CW // Police Violence

Around 12:30 AM on July 9th, Buffalo Police Officers Ronald Ammerman and Jonathan Crawford pulled over Dae'von Roberts, a 25 year old Black man, for speeding and having tinted windows on the East Side of Buffalo. Roberts was driving a family members vehicle and had a 6 year old in the front seat.

Individuals organized outside of Hochstetter Hall at UB's North Campus to call for a ceasefire to the genocide in Gaza and for the University at Buffalo and the UB Foundation to divest from Israel. Specifically, SUNY Boycott, Divest, Sanction (BDS) “wants financial divestment of all stocks, funds, partnerships, endowments and other monetary instruments from companies complicit in human rights abuse in Palestine, an academic boycott of Israeli institutions and universities, and they demand financial investments into education on Palestinian culture, literature, social movements, history and diaspora.”

CW: Quentin Suttles sustained serious personal injuries when Buffalo Police Officers used excessive force and brutally beat Mr. Suttles after pulling him over and arresting him.

Noah Giusiana attended a late-night film at a Regal Cinema in Buffalo, NY with his younger brother. While exiting the movie theater, Giusiana and his brother were “horsing around” and wrestling outside the theater. Giusiana was confronted by a Regal Cinema assistant manager and a brief altercation ensued.

Seconds later, Noah Giusiana was grabbed by off-duty Buffalo Police Officer Mark Andrzejak, who was working as a Regal Cinema security officer at the time. Officer Andrzejak then slammed Giusiana to the sidewalk. An eyewitness heard Giusiana’s head crack when it struck the sidewalk and said that he appeared unconscious as he was lying still, facedown on the ground.

Tremel Stone was shot while his back was facing Officer Ron Ammerman and he was running away. Stone stated that the only reason he ran was because the two officers are well known for planting evidence. Wendy Collier and Ron Ammerman did plant a gun on Stone that was used to charge him with possession of weapon

Outcome

With discovery that was provided during a civil suit, it became clear that the officers conspired to plant evidence on Stone. A civil suit against the City of Buffalo and officers involved for damages was settled for $150,000.