US police officer Cariol Horne intervened when a colleague started choking a Black suspect during an arrest in 2006. "Fifteen years of hell" ensued for Horne, also African-American, as she was punish…
Washington (AFP) - US police officer Cariol Horne intervened when a colleague started choking a Black suspect during an arrest in 2006. "Fifteen years of
Posted on April 21, 2021.
A code exists amongst police officers in the United States, which defines the relationship between the officers, but also their relationship with citizens.
It is the so-called “blue wall of silence,” the “verbal and implicit understanding that nobody should betray a colleague, no matter what the cost,” explains DeLacy Davis, ex-sergeant of the East Orange police department in New Jersey, in an interview with BBC Mundo.
For Davis, who worked in the force for 20 years and is now an activist and the founder of Black Cops Against Police Brutality, it is clear: the blue wall is a symptom of a greater problem in the country, which is revealing itself this month during the trial over the death of the African American George Floyd.