Black Buffalo cop who stopped white officer from choking handcuffed Black suspect gets pension back 13 years after being fired Joseph Wilkinson
A former Buffalo police officer who fought a fellow cop who put a handcuffed suspect in a chokehold will receive more than a decade’s worth of back pay and a full pension.
Cariol Horne, a 53-year-old Black woman, intervened in 2006 to stop a white colleague, Greg Kwiatkowski, who was violently arresting a Black suspect, Neal Mack.
The Buffalo Police Department ruled in Kwiatkowski’s favor in a 2007 internal investigation, and Horne was fired in 2008. She was terminated one year shy of the 20 years of service needed to retire with a full pension.
Black Buffalo police officer fired for trying to stop chokehold wins ruling, to get pension
A Black police officer in Buffalo, New York, who was fired in 2008 for intervening when a White colleague employed a chokehold will be given back pay and a pension, a New York judge ruled.
The officer, Cariol Horne, was fired following a 2006 incident in which she
tried to stop an officer from using a chokehold on a handcuffed suspect. Horne served on the Buffalo police force for 19 of the 20 years required to receive a pension.
“The message was sent that you don’t cross that blue line and so some officers many officers don’t,” Horne said in a 2020 interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar.
A state Supreme Court judge cited the changing landscape around the use of force by police and a new “duty to intervene” statute that the fired officer,.
Fired Buffalo police officer who tried to stop chokehold wins legal battle
By Carolyn Thompson article
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NEW YORK - A Buffalo, New York, police officer who was fired for trying to stop another officer from using a chokehold on a handcuffed suspect has won a yearslong legal fight to overturn her dismissal and collect her pension.