Trump’s evil tweet about Martin Gugino is being widely disputed.
#MartinGugino is a peace activist and volunteer with the Catholic Worker movement. Why spread rumors about someone who embodies the Beatitudes? In case you've forgotten what's in the Bible you were carrying, Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers," not the rumormongers. https://t.co/LMEAO16LvQ
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) June 9, 2020
Martin Gugino is a a longtime peace activist who has worked with the Plowshares and Catholic Workers, the movement started by Dorothy Day https://t.co/UJsmyBwGid
— Daniel Burke (@burkedaniel13) June 9, 2020
Mr. President @realDonaldTrump, the City of Buffalo is laser focused on healing, taking action against racial injustice and building a good future for our residents. We pray for a full recovery for Mr. Gugino and as I have repeatedly said, the two officers deserve due process. https://t.co/BNvp15eRWL
— Byron W. Brown (@MayorByronBrown) June 9, 2020
Byron Brown is the mayor of Buffalo.
President Trump is now accusing Martin Gugino, the 75 year old white man pushed to the ground by police in Buffalo, NY, of faking his fall and being a member of ANTIFA.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) June 9, 2020
Gugino is a member of two nonprofits and part of the Catholic Worker Movement.https://t.co/73pKnFcTBv https://t.co/CBpvAp1aP7
Martin Gugino, the 75-year-old Buffalo man shoved by two 30-something police officers, is a member of PUSH Buffalo, which focuses on affordable housing, and Western New York Peace Center, a human rights org. He is also part of the Catholic Worker Movement. https://t.co/XnOSkOpQyI pic.twitter.com/qYhvPRC51f
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) June 9, 2020
I wish Trump would just cease to exist. Right now. Just go out like a candle. At least that particular stream of venom would stop.
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10 responses to “Oh a longtime peace activist, how sinister”
I wish he would disappear retroactively, make all this go away like a bad dream…
He did fall really hard from a light push…but he’s 75. He lost his balance. Does Trump think the blood coming out of his ear was a prop? What an idiot.
If the cops didn’t look bad enough, when one of them tries to help the poor guy the other cops stop him.
The cop bending over him may have been considering helping him. That’s open to interpretation and I’ve certainly read other interpretations.
I have to say, when I’m running to give aid and bending down to help someone who has fallen and is bleeding from their ear, I don’t typically tightly grip a baton with both hands. Personally, I suspect the cop was still in threat assessment mode and was quite ready to land another blow.
(also – not a light push).
Also (Skeletor @ 2) – someone could fall really hard from a light push even if not 75. If you’re off-balance and not prepared you can go down smash, because of being off-balance and unprepared.
I run what-if scenarios a lot in my head, often ones of the type “if I see a kid dashing into the path of a car or a bike” or “if I see someone fall” and so on. I guess I’m trying to plan ahead just in case. A few years ago I rounded a corner on a quiet leafy block near here to find an elderly man sitting awkwardly on the grass and an elderly woman standing over him – she asked if I could help get him to his feet. Advance planning put to use at last! (I could. With two of us it wasn’t impossible to raise him until his feet and legs could take over.)
I guess the cops…don’t. At least not cops trained the way we seem to do it, and tasked with the kinds of things we task them with.
Yes, the cops aren’t trained in basic humanity, in fact I think most of it is trained out of them. Always suspicious, always defensive, never trusting, guilty until proven innocent type of training.
My husband is not yet 75; he is only 66. A light push would knock him over, and probably hard. He has balance problems that came with age. I could go over hard with a light push, even though I am not yet 60, because I am clumsy and it doesn’t take much to knock me off my feet.
Cops shouldn’t be pushing people. There may be times that’s needed, but I suspect in most cases there are things other than pushing that could get the job done.
twiliter:
There’s apparently some temporal correlation between a group’s being portrayed as bad actors and subsequent bad behavior. One explanatory hypothesis is that it leads to a sort of siege mentality. When two groups with that mindset converge, bad things happen, as the intensity of each group’s defensiveness increases every time the other lashes out.
It’s how societies slide into fascism. There’s a threat to the body politic, and a government response. The response exacerbates the problem or leads to new problems, so the situation gets worse. And that leads to a more extreme government response. And that makes the situation worse. And that leads to a more extreme government response. And that makes the situation worse. And that leads to a more extreme government response. And that makes the situation worse. …
And before you know it, we’re all wearing fashion accessories to demonstrate our political allegiance.
I don’t understand. If you’re pushed gently, gravity takes it easy on you, and allows you to float to the ground like a feather? What nonsense. Everyone knows gravity gets stronger from your late teens / early twenties onwards, and falling over gets more painful with ever decade that goes by.
‘Scanning?’ With what?
Magic.