
PRESIDENT ARE
ANGRY.
ANGRY.
ANGRY. THIS IS THE SHORT
POST. DATED TODAY ON THE BUFFALO
POLICE BENEVOLENT
ASSCOIATION WEBSITE.
FROM PRESIDENT
JOHN EVANS:. "THESE
GUYS DID NOTHING BUT
DO
DO WHAT
DO WHAT THEY WERE ORDERED TO DO. THIS
IS
IS DISGUSTING. FOLLOWED BY THREE EXCLAMTION POINTS.
THE GUYS EVANS
REFERS
REFERS TO
REFERS TO ARE THE TWO MEMBERS OF THE E-R-T WHO WERE
SUSPENDED. AFTER
AN INCIDENT LAST
NIGHT.
WHILE CLEARING
NIAGARA SQUARE
AFTER THE 8 P-M
CURFEW HAD COME.
TWO OFFICER WERE
APPROACHED BY AN
OLDER MAN.
ONE OF THE OFFICERS
PUSHED THE MAN.
HE STUMBLED
BACKWARDS. FELL
AND HIS HIS HEAD
HARD ON THE
SIDEWALK.
THOSE TWO E-R-T
OFFICER WERE
SUSPENDED BY MAYOR
BYRON BROWN. AND
THAT SPARKED THE
MASS RESIGNATION OF
THE UNIT.
THIS AFTERNOON.
THE MAYOR ISSUED A
STATEMENT WHICH
STATEMENT WHICH
READS
READS IN
READS IN PART. "CONTINGENCY PLANS ARE IN PLACE TO
MAINTAIN POLICE
SERVICES AND ENSURE
PUBLIC SAFETY WITHIN
OUR COMMUNITY.
THE BUFFALO POLICE
CONTINUE TO ACTIVELY
WORK WITH THE NEW
YORK STATE POLICE
AND OTHER
COOPERATING
AGENCIES."
COOPERATING AGENCIES." 2 ON-YOUR-SIDE HAS
LEARNED THAT NOW
MORE NEW YORK STATE
TROOPERS ARE BEING
SENT TO THE CITY.
EARLIER
EARLIER THIS WEEK. 150 TROOPERS WERE SENT IN BY GOVERNOR
ANDREW CUOMO TO
ASSIST WITH POLICING
DEMONSTRATIONS.
WE DO NOT HAVE THE
SPECIFIC ADDITIONAL
NUMBER HEDAED FOR
BUFFALO. BUT WE ARE
TOLD MORE ARE ONE
THE WAY.
THE WAY.
THE WAY. FOR THOSE
FOR THOSE
FOR THOSE WONDERING WHETHER THE NATIONAL GUARD
WIL ALSO BE BROUGHT
IN. WE ARE TOLD
FROM A CITY SOURCE
AND THE GOVERNOR'S
OFFICE THAT NO
REQUESTS FOR THE
NATIONAL GUARD HAS
BEEN MADE.
IN BUFFALO. STEVE
BROWN. CHANNEL 2
NEWS.
NEWS.
GOV.
GOV. ANDREW CUOMO