Three years ago, the authors of a study alleging discriminatory policing in Buffalo quoted a man named H. McCarthy Gipson as saying he, too, has been stopped in the city for driving while black.
Gipson served as Buffalo’s police commissioner from 2006 to almost 2010.
The protestors who set fires and vandalized storefronts around Niagara Square and elsewhere late Saturday were reacting to a fatal example of police brutality from more than 700 miles away, with no connection to Buffalo….
