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Three Erie Co. Sheriff candidates face-off in forum, primary day less than a month away
Voters will elect a new sheriff for the first time in over a decade.
and last updated 2021-05-25 18:30:17-04
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â Later this year, voters will elect a new sheriff for the first time in over a decade. Three candidates up for the Democratic nomination made their pitches at a forum hosted by VOICE-Buffalo on Monday evening.
Candidates Kimberly Beaty, Myles Carter, and Brian Gould participated. VOICE-Buffalo said it invited and did not receive a response from Karen Healy-Case, Ted DiNoto, and Steve Felano. They said John Garcia declined. 7 Eyewitness News has also reached out to those candidates, but has not heard back.
Harassment allegation against Erie County Sheriff candidate cost taxpayers $10,000
Kimberly Beaty denied wrongdoing
and last updated 2021-04-19 08:37:51-04
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â For eight years starting in the early 2000s, Patrick Mann was Kimberly Beatyâs supervisor at the Buffalo Police training academy.
But Beaty was in the midst of a âmeteoric riseâ to the top of the police brass, becoming a lieutenant, then district chief and by 2014, deputy police commissioner.
By 2017, the promotions resulted in Beaty, who was one of the few women of color in leadership positions on the police force, supervising her old boss and Mann, a police captain, claimed Beaty âexerted her authority over meâ to the point of harassment.