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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9418236" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="cariol-horne">Cariol Horne</keyword> was fired from Buffalo's <keyword id="11098" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="police">police</keyword> force after stopping a white colleague's chokehold.</li><li>After years of litigation, a judge said she should get her wages and pension back.</li><li>The judge said the deaths of George Floyd and Eric Garner show why cops shouldn't be bystanders.</li></ul>A judge ruled Tuesday that the City of Buffalo must reinstate the pension of Cariol Horne, a Black police officer it fired after she stopped a white colleague's chokehold on a handcuffed man in 2006.<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/20615149-2021-010228_2008_cariol_j_horne_v_city_of_buffalo_et_al_decision___order_on_49">In his ruling</a>, New York state Supreme Court Judge Dennis Ward cited the deaths of George Floyd and Eric Garner, two Black men killed in police custody, to show why it was right for Horne to act."The Floyd case as well as another notable case in New York, concerning Eric Garner, both involved multiple officers who either did nothing or actually assisted the officer applying the physical force, even while the individual was crying out that he 'could not breathe,'" Ward wrote.Horne responded to a call to help her colleague, Gregory Kwiatkowski, during an arrest. When she arrived, she found the arrestee, a Black man, already in handcuffs and saying he couldn't breathe as Kwiatkowski put him in a chokehold, according to court records. She forcibly removed Kwiatkowski and stopped the chokehold, records say.Horne was reassigned following the incident and ultimately fired in 2008, a year short of the 20 years of service needed to receive a full pension."The message was sent that you don't cross that blue line and so some officers - many officers don't," <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/16/us/buffalo-police-officer-fired-chokehold-objection-trnd/index.html">Horne told CNN in 2020</a>.Horne sued the city to reinstate her wages and pension, but a judge ruled against her in 2010.In the wake of George Floyd's death in 2020, Buffalo officials called for a review of the case, <a href="https://www.insider.com/buffalo-officials-demand-probe-black-officer-fired-white-partner-chokehold-2020-6">as Insider's Ashley Collman reporter at the time</a>, and the city council passed "Carol's Law" that established a duty for officers to intervene in <keyword id="1238121" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="excessive-force">excessive force</keyword> situations. Attorneys from Kirkland &amp; Ellis, a high-powered law firm, and members of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School represented Horne pro-bono to sue the city again.This time, the judge ruled in her favor. Ward said that police officers who intervene while witnessing excessive force are now "seen as heroes.""To her credit, Officer Horne did not merely stand by, but instead sought to intervene, despite the penalty she ultimately paid for doing so," he said.Ward vacated Horne's termination, permitting her to collect back-wages and receive her pension."We are gratified that the court recognized that former Buffalo Police Officer Cariol Horne did the right thing in 2006 when she intervened when a fellow police officer had a chokehold on an arrestee," Neil Eggleston, a White House counsel for President Barack Obama and partner at Kirkland &amp; Ellis, said in a statement. "The court has now set aside her wrongful termination from the police force, awarded her back pay, and has given her pension credit."Kwiatkowski himself retired in 2011. He pleaded guilty to civil rights charges brought in 2012 for his conduct during the arrest of four black teenagers and ultimately spent four months in prison, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/14/cariol-horne-pension-ruling/">according to the Washington Post</a>.

A judge reinstated the pension of a Black police officer fired after stopping a white colleague's chokehold, citing George Floyd

