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Commander of the Emergency Response Team (ERT)
Buffalo Police have a new, specialized team trained to keep the peace during civil disorder.
“There’s a very fine line between policing and honoring people’s civil rights,” said Lt. Thomas Whelan.
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Callan Gray of WIVB
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57 members of Buffalo police riot response team resign after shoving incident
Less than 24 hours after a 75-year-old man was pushed to the ground outside City Hall by members of the Buffalo Police Department's Emergency Response Team and a video of the incident during a protest drew widespread condemnation, all 57 members of the team resigned from the unit.
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Maki Becker of The Buffalo News
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Deposition of Officer Thomas Whelan - Day 1
A retired Buffalo police lieutenant testified in April he’d heard his colleagues use racist epithets when dealing with Black members of the public.
“Probably every officer” had used the “N word” at one point or another, according to retired Lt. Thomas Whelan, a former supervisor with the department’s controversial Strike Force unit.
He admitted he’d used it himself.
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United States District Court
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Deposition of Officer Thomas Whelan - Day 2
A retired Buffalo police lieutenant testified in April he’d heard his colleagues use racist epithets when dealing with Black members of the public. “Probably every officer” had used the “N word” at one point or another, according to retired Lt. Thomas Whelan, a former supervisor with the department’s controversial Strike Force unit. He admitted he’d used it himself.
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United States District Court
