Kudos to this officer for doing the job the right way even at great expense to herself. Great to see her vindication!
The Guardian New York judge reverses firing of officer who fought colleague over chokehold Richard Luscombe
A judge in New York has overturned the firing of a long-serving Black former police officer who fought with a white colleague as he placed a suspect in a chokehold.
State supreme court judge Dennis Ward praised Cariol Horne’s intervention during the 2006 incident, which led to her dismissal by the City of Buffalo two years later and a lengthy legal fight for compensation.
In an 11-page ruling, Ward pointed to deaths of Black men during confrontations with law enforcement, including George Floyd and Eric Garner, and the role played by other officers in attendance.
“Recent events in the national news, including the death last year in the City of Minneapolis of George Floyd, who died from unreasonable physical force being applied for over nine minutes, have sparked national outrage over the use of this practice,” Ward wrote.
Cariol Horne said: ‘My vindication comes at a 15-year cost, but what has been gained could not be measured.’ “One of the issues in all of these cases is the role of other officers at the scene and particularly their complicity in failing to intervene to save the life of a person to whom such unreasonable physical force is being applied.”
The ruling to reinstate the former officer’s pension, back pay and other benefits, Ward said, was based partly on the City of Buffalo’s 2020 adoption of Cariol’s Law, which obliges law enforcement officers to intervene if a colleague uses excessive force.
“To her credit, Officer Horne did not merely stand by, but instead sought to intervene, despite the penalty she ultimately paid for doing so,” Ward wrote.
Horne said she tried to prevent fellow officer Greg Kwiatkowski from placing a suspect in a chokehold during a domestic violence arrest. Kwiatkowski was cleared during an internal investigation by Buffalo police but Horne was found to have breached policy and offered a four-day suspension, which she rejected.
In 2008, an arbitrator found her guilty of 11 charges and she was fired with 19 years’ service credit, one short of the 20 required for a full state pension.
Horne, who will not return to her old job, has been a vocal supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement and is campaigning for Cariol’s Law, which also provides protections for officers who report wrongdoing by colleagues, to be adopted nationally.
“My vindication comes at a 15-year cost, but what has been gained could not be measured,” she said in a statement issued by her attorney. “I never wanted another police officer to go through what I had gone through for doing the right thing.”
Horne’s lawyer, Ronald Sullivan, said in the statement: “She saved a life that day, and history will now record her for the hero she is.”
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The US should give da nigs a big chunk of land like they did the native Americans and leave them to their own devices...check back in 50yrs and see how their society has developed...I mean devolved.
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The US should give da nigs a big chunk of land like they did the native Americans and leave them to their own devices…check back in 50yrs and see how their society has developed…I mean devolved.
Obvious racism.
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Originally posted by Kal Joose
I wonder who is banging Chauvins Hot wife right now. She was a Beauty Pagent member. He ruined her credit score running up credit cards for his legal fees and for the lost of their house.
She´s probably hooking up with the Attorney right now
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I'm predicting not guilty on the murder charges and guilty on the manslaughter charge….that will send the apes apeshit.
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS CLOSING ARGUMENT FROM THE STATE
"George floyds last words were 'I can't breathe Mr. Officer' and mr. officer is supposed to protect and defend but the mr. officer he was referring to was the defendant, this Mr. Officer did not do his job.."
MISTER FUCKING OFFICER, REALLY?
he is calling police "mister officers" to like use floyds words to berate him but I dunno it just comes off as really weird to me like he is trying to make this as emotional as possible. HE LOVED HIS MAMA!!!!
he is 100% not getting charged for this no fucking way. I think the state fucked up
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WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS CLOSING ARGUMENT FROM THE STATE
"George floyds last words were 'I can't breathe Mr. Officer' and mr. officer is supposed to protect and defend but the mr. officer he was referring to was the defendant, this Mr. Officer did not do his job.."
MISTER FUCKING OFFICER, REALLY?
he is calling police "mister officers" to like use floyds words to berate him but I dunno it just comes off as really weird to me like he is trying to make this as emotional as possible. HE LOVED HIS MAMA!!!!
he is 100% not getting charged for this no fucking way. I think the state fucked up
The cop was kneeling on the dudes neck. that is a choke out strat. but it shouldnt have killed Floyd unless he had underlining conditions like a weak heart or drugs in his system. Most likely if the officer used a standard type of choke out (with his arm around the neck and holding the wrist which they do in self defense. everyone gets choked out at least once by their partner they team you up with. Its relatively a safe thing to do. unless the person is unhealthy. its not a typical type of choke out. and why he was doing it was probably so he could just handcuff floyd and throw him in the car and be on his way.
of course there is that conspiracy thing about He and Floyd worked at the same Nightclub and they were printing money and Floyd grabbed some bills and was trying to pass them off and got caught and Chauvin tried to silence his ass because he was in on it too. Drugs, Prostitution, Money laundering and printing counterfeit money was said to have been going on at this club. and Floyd and Chauvin were both security employees at the club. Chauvin for extra cash moonlighting but worked the door and never knew Floyd is the story. How in the fuck do you work at a nightclub and not get to know everyone? so Im curious why this was never brought up.
