The incident, from this weekend:
⚠️⚠️⚠️Officer Aaron Torgalski of Buffalo PD pushed a 75 year old man to the ground in Niagara Square today. Pushing him to the ground with excessive force caused a bleeding head wound. The police claimed he “tripped” and was injured. The officer is on immediate leave without pay pic.twitter.com/6QFCQwcgwd
— Ashlyn (@ashlyn3161) June 5, 2020
Naturally, it caused a stir (although it was one of many videos showing police brutality from this past week of protests)
Here’s the first half of the batshit OANN segment Trump just tweeted. It alleges the 75 year old man assaulted by Buffalo police officers was an antifa operative, based on a report from Conservative Treehouse. pic.twitter.com/CeMVyJcoh8
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) June 9, 2020
Apparent information flow:
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 9, 2020
– Some people on the Internet →
– The website Conservative Treehouse →
– A Russian state media veteran now working for One America News Network →
– The president of the United States
Antifa: We are going to flood the zone with senior citizens for police to knock over and bleed out of their ears.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 9, 2020
OAN founder saying the network will double down on this insane conspiracy theory they are floating. https://t.co/Jvxy9mZiAq
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 9, 2020
It's been over 3 hours since Trump tweeted a conspiracy that 75-year-old Buffalo protester Martin Gugino "could be an ANTIFA provocateur" who staged his fall
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) June 9, 2020
…. Fox News hasn't mentioned it once
Only in America can a 75 year old man get shoved by the police, hit his head on the pavement with blood pouring out his ears, get a subdural hematoma requiring serial CT scans and even a possible craniotomy, and the President of the United States calls him a terrorist on Twitter.
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) June 9, 2020
UPDATE: Trump deleted the tweet, but the Internet is forever.