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As a conversation about excessive force by police sweeps the nation, one former police officer has been vindicated 15 years after she was terminated for forcibly removing a white officer who placed a handcuffed Black man in a chokehold.
Cariol Horne, a former Buffalo police officer, was fired, faced departmental charges and left without a pension after the 2006 incident, according to the New York Times.
On Tuesday, the New York Supreme Court vacated an earlier ruling from 2010 that affirmed her firing. Horne is now entitled to back wages, benefits and enough credit to receive her pension. To her credit, Officer Horne did not merely standby, but instead sought to intervene, despite the penalty she ultimately paid for doing so, Justice Dennis Ward wrote in the state court s decision. While the Eric Garners and George Floyds of the world never had a cha
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A Buffalo, New York, officer who was terminated in 2008 after trying to stop a fellow policeman from putting a black man in a chokehold won access to her pension Tuesday after a yearslong fight.
The New York Supreme Court decided that former officer Cariol Horne will receive a pension equivalent to 20 years of work in law enforcement following the city s passage of Cariol s Law.
The law includes a provision that allows an officer who was retroactively terminated for reporting the objectively unreasonable use of force against a civilian or intervening to stop the use of objectively unreasonable force by a fellow officer to be allowed to contest the situation in court.
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