{"id":43137,"date":"2020-06-13T16:38:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T16:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43137"},"modified":"2020-06-13T16:38:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T16:38:46","slug":"protester-suffers-brain-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43137","title":{"rendered":"Protester suffers brain injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Gugino%20%23Buffalocops%20%23Antifa%20%23POTUS%20%23GeorgeFloyd&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gugino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43138\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gugino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You no doubt have seen the video.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester, approached a phalanx of Buffalo, N.Y., police officers armed with shields and assorted riot gear. The cops pushed him to the ground. Gugino hit his head <em>hard<\/em> on the pavement and blood began pouring out of his ear.<\/p>\n<p>The police walked on by. Someone finally summoned medical help. Gugino was taken to the hospital, where he was listed in serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out Gugino suffered a brain injury. He needs physical therapy.<\/p>\n<p>What, though, did the president say about this fellow? The <em>Conspiracy Theorist in Chief<\/em> suggested that Gugino <em>faked<\/em> his fall, that his tumble onto the pavement was exaggerated. Donald Trump called him an Antifa &#8220;provocateur.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say that the only <em>provocateur<\/em> in this instance is Donald Trump, who is provoking more anger, more distrust of those who are protesting police brutality &#8230; which was the cause of the Buffalo march in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Get well, Mr. Gugino. As for Donald John Trump, well &#8230; I am just hoping he is in the final throes of his disgraceful tenure in the nation&#8217;s highest office.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Gugino%20%23Buffalocops%20%23Antifa%20%23POTUS%20%23GeorgeFloyd&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You no doubt have seen the video. Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester, approached a phalanx of Buffalo, N.Y., police officers armed with shields and assorted riot gear. The cops pushed him to the ground. Gugino hit his head hard on the pavement and blood began pouring out of his ear. The police walked on by. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Protester suffers brain injury<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9406,9405,7335,7947],"class_list":["post-43137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-antifa","tag-martin-gugino","tag-police-brutality","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43139,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43137\/revisions\/43139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}