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="9418236" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="cariol-horne">Cariol Horne</keyword> was fired from the <keyword id="9401861" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="buffalo-police-department">Buffalo Police Department</keyword> in 2008 for intervening when her white partner put a suspect in a chokehold two years prior.</li><li>Horne had jumped on the back of her partner when he put a suspect in a chokehold. An internal investigation in 2008 said Horne had displayed an "extreme lack of professionalism" and put "lives in danger."</li><li>Following <keyword id="9295731" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="george-floyd">George Floyd</keyword>'s fatal arrest, the <keyword id="6432379" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="buffalo">Buffalo</keyword> Common Council passed a resolution calling for the <keyword id="6355838" type="LOCATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="new-york">New York</keyword> State Attorney General's Office to take a second look at the case. </li><li>Horne was one year shy of qualifying for her pension when she was fired. The city council has asked the attorney general to look how many days Horne would need to work to get her pension.</li></ul>Buffalo officials are calling for an investigation into the firing of a Black police officer who intervened when her white partner put a suspect in a chokehold 14 years ago. Cariol Horne was fired from the Buffalo Police Department in 2008 for jumping on the back of fellow officer Gregory Kwiatkowski when he put suspect David N. Mack in a chokehold during a November 2006 arrest.An internal investigation found that Horne displayed an "extreme lack of professionalism" and put "lives in danger," <a href="https://buffalonews.com/2008/05/10/hornes-actions-criticized-in-report-fired-police-officer-called-unprofessional/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Buffalo News</a> reported at the time. But after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the Buffalo Common Council passed a resolution asking the New York State Attorney General's Office to take another look at Horne's firing, and the loss of her pension. Floyd died after officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes.Horne had served 19 years with the police when she was fired, a year shy of qualifying for her pension. The resolution passed last week by the city council asks the attorney general's office to look into how many days Horne would need to work in order to qualify for her pension. In an interview with <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/16/us/buffalo-police-officer-fired-chokehold-objection-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN </a>on Tuesday, Horne said her firing shows the system in place that keeps officers from intervening and reporting when another officer uses excessive force. "The message was sent that you don't cross that blue line and so some officers — many officers don't," Horne said. "I don't want any officer to go through what I have gone through," she added. "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."Buffalo Common Council President Darius Pridgen told <a href="https://www.wivb.com/news/top-stories/buffalo-common-council-asking-state-attorney-generals-office-to-take-a-look-into-the-controversial-incident-of-police-brutality-and-the-former-police-officer-cariol-horne-who-tried-to-stop-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WIVB</a> that now is the perfect time to reexamine Horne's case. "We now have a totally different attorney general, we have a total different climate and atmosphere and lens right now, across this world, as it deals with policing in the United States," Pridgen said, according to the outlet. "So I think it's an opportune time to look back at this case and to see were there civil rights violations can she be made whole."Kwiatkowski, the officer Horne jumped on during the 2006 arrest, was later sentenced to four months in jail for using excessive force in a separate arrest of four Black teens in 2009. He retired from the force before the sentence was handed down, citing post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the <a href="https://buffalonews.com/2018/12/12/former-buffalo-cop-sentenced-to-prison-and-home-confinement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Buffalo News</a>. <ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/zach-braff-says-not-enough-to-have-black-best-friend-donald-faison-2020-6">Zach Braff: 'It's not enough' to say I have a Black best friend in Donald Faison</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/da-officer-could-face-felony-murder-charges-over-rayshard-brooks-2020-6">The officer that shot Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta could face felony murder charges for 'unreasonable' escalation, the prosecutor says</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/confederate-general-city-considering-changing-its-name-2020-6">The California city of Fort Bragg was named after a Confederate general. It's now considering changing its name.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/five-white-virginia-residents-hate-crimes-charges-attacked-black-pastor-2020-6">A Black pastor was arrested after pulling out a gun while under attack. The sheriff apologized, and now 5 alleged assailants face hate crimes charges.</a></li></ul>

Buffalo officials are demanding a probe into the 2008 firing of a Black police officer who intervened when her partner carried out a chokehold on a suspect

