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Ex-Buffalo officer wins pension after being fired for trying to stop fellow cop s chokehold on suspect
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New York judge reverses firing of officer who fought colleague over chokehold
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Court Rules In Favor Of Officer Fired For Stopping Colleague s Chokehold On Black Suspect
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The judge said those police officers who intervene are now considered heroes
Horne was a steady presence in BLM protests after George Floyd died in Buffalo.
Fourteen years after Buffalo police officer Cariol Horne stood up to a colleague who held a Black suspect in a deadly chokehold and subsequently getting herself fired, a court annulled the firing and ruled that she is entitled to her pension, benefits and back pay.
Horne, who was fired for intervening when a white colleague had a suspect in a chokehold during a 2006 arrest, was a steady presence in the Black Lives Matter protests triggered by the death of George Floyd under the knee of a white officer in Minneapolis in May 2020.
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Apr 14, 2021 2:40 PM ET
It was a cold November day in Buffalo when Officer Cariol Horne responded to a call for a colleague in need of help. What she encountered was a white officer who appeared to be “in a rage” punching a handcuffed Black man in the face repeatedly as other officers stood by.
Officer Horne, who is Black, heard the handcuffed man say he could not breathe and saw the white officer put him in a chokehold. At that point, court documents show, she forcibly removed the white officer and began to trade blows with him.
In the altercation’s aftermath, Officer Horne was reassigned, hit with departmental charges and, eventually, fired just one year short of the 20 on the force she needed to collect her full pension. She tried, and failed, more than once to have the decision reversed as unfair.
Fired officer who halted excessive force arrest wins pension
CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press
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1of3Cariol Horne marches during a protest organized by We Pump 716 and the Liberation Collective, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, in Buffalo. Horne, a Buffalo police officer who was fired for trying to stop another officer from using a chokehold on a handcuffed suspect, has won a years-long legal fight to collect her pension on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. A state Supreme Court judge cited the changing landscape around the use of force by police and a recently passed duty to intervene statute adopted by the city. (Sharon Cantillon/The Buffalo News via AP)Sharon Cantillon/APShow MoreShow Less
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