Cariol Horne Updates 2020
Cariol Horne was the black officer who was terminated in 2008 after the Buffalo Police Department determined she used “unwarranted” physical force to stop the chokehold that white officer Gregory Kwiatkowski used during the 2006 arrest.
Buffalo City Council President Darius Pridgen told the Daily News on Monday he plans to request a meeting with New York State Attorney General Letitia James’s office after sending a letter from the council last week calling for a review. Darius Pridgen on a phone interview said;
“I think it’s important to look at the Cariol Horne case with a new set of eyes during this time of a new climate when it comes to police use of force,”
he added;
“I’m not sure how you plan for the future without looking back at the past, and that’s why I’ve called for another set of eye on this case,”
A Change.org petition demanding that Horne’s pension be restored topped 170,000 signatures Monday. Attempts to reach Horne were not immediately successful. Sofia Quintanara, a spokeswoman in James’s office, said in an email Monday.
“Our office is not commenting on this matter at this time,”
Horne’s case garnered renewed attention in the aftermath of George Floyd’s police homicide in Minneapolis.
Cariol Horne Wiki Bio
Cariol Horne was the black officer who was terminated in 2008 after the Buffalo Police Department determined she used “unwarranted” physical force to stop the chokehold that white officer Gregory Kwiatkowski used during the 2006 arrest.
The incident happened in November 2006. At the time, Officer Cariol Horne had served 19 of the 20 years needed to receive her pension. But Horne was fired for intervening and did not qualify for her pension, the city said. On an interview talking about the incident Cariol Horne said;
“You cross that thin blue line, then you get ostracized and treated really badly, I didn’t want that to happen to anyone else,”
she added;
“So, I lost my pension, [the suspect] didn’t lose his life, so [he] still lives to this day because I did intervene.”
