Buffalo police officer fired for intervening pushes reform
Associated PressBUFFALO, N.Y. — A Buffalo police officer fired 12 years ago for interfering with another officer who she said was choking a suspect is stepping up calls for reforms around how officers should respond to police brutality following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, where an officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck even after he stopped pleading for air. Cariol Horne said there was nothing to protect her when she pulled fellow Officer Gregory Kwiatkowski’s arm from around the neck of a handcuffed domestic violence suspect. The resolution also requests that the office review attendance records at the heart of Horne’s long running fight to collect the police pension the mother of five said she has earned. Mayor Byron Brown, when asked about Horne’s case during a news conference last week, said “a different telling of history is happening from what happened at that time.” “Officer Horne did not have to be terminated,” he said, saying Horne opted for arbitration.
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