<ul class="summary-list"><li>City officials in Buffalo, New York, have called on state Attorney General Letitia James to investigate the 2008 firing of a Black Buffalo Police Officer who stopped another officer from choking a suspect during an arrest. </li><li>The officer who attempted to use the chokehold was arrested and sentenced to four months in prison a decade later for his use of excessive force against four Black teenagers.</li><li>Cariol Horne, the fired officer, has since become an activist against <keyword id="53374" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Police-Brutality">police brutality</keyword>.</li><li>The <keyword id="9401861" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="buffalo-police-department">Buffalo Police Department</keyword> made headlines earlier this month when two officers shoved a 75-year-old man to the ground on video.</li></ul>Officials on the Buffalo, New York, City Council have asked the New York attorney general to investigate the 2008 firing of a Black police officer who said she was terminated after she intervened to stop another officer's use of a chokehold during an arrest. In 2008, Cariol Horne was fired from the Buffalo Police Department following her actions in a 2006 incident that involved her stopping a white police officer from using a chokehold on a suspect while making an arrest, according to NBC <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news">News</keyword>.According to <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/policy/criminal-justice/black-buffalo-cop-stopped-another-officers-chokehold-she-was-fired">City &amp; State New York</a>, Horne in 2006 jumped on the back of fellow officer Gregory Kwiatkowski, who is white, who was using a chokehold on a Black suspect.Horne was fired after the arbitration process determined she put the lives of other police officers, including the officer who attempted to use a chokehold, in danger, according to <a href="https://www.wgrz.com/article/news/local/common-council-wants-new-york-state-to-look-into-buffalo-police-firing/71-b079f45a-db29-40b3-a504-77883f22e79d">WGRZ</a>. Horne, who was an officer with BPD for 19 years was terminated one year before she was eligible to receive her pension, according to NBC. Since her firing more than a decade ago, Horne has become an activist for police reform and has attempted to pass legislation in the state of New York that would protect officers who intervene to prevent other cops from using excessive force, NBC News reported."Now with so much attention being on the present and what some officers have done negatively, it is very difficult for some people to move forward if we have not repaired the past," Darius Pridgen, the president of the Buffalo Common Council, told WGRZ.He added: "If she did what she did 13 years ago, if she did it today, how would it be viewed? And I think it would be viewed a lot differently."In 2018, Kwiatkowski, the officer whom Horne stopped from using a chokehold, was arrested and sentenced to four months in prison for use of excessive force against four Black teenagers, according to NBC News.Neither the BPD nor the office of the New York Attorney General Letitia James immediately returned Insider's request for comment on Sunday.The Buffalo Police Department made headlines earlier this month when <a href="https://www.insider.com/video-protester-shoved-by-police-bleeds-ears-buffalo-2020-6">two of its officers were caught on video pushing a 75-year-old man to the ground during a protest on June 4</a>. Dozens of other officers watched and marched past the man as he laid on the ground, bleeding from his head.A lawyer for Martin Gugino, the man pushed to the ground, said he suffered a brain injury following the fall, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/75-year-old-man-shoved-ground-buffalo-police-suffered-brain-n1230421">NBC News</a>. Buffalo officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalaski, 32 and 39 respectively, have pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree assault. Both McCabe and Torgalaski have been suspended without pay.In response to their suspension, <a href="https://www.insider.com/buffalo-police-officers-resign-support-colleague-pushed-elderly-protester-2020-6">some 57 Buffalo Police Officers responded by resigning</a> from the police force's emergency response team. "Fifty-seven resigned in disgust because of the treatment of two of their members, who were simply executing orders," said John Evans, the police union president, told the Investigative Post.Some <a href="https://www.insider.com/city-police-departments-ban-chokeholds-other-deadly-force-options-2020-6">cities and states around the country have announced the probation of neck restraints and chokeholds amid nationwide protest</a> following the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/13-concrete-changes-sparked-by-george-floyd-protests-so-far-2020-6">police killing of 46-year-old George Floyd in Minneapolis</a>. A white police officer was recorded for more than eight minutes holding his knee to Floyd's neck even though he said he couldn't breathe and eventually lost consciousness. Read more: <a href="https://www.insider.com/ilhan-omar-supports-calls-to-dismantle-the-minneapolis-police-2020-6">Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar supports calls to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department: 'you can't really reform a department that is rotten to the root'</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/police-officers-stress-mental-health-stigma-impacting-public-2020-6">Police officers stigmatize seeking help for mental-health issues. It could be damaging for the communities they're supposed to serve and protect.</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/white-couple-called-police-man-of-color-writing-his-property-2020-6">A white couple called the police on a man for stenciling 'Black Lives Matter' in chalk on his own property</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/atlanta-police-footage-show-moments-officer-shot-dead-black-man-2020-6">Police have released bodycam footage showing the struggle before the fatal shooting of Black man Rayshard Brooks by Atlanta police</a>

New York attorney general called to probe the 2008 firing of a Black Buffalo police officer who jumped on a white colleague's back to stop him from using a chokehold

