A team of 57 Buffalo police officers resigned en masse on Friday to show support for two colleagues who were suspended without pay following their aggressive behavior at a George Floyd protest. A graphic trending video captured Thursday by the NPR affiliate WBFO shows two police officers shoving a 75-year-old protester to the ground and walking away. The two officers were suspended without pay. The video also shows the officers’ colleagues walking past the protester, who doesn’t get up, as blood pours from his ears and onto the sidewalk. The Buffalo Police Benevolent Association told the Investigative Post that dozens of their colleagues were so unhappy with the suspensions that they resigned from their posts.”Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders, ” said John Evans, the union’s president, told the news outlet. While the 57 officers resigned from the unit, they remain members of the police force, according to Spectrum News. The video showing 75-year-old Martin Gugino being pushed to the ground is one of many documented incidents of police aggression during the national George Floyd protests. In the video, the man can be seen approaching a group of officers in riot gear. As the man approaches, two officers can be seen pushing the man backward. One officer is seen using his baton to force the man backward, while another officer can be seen shoving the man’s chest. An initial statement from a Buffalo Police Department representative said that [More]