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Peace activist, 75, who cracked his head open and suffered a brain injury after he was pushed to the ground by Buffalo cops during Black Lives Matter protest is going into hiding after receiving death threats
2020-06-20
  • Martin Gugino has received 'concerning and threatening messages and one letter', lawyer Kelly Zarcone said Thursday

  • The elderly cancer sufferer will not return home on his release from hospital because the death threats have sparked fears over his safety

  • He suffered a skull fracture in the unprovoked attack by officers back on June 4

  • Gugino was shoved by cops while peacefully protesting in Buffalo

  • He fell to the ground, cracking his head open on the sidewalk and leaving him lying in a pool of his own blood

  • The footage went viral on social media and sparked outrage over police brutality

  • Two Buffalo cops Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski were arrested and charged with second degree assault

  • McCabe and Torgalsk were suspended and each face up to seven years in prison if convicted of the class D felony

  • The incident and subsequent charges have divided the nation, with calls mounting for widespread police reform

  • However other cops and Donald Trump have come out in defense of the officers with the president calling Gugino an 'ANTIFA provocateur'
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Posted by:Skidmark

#12  
#11
"I understand," said Chance.
Posted by: JHH   2020-06-20 21:39  

#11   When I got my journalism degree a million years ago, editorializing (explicit or implicit) was strictly discouraged.

I continue to be surprised by how many Rantburgers trained as journalists. You will have noticed, JHH, that nowadays journalists are explicitly taught that their job is to educate and nudge opinion in the proper direction. The Daily Mail is indeed a tabloid, but they publish the information we at Rantburg are interested in, and their bullet points allow the reader to quickly get key information before clicking int he link or moving on. And, should the reader be interested, they do link to local source articles, so those interested can explore in even greater depth.

We added them to as a regular source in 2015, when Chancellor Merkel opened Germany to “Syrian” refugees.They were a really good source for migrant misbehaviour stories that either were not appearing elsewhere or where key information was ordered masked. Breitbart was another — the two were the basis for the Muslim Colonist round-ups I did until they became too time consuming, even using key word searches instead of scrolling through the day’s articles.
Posted by: trailing wife   2020-06-20 20:17  

#10  As TW commented in one of the associated posts:

Heavy.com did their usual 5 Fast Facts about Mr. Gugino here. It turns out the gentleman is a long time “peace activist” associated with the Western New York Peace Center — pro-Antifa, Communist, all the usual nonsense, active on Twitter and YouTube. Heavy has several videos of the event in question, taken from different perspectives.

The was the guy who was supposedly sniffing the police Bluetooth IDs.
Posted by: KBK   2020-06-20 19:59  

#9  #6

As you wish (it was nothing personal). Just a matter of taste, I guess. When I got my journalism degree a million years ago, editorializing (explicit or implicit) was strictly discouraged. Just the facts, ma'am.
Posted by: JHH   2020-06-20 17:45  

#8  I find it interesting how the pictures are cropped and framed. For instance, the 'Security Guard' story is made to test the spreading of BLM to include Latinos. Here, we are throwing chaff to cover an agent provocateur.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-06-20 14:53  

#7  /\ Why? Probably because of their "says it all in the headline" article titles...
Posted by: magpie   2020-06-20 12:52  

#6  Why?
Pictures for some that are visual learners.

Extended and followup coverage of topics unpopular in US 'press' from international 'ugly' zones, including the US. It's world news with a UK focus as seen through a US lens.

Composition, right and left, no more opinionated than many popular blogs and titillating titles, difficult for some to parse, which encapsulate the article subject matter and set the presentation tone so as to allow the reader to bypass after a quick interest scan.

All that, and I enjoy reading and sharing with my friends.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-06-20 12:52  

#5  Why all these Daily Fail posts?
Posted by: JHH   2020-06-20 11:58  

#4  What a hack job report.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-06-20 11:19  

#3  Welcome to Bleeding Kansas.

When you tear down history you get to repeat it. Once is a tragedy, twice is a farce.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-06-20 07:54  

#2  Another "peace of the grave" activist.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-20 04:38  

#1  Headline just screams "Daily Mail".
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-06-20 02:50  

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