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The video of <keyword id="9295731" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="george-floyd">George Floyd</keyword>'s fatal arrest has led many to question why the three other officers involved didn't intervene to stop Derek Chauvin from kneeling on his neck.</li><li>Insider spoke to experts on <keyword id="11098" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="police">police</keyword> culture, including former officers, who explained the norms that empower some cops to use force, and others to let it happen without reporting it.</li><li>Officers who intervene or report on their fellow cops are often ostracized and have their trustworthiness on the force questioned.</li></ul>What many people have found troubling about George Floyd's death is how the three other officers at the scene failed to intervene. Video of the fatal arrest shows now ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes, while two other officers held down the Black man's back and legs down and a fourth officer stood guard. Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder, while the three other officers have been accused of aiding and abetting second-degree murder.<div type="image" title="4x3 minneapolis police officers george floyd death" height="1500" width="2000" msid="76624908" hostid="261"></div>Lawyers for two of the officers tried to explain their actions <a href="https://www.insider.com/george-floyd-alexander-kueng-thomas-lane-rookies-defense-lawyers-2020-6">by saying they were just a few days into the job</a>, and that they were unable to challenge Chauvin, their training officer and a 19-year veteran of the force.But there is a well-documented culture in the police field that may also explain why they didn't speak up.Insider spoke to experts in police behavior, who explained how this culture empowers some officers to use force, and prevents others from stepping in or reporting this behavior.<h2>A troubling pattern </h2>Police officers are often "ostracized" if they intervene when a fellow cop is using excessive force, or report on another officer for crossing a line, according to John Kleinig, an expert on police ethics at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.Kleinig says ratting on another officer, or simply calling out bad behavior, can lead to questions about that officer's trustworthiness.Trust is especially important in policing, where officers need to feel like someone has their back in dangerous situations, Kleinig said.<div type="image" title="Frank Serpico" height="1233" width="2000" msid="76624909" hostid="261"></div>Perhaps the most famous case is that of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/nyregion/24serpico.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frank Serpico</a>, a New York City police detective who became a pariah for blowing the whistle about NYPD corruption in the 1960s and 70s.He quit the force in 1971 when he was shot during a drug bust and fellow officers failed to immediately call for an ambulance. Serpico's story was turned into the 1973 Oscar-nominated movie — "Serpico" — starring Al Pacino in the title role.Floyd's death has also brought light to a more recent case illustrating the police culture of silence.The Buffalo Common Council recently passed a resolution asking the New York State Attorney General to <a href="https://www.insider.com/buffalo-officials-demand-probe-black-officer-fired-white-partner-chokehold-2020-6">look into the 2008 firing of Cariol Horne</a>, a Black police officer who was punished after jumping on her white partner's back when he put a Black suspect in a chokehold during an arrest two years prior.Horne was reprimanded for the incident, told she put her fellow officer's life at risk, and fired one year before qualifying for her pension.The officer who performed the chokehold was later sentenced to four months in jail in connection to an unrelated case, in which he was accused of using excessive force while arresting four Black teens in 2009.<div type="image" title="cariol horne" height="1125" width="1500" msid="76624912" hostid="261"></div><h2>How the system works</h2>There's also the case of Paul Manning, a police officer in Ontario, Canada, who <a href="https://twitter.com/mobinfiltrator/status/1271432151142223872" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on June 12 tweeted</a> that he was punished for reporting on a colleague whom he saw punch a minor in the face, for seemingly no reason other than the fact that they had called him "a name."After making his report, Manning said he was punished for failing to communicate with his fellow officer. He said he was then moved away from his team, and officers started refusing to work with him or offer backup when he responded to calls."My appraisal that year reflected incompetence and unworthiness of the position of constable. Every position or course I applied for I was refused. I continued to #whistleblow until the Chief told me 'You really have no concept of brotherhood, do you?'" he tweeted.Manning told Insider he decided to tell his story after hearing the public debate after Floyd's death. He said some people started bringing up a common metaphor to defend the police: <a href="https://www.insider.com/protester-dounya-zayer-new-york-attorney-general-hearing-good-cops-2020-6">that not all cops are bad</a> and that the perpetrators in cases like Floyd's are just a few "bad apples." "I just want to show how the system works," he said. "To show that good apples don't have the opportunity to come forward. They don't have safeguards in place to protect them from reprisals."