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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.