Remember when an old man tried to relive his glory days by harassing the pigs, and he fell and cracked his head after being shoved?
The Hill:
In the video, both Torgalski and McCabe appear to shove Gugino, who then loses his balance and falls to the ground, cracking his head on the concrete pavement. Gugino spent multiple weeks at the hospital recovering from his wounds.
In a court ruling on Friday, arbitrator Jeffrey Selchick said that Gugino wasn’t an innocent bystander and that no evidence proved the two officers deliberately tried to injure him.
“Gugino, after the force was applied to him, appears to have not been able to keep his balance for reasons that might well have had as much to do with the fact that he was holding objects in each hand or his advanced age,” Selchick said.
Selchick also said in his ruling that the 75-year-old man may have surprised the officers, which could interfere with the officer’s performance of their duties, the ruling said.
NBC-
In a decision Friday, arbitrator Jeffrey Selchick wrote, “Upon review, there is no evidence to sustain any claim that Respondents (police officers) had any other viable options other than to move Gugino out of the way of their forward movement.”
The level of force used by the officers was justified because Gugino refused to comply with orders to leave the scene and was acting erratically, and walked directly in front of McCabe, according to Selchick.
“The use of force employed by Respondents reflected no intent on their part to do more than to move Gugino away from them,” he wrote.
Wear a better helmet than the pigs next time.
Good thing he wasn’t black.
“… no intent …”
Comes up a lot, doesn’t it?
How does one know the “intent” of anyone other than himself?
Mind Reader?
Fuckin BULLSHIT!
Never attribute to chance what can safely be attributed to malice.
The “judge” should err on the side of caution and get these uniformed malefactors off the street.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
The push was minimal. The guy lost his balance and basically tripped over his own feet as he tried to backpedal.
…best way to not get pushed down during a riot is to not go to a riot.
So The Party’s loyal member, is saying there is Party approval to push loyal Party members out of the way? When they approach you.
Funny that he’s the only one around the cops. Shouldn’t have been there doing whatever he was doing which looks like trying to relive the ’60’s. “PEACE LOVE DOVE, MAN!”
Grandpa wanted to be somebody and sacrificed his body for the “cause”. How’d that work out for ya, SJW hero?
Unless a cop tells me to do something unsafe or morally wrong I will comply. For my safety and for his, I have family and friends in law enforcement and they are great people. I know there are some bad ones out there and I’ve dealt with a few, but never gave them a reason to harm me. Overall they are for the good of society through the enforcement of the law. It’s the best we can do and it works well for all who peacefully comply.
I suppose if it were the Capitol Police they would of just shot him in the neck.
From hero to zero in a matter of seconds. Libtards do not possess the ability to see things from all angles.
Don’t interfere with the police, you won’t get pushed by them. Seriously? You get pushed, you stumble backward a few steps, and fall down. This is not on the police, this is on you.
Hey, I am a bell-end. Push me so I can sue you!!
He was asking for it.
He wanted to participate and challenge the police, his mistaken choice
Old man impeded officers and was warned away. Dude then initiated unwelcome contact with officers. Reasonable force was used. Old geezer brought it on himself
That guy has a history of this kind of crap.
He should have become a WWF wrestler
He’s an antifa activist and he, along with a professional photographer (for antifa) were seen talking a few minutes before the incident. Weird how the photographer was in just the right position to film it all…
Without the police, we’d be in a Mad Max world.
Thank God the police were cleared.
Those stupid cops… yes stupid… should know better than to shove a senior citizen like that. It’s incidents like this that breed resentment against cops. These cops at the most basic level should know how to deal with seniors and younger people.
At age 75 a heavy fart will knock you over.
Funny you all go defending the police officers. They saw the blood running from behind his head and kept walking. Who does that?
Yet ANOTHER instance of “We investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong”.
This is another reason I became a telephone man. Telephones either work, or don’t. Correct voltage? Correct mA? Correct polarity? Correct provisioning? Correct loss, correct dBrnC? Correct stress readings which means nothing to something?
I went to cop school.
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