<h2>The 'Blue Wall of Silence'</h2>Kleinig said he believes something called the "Blue Wall of Silence" was at play in Floyd's arrest.The term refers to the act of officers not reporting bad behavior committed by fellow cops, including in cases of police brutality. It is a common feature of police culture.This extends to not questioning an officer's use of force in the middle of an arrest, Kleinig said."They don't intervene because it indicates that you're not really one of us. You're an outsider, we can't trust you. You might turn against us," Kleinig said. <div type="image" title="blm protesters" height="1333" width="2000" msid="76624915" hostid="261"></div>Thomas Nolan, a 27-year veteran of the Boston Police Department who now works as a sociology professor, agreed that the blue wall of silence is prevalent in many police departments, but said what happened in Minneapolis was "inconceivable" and actually a violation of the police code.He said that while police officers almost never rat on each other, they should feel free to intervene when they think another officer is in the wrong. "What happened out on the street, that shouldn't have happened, because part of the cop culture is that — while we won't speak about or second guess someone's use of force —we would never do something that put another guy in trouble," Nolan said."That's what Chauvin did in using excessive force in a public place. He put those other three cops in jeopardy and that's a serious violation of the code, as evidenced by the fact that the other three got fired."I'm surprised and continue to be surprised and outraged that someone didn't just go over and pull this guy off, given the level of resistance — or lack of resistance — that Mr. Floyd was offering to the officers," he said.<div type="image" title="george floyd memorial" height="646" width="861" msid="76624918" hostid="261"></div><h2>'Not what Robert Peel envisaged'</h2>Kleinig, Nolan, and Manning listed some potential changes that could help address this culture of silence and prevent deaths like Floyd's from happening in the future. "Ultimately, what needs to happen is we seriously consider reimagining the entire role we have historically seen police officers occupy in cities in the US," Nolan said. When asked about <a href="https://www.insider.com/what-will-defund-police-look-like-minneapolis-2020-6">defunding the police</a> — an option being pushed by protesters and some city councilors that would involve redistributing part of police funding to other community organizations — Nolan said: "I think it's fair to question the resources and tax dollars we have historically been allocating to the police without question or evaluation."Manning said defunding the police "is a really good idea." "We definitely need to change up the policing model. Kneeling on people's necks and killing them is not what Robert Peel envisaged," Manning said, referring to the Victorian-era British prime minister considered to be the father of modern policing. <div type="image" title="george floyd protester" height="1333" width="2000" msid="76624919" hostid="261"></div>Kleinig said there should be "concrete protections" for whistleblowers, and that police departments should work more with other organizations who may be better equipped to deal with issues like homelessness.Kleinig also said police should be "trained to deescalate." "Deescalation has been far underused in police work. Deescalation often sounds like backing off and so police do not like to back off, because backing off means that somebody else has in some way succeeded in challenging their authority," Kleinig said. <h2>Backed by the union</h2>Kleinig also pointed to police unions as one of the biggest issues when it comes to the current culture of silence. In some departments, police unions have negotiated so that authorities have to wait 30 days before they can interview an officer involved in an incident under investigation, he said."By which time of course, the police have had a chance to fix up their story," he said. <div type="image" title="george floyd protest" height="1667" width="2222" msid="76624925" hostid="261"></div>While Kleinig said he supports police unions, he admits that some have grown too powerful. "What's happened, as sometimes happens with other unions, is they've increasingly expanded their range of interests and some of those interests are not in the interests of the public, who the police are expected to serve," Kleinig said. <h2>The future of the status quo</h2>Ultimately, Nolan and Kleinig were doubtful about the likelihood of real change, despite the widespread protests.Nolan said he "can't be convinced that it's possible" for the police culture to change.Kleinig said he fears that "all the hopefulness" for change in the current moment will "only very minimally be met." "It's very, very unlikely that some of the major changes that people want will occur," Kleinig said.<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/video-shows-officer-from-george-floyd-death-confronted-while-shopping-2020-6">A video shows one of the police officers charged in George Floyd's death being confronted while grocery shopping and asked 'do you feel any remorse?'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/derek-chauvin-minority-corrections-officers-barred-from-guarding-lawsuit-2020-6">8 nonwhite corrections officers say their supervisor forbade them from guarding Derek Chauvin, saying they would be a 'liability,' according to discrimination lawsuit</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/george-floyd-rayshard-brooks-police-killings-worsen-black-communitys-mistrust-2020-6">The deaths of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks have soured the already strained relationship between Black people and the police</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/protester-dounya-zayer-new-york-attorney-general-hearing-good-cops-2020-6">A female protester who was shoved to the street by a police officer testified at the New York attorney general's hearing: 'Where are the good cops I keep hearing of?'</a></li><li><a href="https://www.insider.com/george-floyd-death-black-police-officers-speak-out-2020-6">Disgusted, embarrassed, and ready to defund the police: Here's how some Black police officers across the nation feel about George Floyd's death</a></li></ul>

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A judge reinstated the pension of a Black police officer fired after stopping a white colleague's chokehold, citing George Floyd

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New York attorney general called to probe the 2008 firing of a Black Buffalo police officer who jumped on a white colleague's back to stop him from using a chokehold

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