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By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan
As dusk settled over the Minneapolis intersection of 38th and Chicago last Memorial Day, Police Officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee into George Floydâs neck. Handcuffed and gasping for air, Floyd addressed the officer as ââSir.â Floyd said âI canât breatheâ more than 20 times. âMama, I love you,â he cried. Minutes later, he died. Chauvin kept his knee in place for three more minutes, time during which George Floyd might have been resuscitated. Chauvinâs knee was on Floydâs neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds, all it took to snuff out George Floydâs life of 46 years.
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The Black Buffalopolice officer that was fired in 2008 for stopping a white officer from putting a suspect in a chokehold has won a ruling to receive her pension and back pay, CNN reports.
Officer Cariol Horne was fired after she stopped her colleague from using a chokehold on a handcuffed suspect. Horne was a 19-year veteran at the time of her departure, but for the Buffalo police force, a minimum of 20 years is required for an officer to receive their pension. To Horne, her firing was a clear message to any officer who attempted to hold their co-workers accountable.
Pension restored for former Buffalo cop who was fired for intervening in use-of-force situation
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and last updated 2021-04-16 12:41:22-04
BUFFALO, N.Y. â The New York State Supreme Court has reinstated the pension of a former Buffalo police officer who was fired after intervening when she says an officer put a man in a chokehold in 2006.
Cariol Horne will receive a full pension, backpay and benefits, following a decision by Justice Dennis E. Ward on Tuesday.
The ruling comes less than six months after Cariol s Law was signed by Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown. The law states that officers who reasonably believe a colleague is using excessive force have a duty to step in and stop it. Failure to intervene can lead to criminal charges.
By Victor Omondi
It’s all joy for Cariol Horne. The mother of 5 and a former police officer received news that she will finally get justice, 15 years in waiting.
Horne got fired in 2006 for stopping her White colleague from carrying out a chokehold on a handcuffed Black man. The ex-Buffalo police officer, however, paid dearly for efforts to do what was right.
On that fateful day, she responded to a call from a woman reporting that her ex-boyfriend, David Neal Mack, had stolen her security check worth $626. When she arrived at the scene, fellow police officer, Gregory Kwiatkowski, had already arrested and handcuffed Mack. Horne says that the incident took an ugly turn when Kwiatkowski started punching and choking the handcuffed man. She also recounts that at one instant, she heard Mack say he couldn’t breathe.