Woman whose wheelchair was pushed down stairs by Carson Briere blasts his ‘insincere’ apology

A disabled girl whose wheelchair was pushed down a flight of stairs by Mercyhurst University males’s hockey coronary heart Carson Briere blasted his “insincere” apology after the incident.

Briere, the son of former NHL participant and interim Flyers GM Daniel Briere, was caught on digital digital camera pushing an unoccupied wheelchair down the steps at Sullivan’s Pub in Erie, Pennsylvania on Saturday night with two totally different scholar athletes from the school.

Footage of the incident shared by Julia Zukowski displays Briere, carrying a white hat, sit down throughout the chair in a hallway on the excessive of a stairwell sooner than cruelly shoving it down the steps sooner than strolling once more into the crowded bar.

Zukowski claimed that the occupant of the wheelchair wanted to be “physically carried” downstairs to utilize the bathroom later that night.

The proprietor of the chair, who identified herself on social media as “Sydney,” bashed Briere in a set of tweets Wednesday and acknowledged she goes to donate most of the $8,000 raised on GoFundMe for a model new wheelchair after hers was damaged.

“Hi im Sydney and it was my chair that was pushed down the steps. I’m so grateful for all of Sullivan’s help on this state of affairs and the kind suggestions I see on Julia’s submit,’ she wrote on her Twitter account, @_legless_wonder, posing beside an employee of the bar.

“I swear I really don’t wanna keep a cent of the donated money, I’d much rather give it to those who need it,” she acknowledged, sooner than later together with she’ll keep adequate to revive her wheelchair.

Sydney acknowledged in a separate tweet that she doesn’t blame the bar, and acknowledged security made Briere apologize sooner than they kicked him out. But she claimed the school hockey participant was “insincere” and he even requested the bouncer “Do I still have to go?” after apologizing. 

She acknowledged in fairly a number of tweets that he appeared coherent.

“They’ve shown their true colors,” she wrote in a post. “Those being that they’re entitled, spoiled, ignorant, douchecanoes. I don’t wanna ruin their lives but they’ve clearly only gotten a slap on the wrist their whole lives. They need to learn their behavior is completely unacceptable.”

On Wednesday, the faculty’s athletic division acknowledged Briere, along with two totally different student-athletes throughout the video, had been placed on interim suspension from their respective teams.

“I am deeply sorry for my behavior on Saturday,” Briere, a junior at Mercyhurst, acknowledged in a press launch. “There is no excuse for my actions, and I will do whatever I can to make up for this serious lack of judgment.”

Mercyhurst University, which is located in Erie, acknowledged they’ve been made acutely aware of the video.

The school instructed The Daily Mail that the Erie Police Department was taking over the investigation.

Sydney acknowledged she goes to make use of among the many GoFundMe money to revive the damaged chair, nonetheless the remaining is likely to be donated.

“I would like to clarify that I’m using the GoFundMe donations to help fix my chair but all the rest is going to the disabled community and to people who really need the help,” she tweeted Thursday night.

Briere, a Philadelphia native, carried out 30 video video games for the Lakers throughout the 2022-23 season — totaling 5 targets and eight assists. He was dismissed from the boys’s hockey workers at Arizona State as a freshman in 2019 for what this technique acknowledged was a violation of workers pointers.

His father Daniel Briere carried out 17 seasons throughout the NHL along with six with the Flyers and a Stanley Cup look with Philadelphia in 2010. 

He was merely named interim fundamental supervisor of the workers on Friday.