Sergio Rodriguez

Buffalo police fighting riots

Police in riot gear and protesters clashing at Niagara Square in Buffalo. I pray for the safety of everyone who is involved. 

COVID-19 Didn’t do this to Buffalo

Can’t blame the Coronavirus for this. Video by First+Main Films

Beautiful drone clip of downtown Buffalo! 🎥 @TheOriginalRK

Top of of Buffalo City Hall on a foggy day. Video by Adam @swiftyny

LISTEN CAREFULLY! Can you believe something like this would happen right in our own backyard? Players from a hockey team in Cheektowaga were making monkey noises at the ONLY African American hockey player playing for an Amherst team.

Rush hour in Buffalo. 🎥: Paget Films

Have you ever seen anything like this? No, it’s not a scene from Game of Thrones. This is ice rolling onto the shore in Hamburg caused by today’s wind storm. 📹: Ivy / Autumn Lewandowski

The Buffalo News: “In the video that Buffalo officials didn't want the public to see, one of their cellblock attendants grabs a handcuffed defendant from behind and throws him to the floor. His head hits a shelf, opening a gash on his face. He's then dragged to an empty cell and dropped into a chair as blood pools beneath him. Nearby, two Buffalo police officers who could have intervened — Joshua T. Craig and Anthony J. D'Agostino — do nothing but watch. One smiles. For more than two years, lawyers for Mayor Byron W. Brown and the police department fought The Buffalo News' attempts to obtain the video through New York's Freedom of Information Law. The News then went to court in an effort to show readers the crime that a government employee committed inside a government facility. But the newspaper came away empty-handed as State Supreme Court Justice Tracey A. Bannister said the video could be withheld because potential jurors could be swayed if the video entered the public realm. Since then, cellblock attendant Matthew Jaskula has served his prison time, and a lawsuit against the city was settled Wednesday for $300,000. With The News appealing Bannister's decision, the city's lawyers handed over the video Thursday afternoon. The video — which a federal judge called "horrible to watch" — shows defendant Shaun P. Porter appearing compliant as the cellblock attendant books him into the city's holding facility May 19, 2016. When Porter says something Jaskula doesn't like, the attendant grabs the handcuffed defendant and throws him to the floor. His head hits a shelf. Porter, 37 at the time, goes limp. Jaskula drags him by the arms to a cell, where Porter's head slams into the door frame. Shaun Porter suffered a broken nose and deep facial cuts when he was beaten by guard Matthew Jaskula while handcuffed in the City of Buffalo holding cells. All the while, Porter does not resist. Officers Craig and D'Agostino, who have just arrested Porter after a domestic inciden

Grand Island Bridge Video by Adam @swiftyny

There are some really good police officers making a difference in our city! Thank you to officer Norwood and officer Badger for setting a great example for residents in our community!

Was this community activist WRONG for confronting an elected official this way? Community activists and BMHA residents are heated and expressing their displeasure to a Buffalo Councilmember.

The Deep Freeze 🥶 by Michae Sidofsky

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LaSalle Park will transform the West Side of Buffalo

Thank you, Ralph Wilson. A million times: Thank You. The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation is donating $100 million to turn LaSalle Park on Buffalo's Lower West Side into a signature park and to develop a completed regional trail system. It's the largest philanthropic gift that has ever been given in WNY. Giving both the Buffalo and Detroit regions $100 million was proposed by Mary Wilson, Ralph's widow and one of four life trustees he hand-picked to oversee the foundation. "Mary Wilson said it needs to be $100 million in both regions," Egner said. "She thought both were important to Mr. Wilson, and on his birthday we should make a statement of this size and caliber." As part of the agreement, both parks – with the expectation of city government approval – are expected to be renamed Ralph C. Wilson Centennial Park. The Wilson Foundation grants are not intended to pay for everything. Seventy percent of the remaining costs for the trails initiatives in Buffalo and Detroit are expected to come from states, municipalities, organizations, businesses and other philanthropies. The decision to turn LaSalle Park, the city's largest waterfront park, into a signature park came during a community-involved process called "Imagine LaSalle." Over the summer, a focus group of 22 people from surrounding neighborhoods visited several parks, including Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City, Maggie Daley Park in Chicago and Washington Park in Cincinnati to draw inspiration. Nearly 1,200 people filled out surveys offered in seven languages, and youth from the Belle Center were enlisted to take pictures and write about their thoughts on the park. The University at Buffalo's Regional Institute and local organizations and agencies also were involved. "The overall goal is to move forward with a broad conceptual design for the park and work collaboratively with public and private partners to realize that design" The park is near five distinct West Side neighborhoods: Front Park, Fargo

