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By April Siese April 14, 2021 / 4:32 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 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. ....
You may remember the community outrage over the 2006 firing of Cariol Horne after she stopped another officer from choking a suspect during an arrest. Cariol s actions caused her to lose her job and her pension. According to WIVB, after the State Supreme Court vacated a previous ruling that upheld her firing, Coriol Horne will now receive her full pension. This case has received national attention, back in June, Cariol appeared on the CBS morning show and also CNN where she had a chance to talk about her decision to step in and protect the suspect that was being choked by the officer. ....
Chicago activists, lawyers, helped Cariol Horne reverse her firing from the Buffalo Police Department after she contended she stopped another officer from using a chokehold on a man who was handcuffed. ....
Print this article 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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