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State Supreme Court Justice Grisanti pushed police officer, invoked mayor's name after fight with neighbors
By: Charlie Specht
Posted at 2:07 PM, Oct 13, 2020 and last updated 9:54 AM, Oct 14, 2020
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) In June, the 7 Eyewitness News I-Team reported that State Supreme Court Justice Mark J. Grisanti was under police investigation over a street brawl between the justice, his wife and their North Buffalo neighbors.
Grisanti and his wife were both handcuffed and placed in the back of police cars, but on July 8, Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn Jr. announced that he was not charging anyone with a crime.
But new body camera footage obtained by the I-Team through a Freedom of Information Law request shows that Justice Grisanti admitted to shoving a police officer, repeatedly stated that he has family ties to the Buffalo police force and even invoked a friendship with Mayor Byron W. Brown as he sought lenient treatment for himself and his wife.
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You better get off my f---ing wife, Mark Grisanti yells. My daughter and my son are both Buffalo police officers...Ill call them right now.
Buffalo Police spokesman Capt. Jeff Rinaldo said Grisanti was not charged because he "didnt tackle anyone. He didnt punch him. He gave him like a shoulder shove."
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State Supreme Court Justice Grisanti pushed police officer, invoked mayor's name after fight with .. (Original Post)
sl8
Oct 2020
OP
Good thing they are white. Black citizen would be shot dead the minute he laid hands on the cops.
Fla Dem
Oct 2020
#1
Cop to Black man... lay on the ground right this second so you can be handcuffed.
magicarpet
Oct 2020
#2
Fla Dem
(25,938 posts)1. Good thing they are white. Black citizen would be shot dead the minute he laid hands on the cops.
magicarpet
(17,175 posts)2. Cop to Black man... lay on the ground right this second so you can be handcuffed.
Blam.. blam.. blam,.. your nano second is up,.. blam,... blam,.. blam.
Give me a moment while I switch to a fresh new six bullet magazine,.. blam,.. blam,... some more.
In some circles Black Lives Don't Matter,.. white lives are worth so much more.