video posted to Twitter on Tuesday, the son of Gatineau hockey great Daniel Briere was caught on a surveillance camera shoving an unoccupied wheelchair down a flight of stairs at a bar in Erie, Pa.The video was posted to Twitter by Julia Zukowski, who said she works at Sullivan’s Pub where the incident happened, and knows the person whose chair was damaged.
She wrote that she made the footage public because she “just can’t stomach the thought of this kid getting away with it.” Read more: ‘The Last of Us’: All the Alberta locations that got a dramatic makeover The video shows Carson Briere, 23, walking up to the entryway of a dance floor with three other people when he notices an unoccupied wheelchair in the stairwell.
He sits in the wheelchair and tries to manoeuvre around before getting up and pushing the chair down the stairs. The chair flips and the seat cushion comes off during the descent.
The extent of the damage to the wheelchair is unclear.Briere has since been temporarily suspended from his university’s NCAA hockey team after “considerable outcry” condemning his actions, according to a statement from Mercyhurst University.