In video of the incident, two officers push the protester and he hits his head on the pavement. Blood spills as officers walk past. One officer leans down to check on the injured protester before another officer urges the colleague to keep walking.
Two Buffalo police officers have been charged with assault after a video showed them shoving a 75-year-old protester in recent demonstrations over the death of George Floyd.
Mr McCabe, 32, and Mr Torgalski, 39,"crossed a line" when they shoved the man down hard enough for him to fall backward and hit his head on the sidewalk, Erie County District Attorney John Flynn said at a news conference on Saturday, calling the victim"a harmless 75-year-old man." Mr McCabe's lawyer, Tom Burton, said after the arraignment that prosecutors didn't have any grounds to bring felony charges. He said his client is a decorated military veteran with a clean record as a police officer.
The footage shows the man, identified as longtime activist Martin Gugino, approaching a line of helmeted officers holding batons as they cleared demonstrators from Niagara Square around the time of an 8pm curfew.
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