A police officer in Buffalo, New York, who was fired in 2008 for intervening when a colleague employed a chokehold will be given back pay and a pension, a New York judge ruled. Cariol Horne was fired following a 2006 incident in which she tried to stop an officer from using a chokehold on a handcuffed suspect. Horne served on the Buffalo police force for 19 of the 20 years required to receive a pension. Tuesday's ruling restored Horne's pension and vacated an earlier court ruling upholding her dismissal.
"I had five children and I lost everything but [the suspect] did not lose his life, so, if I have nothing else to live for in life, at least I can know that I did the right thing and that [he] still breathes."
-Cariol Horne
2020 interview
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