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The 75-year-old man shoved to the ground by Buffalo, New York, police during a George Floyd protest has filed a lawsuit against the mayor and the city as well as the police commissioner, deputy commissioner and several officers.
According to the lawsuit, Martin Gugino was seriously injured on June 4, suffering a fractured skull after his head struck the pavement. He was released from the Erie County Medical Center on June 30.
Minutes after Buffalo’s 8 p.m. curfew went into effect on June 4, officers “unlawfully, unreasonably and forcibly” assaulted Gugino, the lawsuit filed Monday said. The suit alleges that an officer shoved him after emergency response team members said to “push him.”
Members of the militarized emergency response team who were on scene to enforce the curfew then “walked by without care” as the 75-year-old “lay unconscious on the sidewalk, blood pouring from his fractured skull,” the suit said.
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