Carson Briere, the son of Flyers general manager Daniel Briere has received probation for shoving Sydney Benes’ wheelchair down the stairs at a bar in Pennsylvania earlier this year.
Carson S. Briere and Patrick Carrozzi were involved in the incident and they will receive 15 months of probation and their charges of second-degree misdemeanor criminal mischief will be dismissed and expunged upon completing the program.
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The incident occurred at Sullivan’s Irish Pub in March, and video of the two student-athletes shoving the wheelchair down the stairs went viral, spreading across social media and national news outlets.
The wheelchair belonged to Sydney Benes, who lost her legs in 2021 after she was in a car accident.
The wheelchair was at the top of the stairs because Benes had needed to be carried downstairs to use the restroom at the establishment.
“All that was going through my head was ‘man I hope this was an accident, I hope that this wasn’t on purpose,’” Benes said in an interview with YourErie.com in March.
In the photo attached is @_legless_wonder Sydney Benes.She is a good friend and a regular at the bar I work at Sullivans Pub in Erie PA.I’m sorry I couldn’t say that earlier with risk of outing Sydney until she was ready to come public.We have updated the gofundme with more info! pic.twitter.com/kiaLPMvf2G
— julia (@juliazukowski) March 16, 2023
“The head security guard had went and saw the one kid and the hockey player and made him come apologize to me, which wasn’t very sincere,” she said at the time.
Briere and Carrozzi both apologized to Benes in court before appearing before the judge.
“I am deeply sorry for my behavior on Saturday,” Briere said in a statement in March. “There is no excuse for my actions, and I will do whatever I can to make up for this serious lack of judgment.”
Carson Briere has learned his lessons the hard way and probably won’t attempt this kind of weird behavior ever in his life.
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