Undocumented immigrants coming to America for “handouts”

A view from Buffalo City Hall

A Brighter Buffalo

Beautiful Buffalo! In under 5 minutes, this incredible time lapse video shows Buffalo from sunrise to sunset and all of our four seasons. This is why I call Buffalo home! Video by Paget Films and Visit Buffalo Niagara.

Freedom Wall morph! Every beautiful panel on that beautiful wall morphed as one. The corner of Michigan Avenue and East Ferry Street in Buffalo is the northern entrance into the Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor: a nexus of the city’s deeply rooted African American history. It marks the intersection of the honorary Richard Allen and Harriet Tubman Ways, and it is home to Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Bethel AME). Organized in 1831, Bethel AME is Buffalo’s oldest black religious institution and served as a critical station on the Underground Railroad. Vital contributions from community meetings also helped determine the team of artists that painted these portraits over the summer of 2017: John Baker (born 1964), Julia Bottoms (born 1988), Chuck Tingley (born 1983), and Edreys Wajed (born 1974). Each artist is a native of Buffalo, currently lives and works in the region, and holds a degree from SUNY Buffalo State. The list of subjects depicted is as follows, with each artist alternating panels for a total of seven works each. Rosa Parks Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure) Mama Charlene Caver Miller William Wells Brown King Peterson Angela Davis Bill Gaiter Malcolm X Alicia Garza George K. Arthur Al-Nisa Banks W. E. B. Du Bois Eva Doyle Huey P. Newton Shirley Chisholm Frank Merriweather Martin Luther King, Jr. Mary B. Talbert Reverend J. Edward Nash, Sr. Dr. Lydia T. Wright Frederick Douglass Dr. Monroe Fordham Thurgood Marshall Fannie Lou Hamer Arthur O. Eve Minnie Gillette Marcus Garvey Harriet Tubman

Are you kidding me? Look at this! Buffalo, this is what the city is allowing CERTAIN PEOPLE to get away with! Nate Boyd Facebook Live Reports: “Filmore District What is going on here councilman ? What is going on here Mr. Mayor? Come and clean this Rat Trap up Now! We The People Want Answers, NOW? You see Buffalo. This is Unacceptable ! If you agree say it, make a statement, This is Unacceptable ! Mr mayor, this is unacceptable and very dangerous”

Buffalo: The City of Good Neighbors Who wouldn’t want neighbors that shovel your sidewalk during an April snowstorm in a T-Rex costume? Pretty sure that’s worth at least an extra $10k in home value.

A windy day in the Queen City 🌊 View of the City of Buffalo from Hamburg Beach. Video by @grey_areas / Nathan Johnson

I'm not sure if there are enough plants in Buffalo to cover up all the potholes we have.

How would you deal with this if this was taking place in YOUR neighborhood? Should the University at Buffalo bear some responsibility for the actions of its students? Hundreds of UB students are seen here celebrating Greek Life on Winspear Ave after police were called to break up a large party. One of the neighbors had this to say about the incident: “I live the next block over. I was trying to get home when this was going on. One of the students wouldn’t move out of the way of my car and decided he needed to hit it because he was angry at me for beeping my horn. Cops were there and arrested him”. Another neighbor said: “At same time we had a clean up going on in the South Campus neighborhood — picked 7 bags of trash on Sutton Lane alone. Almost all of it red cups and lots of broken glass . Have a party why, trash the neighborhood.” Video by Michael “Mickey” Vertino

Dyngus Day Traditions

A blast from the past! It's old but it's funny and there's a good explination of what Dyngus Day is. Eyewitness news with "Scurvy" Irv Weinstein. The guy playing the accordion is Joe Koscielniak, he was an accordion teacher and an outstanding musician. Circa 1985.

When you can’t find a shovel ❄️