Greta Thunberg has called on EU leaders to condemn 'police brutality and attacks on the free press' in the US during the Black Liv...
Greta Thunberg has called on EU leaders to condemn 'police brutality and attacks on the free press' in the US during the Black Lives Matter protests.
The 17-year-old climate change activist took to Twitter to respond to footage of two police officers shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground, causing him to crack his head on the sidewalk, in Buffalo, New York.
Miss Thunberg wrote: 'Still waiting for the EU and individual democratic nations to officially condemn the police brutality and attacks on the free press escalating the USA.
Greta Thunberg has called on EU leaders to condemn 'police brutality and attacks on the free press' in the US during the Black Lives Matter protests
The 17-year-old climate change activist took to Twitter to respond to footage of two police officers shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground, causing him to crack his head on the sidewalk
'For how long are we going to stand by, watch and say nothing?'
Her tweet comes in the second week of unrest in the US sparked by the death of unarmed black man George Floyd in Minneapolis last Monday.
White police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds despite Floyd's desperate repeated pleas for help. Floyd passed out and later died.
His death is seen as a symbol of systemic police brutality against African-Americans sparking outrage and protests country-wide.
Footage of the police shoving the protester in Buffalo was taken by a reporter from local radio station WBFO.
Governor Cuomo responded to the incident on Twitter calling it 'utterly disgraceful'
The white-haired man could be seen approaching a line of officers in riot gear outside of Buffalo City Hall after the city's 8pm curfew on Thursday.
As the man tries to speak to the officers, they immediately begin shouting at him to move along, before one of them pushes him with a baton and a second cop shoves him with his hand.
The elderly man is then seen staggering before falling back and hitting his head on the sidewalk. The sound of a crack is heard before blood trickles from his head.
The man, who was not identified, was taken to the hospital where he is now in serious condition, Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said.
Tonight the NYPD hit a protester walking his bike and journalist @macfathom (also with a bike) with batons, knocking him over twice, completely unprovoked. The hoarse voice screaming “he’s press” is me
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Police initially released a statement saying a person 'was injured when he tripped and fell.' The two cops are now under investigation.
Police forces across the country have been widely criticised for their use of heavy-handed tactics on largely-peaceful protesters.
In Brooklyn, hundreds of people were seen in a video marching down the street around 9pm before cops suddenly charged toward protesters without warning, prompting hundreds to take off running and disperse.
In a shocking video uploaded by journalist John Knefel, an NYPD officer wearing a white shirt is seen beating a male cyclist with his baton, before two more cops come along and knock him to the ground and restrain him.
The man, who had been walking along peacefully with his bike, is heard repeatedly shouting: 'What did I do?' as cops seize him.
Yesterday a protester who faced off with cops at a rally in California claimed one officer threatened to spray tear gas at his two-year-old son.
Dontae Parks, 29, was carrying his little boy on his shoulders at the demonstration in Long Beach on Sunday when the policeman allegedly made the threat.
Parks says he believes that the officer would not have threatened to spray tear gas at his son if they were white.
'It would have been a whole different scenario and that's one of the reasons I was there [at the protest]' he stated.
Parks was captured in a dramatic photo which showed a different officer pointing a rubber bullet gun at his face while his young son watched on.
Horrific footage released last week showed a little girl screaming for help after she was allegedly pepper-sprayed by cops in Seattle.
The youngster screams and yells 'I can't see' as frantic onlookers rush over to help her.
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