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Buffalo..."The union made me do it"

“The police union is on the wrong side of history,” Mayor Brown told Maddow, echoing what he’d said to CNN’s Chris Cuomo earlier in the evening. “This union has been on the wrong side of history for a very long period of time. And they have been a real barrier to the reform of policing in the City of Buffalo.”

Brown also blamed the union for the resignation of 57 members of the department’s ERT. Brown said the PBA threatened to withhold support for ERT members who continued to work the protests.

In fact, PBA president John Evans sent an email Friday morning saying the PBA would be hard-pressed to pay legal fees for members who were sued as a result of actions such as had occurred the night before.

In the past, the City of Buffalo has assumed legal costs for officers facing civil suits. Last November, however, the state’s Court of Appeals ruled the city was not obligated to pay for the civil defense of Buffalo Police Officer Cory Krug, who was caught on video in 2014 striking a Lackawanna man repeatedly with a baton on Chippewa Street.

Because Krug had violated the department’s use of force policies, the court ruled, he was not working within the scope of his duty. Therefore, the city could opt out of paying his legal fees — though the city remained on the hook if the plaintiff won a judgment against Krug.

That judgment could put the onus on the PBA and individual officers to pay for their legal defense, PBA attorney Thomas Burton told Investigative Post in March.

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