The city council in Buffalo, New York, voted this week to call on State Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the 2008 firing of Black officer Cariol Horne, who stopped a white colleague from choking a suspect while making an arrest.
The incident occurred in 2006, and Horne was fired two years later because the Buffalo Police Department claimed Horne had put her fellow officers at risk, including the white officer, Gregory Kwiatkowski, whom she stopped after he put the suspect in a chokehold.
Buffalo is now asking the state to look into the reasons why Horne was fired.
The Buffalo Police Department and Horne could not be immediately reached to address the case.
“I always say that if I had to do it again, I would,” Horne told The Washington Post on Friday.
Kwiatkowski, the officer that Horne stopped in 2006, was arrested and sentenced to four months in prison for use of excessive force against four Black teenagers 10 years after Horne was fired.
When one officer attempts to help him, another stops him and appears to tell him to keep moving. »
