Judge Rules In Favor of Black Officer Who Fought for 15 Years to Receive Pension After Being Fired for Stopping White Colleague from Choking Black Man
An ex-Buffalo police officer who was terminated nearly 15 years ago after intervening while her colleague carried out a chokehold on a handcuffed Black man will receive a full pension, a New York judge ruled on Wednesday, April 14.
Cariol Horne was fired, faced departmental charges and was left without a pension after she forcibly removed her white colleague from a handcuffed Black man he’d placed in a chokehold in 2006.
“To her credit, Officer Horne did not merely stand by, but instead sought to intervene, despite the penalty she ultimately paid for doing so. … She saved a life that day, and history will now record her for the hero she is,” New York Supreme Court Judge Dennis Ward wrote in the ruling.
A judge in New York has overturned the firing of a long-serving Black former police officer who fought with a white colleague as he placed a suspect in a chokehold. State supreme court judge Dennis Ward praised Cariol Horne’s intervention during the 2006 incident, which led to her dismissal by the City of Buffalo two years later and a lengthy legal fight for compensation. In an 11-page ruling, Ward pointed to deaths of Black men during.
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A New York Judge ruled Cariol Horne, who was fired in 2008 for intervening when a fellow officer put a Black man in a chokehold, will be given back pay and her pension. Image: Twitter/@ClaudineWgrz
A New York judge ruled that a former Black female police officer in Buffalo who was fired in 2008 after intervening when a white officer placed a suspect in a chokehold, will receive back pay and her pension.
Cariol Horne was fired following a 2006 incident where she tried to stop a fellow officer from using a chokehold on a handcuffed suspect. When she was fired, Horne had served 19 of the 20 years needed to receive a full pension.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. 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.
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, Cariol Horne, championed following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Quoting the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the time is always right to do right, Judge Dennis Ward wrote in his decision.
Ex-Buffalo officer wins pension after being fired for trying to stop fellow cop s chokehold on suspect
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BUFFALO, N.Y. - 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.