The incident, from this weekend:
⚠️⚠️⚠️Officer Aaron Torgalski of Buffalo PD pushed a 75 year old man to the ground in Niagara Square today. Pushing him to the ground with excessive force caused a bleeding head wound. The police claimed he “tripped” and was injured. The officer is on immediate leave without pay pic.twitter.com/6QFCQwcgwd
— Ashlyn (@ashlyn3161) June 5, 2020
Naturally, it caused a stir (although it was one of many videos showing police brutality from this past week of protests)
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Here’s the first half of the batshit OANN segment Trump just tweeted. It alleges the 75 year old man assaulted by Buffalo police officers was an antifa operative, based on a report from Conservative Treehouse. pic.twitter.com/CeMVyJcoh8
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) June 9, 2020
Apparent information flow:
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 9, 2020
– Some people on the Internet →
– The website Conservative Treehouse →
– A Russian state media veteran now working for One America News Network →
– The president of the United States
Antifa: We are going to flood the zone with senior citizens for police to knock over and bleed out of their ears.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 9, 2020
OAN founder saying the network will double down on this insane conspiracy theory they are floating. https://t.co/Jvxy9mZiAq
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 9, 2020
It's been over 3 hours since Trump tweeted a conspiracy that 75-year-old Buffalo protester Martin Gugino "could be an ANTIFA provocateur" who staged his fall
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) June 9, 2020
…. Fox News hasn't mentioned it once
Only in America can a 75 year old man get shoved by the police, hit his head on the pavement with blood pouring out his ears, get a subdural hematoma requiring serial CT scans and even a possible craniotomy, and the President of the United States calls him a terrorist on Twitter.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 9, 2020
UPDATE: Trump deleted the tweet, but the Internet is forever.