An elderly protester who was shoved to the ground by police officers in Buffalo, New York, sued the city on Monday after a grand jury dismissed assault charges in connection to the June incident.
Lawyers for 75-year-old Martin Gugino alleged that high-ranking officials and three uniformed officers “violated” his “constitutional rights” when they enacted a “week long curfew” and employed “unlawful and unnecessary force” against him during protests in the upstate New York following the death of George Floyd. Gugino’s legal team, which has requested a jury trial for the civil suit, further posited that Officers Robert McCabe, Aaron Torgalski, and John Losi shoved the 75-year-old man to the ground “without warning” and “walked by without care” as he “lay unconscious on the sidewalk, blood pouring from his fractured skull.”
