GOP Candidate Hit With Backlash After Defending Buffalo Police Who Resigned From Unit In Solidarity With Suspended Colleagues

I stand strong behind these Buffalo Police officers. I refuse to let the shining city on a hill that brought my immigrant family here come under attack and destroyed from within. Cops are under attack from agitating, extremist radicals that crave chaos. Lawlessness must end pic.twitter.com/v2yGXrZ7M5
— Stefan Mychajliw (@StefanMychajliw) June 6, 2020

You are defending police brutality and police lawlessness. Stop it.
— Rebecca Tiffany (@rebeccajtiffany) June 6, 2020

Your statement today is amazingly tone deaf. It is sad to think that the city I grew up in is so far behind when it comes to compassion, empathy, and a moral compass. You do not speak for all and I hope that the city I love can become better.
— Jack S. (@CoachJSwartz) June 6, 2020

Translation, "I will say and do anything that gets me elected, I have no views of mine own"
— 𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗 𝙺𝚞𝚗𝚝𝚣 🏡 (@watcherofskies_) June 6, 2020

I know you're hoping that by doing this you'll convince the BPD to reopen the cold case to find your spine, but ask them to locate you a chin while they're at it
— Katie (@katiecommamaybe) June 6, 2020

Stefan - try again, the 75 year old man was peaceful. They left a fellow American bleeding on the sidewalk. Go study the RULE OF LAW - it applies to everyone. Be better.
— myglenbeigh (@myglenbeigh) June 6, 2020

I can't wait to vote for @Nate_McMurray!!!
— Victor Hugo Trash (@FreyaMermaid) June 6, 2020

Oh did the cops get pushed to the ground by a pack of unarmed 75-year-olds
— Jess Zimmerman (@j_zimms) June 6, 2020

Yeah, the lawless unarmed, frail old men
— Dave Wendel (@DaveEuph300) June 6, 2020

One thing I've learned from all of this is that change comes from voting at the smallest level — you're basically a nobody in Buffalo politics. But I'll vote against you next year and I can only hope other people remember you as the guy who backed cops who beat up an old man.
— Lauren Moore (@friendswaffles1) June 6, 2020

- doesn't understand the "rule of law"
- blindly defends all actions by humans with badge
- rouses up jingoism
- disgraces ancestors' pilgrimage for freedom
- can't find a cameraman willing to sustain verbal brain damage
— covid duchovny (@quality_pig) June 6, 2020

Did your immigrant family possibly come here to escape fascism?
— DKS (@dksintheflo) June 6, 2020

The entire world saw That horrific video of the Buffalo Police pushing an elderly man. People want justice, accountability, and systemic change for an equitable society. Disappointed, but not surprised to have such idiotic statements from WNY officials.
— Carrie🌻 (@carrielogo) June 6, 2020

Didn't thousands march peacefully last night?
— Tyler (@tymarciniak) June 6, 2020

This is super confusing. Because last night we saw substantially *less* of a police presence during the protests and everything ended peacefully. This narrative just doesn't match real life events.
— KEG (@alyak2792) June 6, 2020