Carson Briere Eliminated From Mercyhurst Hockey Group After Pushing Wheelchair Down Steps

Mercyhurst College introduced Monday that Carson Briere was faraway from the boys’s ice hockey group after video confirmed him pushing a wheelchair down the steps at a bar in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Briere is the son of former NHL participant and present Philadelphia Flyers interim normal supervisor Daniel Briere.

Briere and males’s lacrosse participant Patrick Carrozzi have been charged with felony mischief, conspiracy to commit felony mischief and disorderly conduct, per The Athletic. Briere was suspended from the hockey group.

In a video that was posted on social media, Briere and two different males are seen on the prime of the steps at Sullivan’s Pub and Eatery on March 11. Briere sat within the wheelchair earlier than pushing it down the steps.

The proprietor of the wheelchair had been helped down the stairs by bar safety to make use of the lavatory, and whereas she was doing so, Briere pushed her wheelchair down the steps. Briere and a buddy have been faraway from the bar.

“There is no such thing as a excuse for my actions, and I’ll do no matter I can to make up for this critical lack of judgment,” Briere said in a statement in March.

The Athletic reported {that a} felony criticism famous pushing the wheelchair down the steps “brought about the left brake deal with to not operate correctly, the plastic molding on the precise arm relaxation to interrupt, the rear deal with is barely bent and the wheels are experiencing drag shifting ahead.”

The lady stated the wheelchair price about $2,000.

Briere and Carrozzi are scheduled to be in courtroom Could 22.

“I used to be shocked to see Carson’s actions within the video that was shared on social media yesterday,” Daniel Briere stated in a press release. “They’re inexcusable and run fully counter to our household’s values of treating individuals with respect. Carson may be very sorry and accepts full accountability for his conduct.”