NEW YORK — Two Buffalo cops have been cleared of wrongdoing for shoving a 75-year-old demonstrator to the ground during a George Floyd protest, leaving the activist hospitalized for weeks afterward with a fractured skull and a brain injury.
The incident, captured on a viral video during a June 2020 demonstration over Floyd’s death beneath a Minneapolis police officer’s knee, sent Martin Gugino tumbling to the pavement as police enforced a local curfew.
But arbitrator Jeffrey Selchick concluded Friday that Officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski were justified in their actions.
