NEW YORK: After a video of police shoving a 75-year-old white protester who approached them in a city in New York state went viral, two of them were suspended, but all the members of the emergency team resigned in protest.
Their action on Friday amid the protests against police brutality roiling the nation brought to the fore the discontent in law enforcement as they too have been facing attacks and also their use of force.
Endorsing their suspension and calling for their firing, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called the police action "fundamentally offensive and frightening" and disturbing to the "basic sense of decency and humanity".
In the video shot during a protest on Thursday, the man, Martin Gugino, is seen walking towards a line of police in riot gear advancing in formation against protesters in Buffalo, a city near the Niagara Falls.
As he nears them a policeman shoves him with his baton and another with his hand and he falls backwards and injures his head.
Gugino was hospitalised and his lawyer told the local NBC affiliate, WGRZ, on Friday that he was "alert and oriented". (IANS)
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