By April Siese
April 14, 2021 / 4:32 AM / CBS News
A former Buffalo Police officer who said she was fired for intervening when a White officer attempted to choke a Black suspect will receive her pension after winning a lawsuit on Tuesday. The New York State Supreme Court vacated a previous ruling upholding the firing of Cariol Horne, CBS Buffalo affiliate WIVB reports.
In his ruling, Judge Dennis Ward wrote that the City of Buffalo has recognized the error and has acknowledged the need to undo an injustice from the past. The legal system can at the very least be the mechanism to help justice prevail, even if belatedly.
You may remember the community outrage over the 2006 firing of Cariol Horne after she stopped another officer from choking a suspect during an arrest. Cariol s actions caused her to lose her job and her pension. According to WIVB, after the State Supreme Court vacated a previous ruling that upheld her firing, Coriol Horne will now receive her full pension.
This case has received national attention, back in June, Cariol appeared on the CBS morning show and also CNN where she had a chance to talk about her decision to step in and protect the suspect that was being choked by the officer.
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As a conversation about excessive force by police sweeps the nation, one former police officer has been vindicated 15 years after she was terminated for forcibly removing a white officer who placed a handcuffed Black man in a chokehold.
Cariol Horne, a former Buffalo police officer, was fired, faced departmental charges and left without a pension after the 2006 incident, according to the New York Times.
On Tuesday, the New York Supreme Court vacated an earlier ruling from 2010 that affirmed her firing. Horne is now entitled to back wages, benefits and enough credit to receive her pension. To her credit, Officer Horne did not merely standby, but instead sought to intervene, despite the penalty she ultimately paid for doing so, Justice Dennis Ward wrote in the state court s decision. While the Eric Garners and George Floyds of the world never had a cha
Chicago activists, lawyers, helped Cariol Horne reverse her firing from the Buffalo Police Department after she contended she stopped another officer from using a chokehold on a man who was handcuffed.
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