Witness: Video Will Show Grisanti “Smacking” Couple
Coreen Thompson, who shot a five-minute cell phone video of a wild bar brawl involving State Sen. Mark Grisanti on Friday night, said in an interview that when the video is released, it will show Grisanti swinging wildly at a man named Eric White — and hitting both White and his wife, Kristina.
“It shows him taking a 15-foot running start at Eric and just smacking him in the face,” Thompson said. “He killed two birds with one stone, because he hit [Kristina] on the follow through.”
The cell phone video has not been made public — and the casino’s surveillance footage is also not yet publicly available. Thompson said she and Eric White were still working on properly formatting the cell phone footage.
The Buffalo News reported this morning that, according to a police report filed by the couple, Grisanti punched Eric White in the temple and Kristina White in the cheek with the same blow.
Thompson says that near the conclusion of the video, Kristina White says something to the effect of: “The New York state senator just punched me in the face.”
Today in Albany, Grisanti denied the charges leveled by Eric and Kristina White.
“I didn’t hit anybody after the incident,” he told the Buffalo News.
Eric White was one of the two men in the Seneca Niagara Casino bar that initially were arguing heatedly, with Grisanti stepping in to break up the argument — and the bar brawl ensuing.
The incident came at the end of a brawl that had already led to the beating of Grisanti’s wife, Maria, by two women, which resulted in her hospitalization.
The video starts up when security had Grisanti pinned up against a wall, Thompson said, only for Grisanti to run at Eric White and his wife. Thompson said that Eric White was nursing a knee injury from the brawl when Grisanti ran at him.
Three witnesses, including Thompson, appeared on a Buffalo AM radio program last night to dispute Grisanti’s story that he and his wife were innocent bystanders.
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Gerard Gershonowitz
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If the senator did take a swing, it had to be in self defense. This goes to show how many people out there enjoy bringing good people down so the scrounge of society can attempt to be the majority, it’s disgraceful.
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NotSeneca Either
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Tick, tick, tick.
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Harry Gunnat
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How do you consider a 15 ft lunge at a hobbled man leaving self defense? Let’s review the video, then wait for the spin speech to begin. To hear the eyewitness accounts check out the audio replay of the radio show. WWKB1520.com under the personality profile of John Kane.
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NotSeneca
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Eyewitness accounts from friends of the cigarette “businessmen” who attacked the Grisantis. Sorry, I don’t listen to propaganda. Thugs are thugs, whether they are men in suits or tatooed fat women in purple dresses. Your video shows nothing. It is time for you to lose your casino monopoly and start paying your taxes on cigarettes you smuggle to New York City. Your honeymoon ended when you attacked a New York State Senator because you don’t like his politics.
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seneca
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The video starts after the brawl, after Grisantis wife’s head had been repeatedly slammed into the floor. After Grisanti had been pummeled by White. I suppose Grisanti may have lost his cool by that point.
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Not Seneca
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Well it’s been a week now and this City and State “blockbuster” about the Grisanti’s has been proven completely and totally false. A canard. Complete and total bullchips. I’m guessing your editor will have you adjust your diet away from being fed all that crap by the Democrat spin machine, Chris.
Grisantis were attacked by a group of thug felons with a long record of badly beating innocent people. Try that one on for size – or doesn’t that fit your talking points as an unregistered press secretary for Gianaris?
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