Pension restored for former Buffalo cop who was fired for intervening in use-of-force situation
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and last updated 2021-04-16 12:41:22-04
BUFFALO, N.Y. â The New York State Supreme Court has reinstated the pension of a former Buffalo police officer who was fired after intervening when she says an officer put a man in a chokehold in 2006.
Cariol Horne will receive a full pension, backpay and benefits, following a decision by Justice Dennis E. Ward on Tuesday.
The ruling comes less than six months after Cariol s Law was signed by Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown. The law states that officers who reasonably believe a colleague is using excessive force have a duty to step in and stop it. Failure to intervene can lead to criminal charges.
By April Siese
April 15, 2021 / 7:06 AM / CBS News
A former Buffalo Police officer who said she was fired for intervening when a White officer attempted to choke a Black suspect will receive her pension after winning a lawsuit on Tuesday. The New York State Supreme Court vacated a previous ruling upholding the firing of Cariol Horne, CBS Buffalo affiliate WIVB-TV reports.
In his ruling, Judge Dennis Ward wrote that the City of Buffalo has recognized the error and has acknowledged the need to undo an injustice from the past. The legal system can at the very least be the mechanism to help justice prevail, even if belatedly.
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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.