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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. ....
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,. ....