All 57 members of Buffalo’s Emergency Response Team RESIGN in ‘disgust’ over the suspension and criminal probe of two cops for shoving a peace activist, 75, to the floor during protests Fifty seven officers have resigned from their positions on a Buffalo Police squad in support of two colleagues who were suspended after they were filmed shoving a 75-year-old peace activist to the ground, causing him to crack open his head. The two officers were suspended without pay and are now under criminal investigation after footage showed them knocking Martin Gugino to the ground and leaving him with critical injuries in front of Buffalo’s City Hall in upstate New York on Thursday night prior to the city’s 8pm curfew. The Buffalo Police Benevolent Association told the Investigative Post that all members of the department’s Emergency Response Team have since resigned. ‘Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders,’ PBA president John Evans said. The 57 officers have not resigned from the Buffalo Police Department – only the Emergency Response Team they were serving on. It comes after Erie County District Attorney’s Office revealed it was investigating the officers for potential criminal liability. ‘The Erie County District Attorney’s Office continues to investigate the incident captured on video outside City Hall Thursday evening that resulted in the injury of (a) protester,’ a spokeswoman for the office said in a statement on Friday. Gugino, a longtime peace activist from Amherst, is in a [More]