A Catholic social justice activist who was knocked to the ground by police during a protest over racism last year has sued the city of Buffalo, its mayor, the police commissioner and several police of.
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Gugino’s attorneys filed the federal lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court. The 55-page complaint alleges Gugino’s civil rights were violated when officers pushed him to the ground and injured him outside City Hall following a racial justice protest last June.
“He s seeking compensation for severe injuries he suffered as a result of being a victim of police violence,” said Richard Weisbeck, one of Gugino’s attorneys from the Buffalo law firm Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria, “and he wants to continue to protect and reinforce his constitutional rights and the rights of his fellow citizens to be able to walk into public places and have their voices heard.”
Elderly BLM protester, 75, who was shoved by Buffalo cops in unprovoked attack, falling and cracking his skull, sues the police, mayor and city after grand jury dismisses assault charges
Martin Gugino, 75, filed lawsuit in federal court, claiming his constitutional rights to freedom of speech, peaceful assembly and due process were violated
Complaint also alleges forcible assault without warning by police officers
Gugino was left with a fractured skull after he was pushed by cops during June 4 protest against George Floyd s death
Grand jury cleared officers Aaron Torgalski and Robert McCabe this month
Torgalski and McCabe remain suspended pending an internal investigation
Lawyers representing a 75-year-old protester shoved to the ground by upstate New York police during demonstrations that broke out in the days after George Floyd’s death filed a widely anticipated lawsuit in federal court Monday, less than two weeks after criminal charges against the officers involved were dropped.