Was A Buffalo Cop Right To Slam Into A Suspect With His SUV?

By Bob Owens

An unnamed Buffalo (NY) police officer’s actions are now going viral after he used his department vehicle to hit and disable a combative man armed with a butcher knife.

A Facebook Live video published online Saturday afternoon shows a Buffalo Police SUV striking a man with a knife during a SWAT call, prompting the department’s Internal Affairs Division to launch an immediate investigation into the officer’s use of physical force.

The video, which was posted by a Facebook user named Sheila Woodard just after 12:30 p.m. Saturday, began with police officers surrounding a man in a red jacket near the intersection of Chicago and Fulton streets, just east of the Seneca Buffalo Creek Casino.

After about two minutes, the video then shows a police SUV ramming into the man as he attempted to jump out of the way of the vehicle. Several officers then rushed to the scene, and about ten minutes later, they loaded the man into an ambulance to transport him to Erie County Medical Center. Police said he had non-life threatening injuries but was placed into police custody.

The video was removed from Facebook just after 8 p.m. Sunday, about 24 hours after the department had publicly acknowledged the internal …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms