There have been multiple incidents of police brutality caught on camera during protests over the past week as the world mourns the killing of George Floyd. Everyone with a camera phone is filming and it’s holding bad police accountable.
Recall the disturbing incident that went viral last week after two Buffalo police officers were caught on video shoving down an elderly man. The 75-year-old man was filmed lying on the ground with blood seeping out of his right ear. Video proves that as the elderly man tried to speak with officers that one officer shoves him with a baton while another officer pushed him hard using his hand. The man is then seen staggering back, falling and hitting his head on the sidewalk. A loud crack can be heard as his head hits the pavement.
Another disturbing aspect was seeing all the police officers, who swore an oath to protect and serve, walk by the elderly man without rendering aid.
After public outrage, two police offices were fired. Both men were then charged with felony assault. Other officers resigned in protest—not for the injured elderly man—but for the police officers who battered him. Most Americans believe their resignation is good riddance.
As the elderly man was recovering in the hospital, Donald Trump decided it would be to his benefit to attack and smear this elderly man. Based only on a insane conspiracy theory that originated with Russia’s Sputnik, Trump still decided that it was to his advantage to share Russian propaganda with Americans. He used Putin propaganda to attack the elderly hospitalized man. The OANN reporter Trump cited is Kristian Rouz, a Russian national who writes for Russian-owned Sputnik,
Trump posted on Twitter, “Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old ... was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment. @OANN I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?"
Trump is losing to Joe Biden in every poll and so he’s trying to distract with a Russian misinformation campaign in an effort to further divide Americans. OANN, together with Sputnik staff, work tirelessly to write bizarre conspiracy theories to demonize Democrats by calling them ANTIFA and terrorists. Nothing is too low for Trump/Putin—even smearing an injured elderly man as he lays in his hospital bed.
This leaves many Americans further convinced that Trump may be nothing more that Putin’s puppet.
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