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by: Kelly Khatib
Posted: Jul 7, 2020 / 08:16 AM EDT / Updated: Jul 7, 2020 / 08:16 AM EDT
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) Two Buffalo Police officers who were suspended without pay after a video showed them pushing 75-year-old protester Martin Gugino in June, are now back on the citys payroll.
Sources tell News 4 that Robert McCabe,32, and Aaron Torgalski,39, are being suspended with pay due to a collective bargaining agreement that has gone into effect after 30 days. This is normal protocol for this type of agreement.
Both officers are charged with assualt in the second degree for the incident involving Gugino and face a maximum sentance of seven years if convicted.
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ret5hd
(20,435 posts)FTP
ACAB
redstatebluegirl
(12,264 posts)the good ones.
Response to Dennis Donovan (Original post)
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Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)How could we, collectively, known about *this* a month ago?
And, enlighten me... CBA?
CBA is an acronym that means can't be arsed, meaning, essentially, that a person can't be bothered to find the energy or willingness to do something. It's used in England, Australia, and New Zealand more than it is in the US. Arse is a British slang version of ass.
How does that apply here?
dware
(12,094 posts)It's right there in your thread.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)dware
(12,094 posts)I had to look it up also because I too was a little perplexed on what CBA stood for.
Have a great Tuesday.
WestCoastYellowDog
(55 posts)If you go after police unions, teacher unions are next. Find one racist or malicious/incompetent teacher and then take away all teachers due process or pensions.
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)And break the police unions.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)The police pout and vow not to do their jobs if the contracts aren't exactly as they demand.
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)The contracts also protect police who engage in abusive behavior towards the public. They do this by mandating procedures that hamper investigation, and ensuring police themselves decide what is a well-founded complaint and what is not.
Police who strike can be fired in most states. Someone is going to have to face up to it, see to a strike occurring, and when it does fire the lot of them.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)WestCoastYellowDog
(55 posts)The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)No one said a thing about public school teachers or bus drivers or municipal clerks or any of the rest of it.
Police unions need breaking badly. They make a mighty contribution to the toxic culture of police work in this country, they serve as shields for corrupt and brutal officers, and in fact seem to take doing so as their chief reason for existence.
dware
(12,094 posts)Wish I could rec. this post a thousand times.
Response to The Magistrate (Reply #18)
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The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)Incorrigibles have to be treated as incorrigibles.
Police unions devote far too much of their efforts to protecting brutal and corrupt members. Their idea of the 'best package' for police includes a license to maim and murder and steal without let or hindrance. So long as police will act against strikers and peaceable protestors, the idea police unions are part of any labor movement is a joke in poor taste.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Suspended with Pay.
oasis
(49,152 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)oasis
(49,152 posts)uponit7771
(90,225 posts)malaise
(267,846 posts)Lock them up!