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.