Buffalo, New York: 2 Cops Will Not Face Discipline For Pushing a 75-Year-Old to the Ground.

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    Two Cops Will Not Face Discipline For Pushing a 75-Year-Old to the Ground. You Can Thank the Police Union.

    The ordeal highlights how collective bargaining in the public sphere has stacked almost every factor against alleged victims of police misconduct.


    The last two years brought a reckoning around public sector unions, the collective-bargaining groups that represent workers in government positions. A recent story reminds us why. On June 4, 2020, 75-year-old Martin Gugino captured much of the nation's attention after a clip showed the man walking up to police officers at a protest in Buffalo, New York, and talking with them briefly before two officers shoved him to the ground. An arbitrator—hired by the Buffalo Police Benevolent Association, the police union—announced last week that Officers Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe acted judiciously when they pushed Gugino to the pavement, after ...


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