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Former Police Officer Cariol Horne wins 15-year battle with Buffalo Police Department

Published April 22, 2021 by Christopher di Armani Filed Under: Police Brutality, Positive Role Models


It took 15 years, homelessness, depression and PTSD, but Cariol Horne, the former Buffalo Police Department police officer who was fired for saving Neal Mack’s life in 2006, finally won her battle with her former employer.

“I got punched in the face, was not allowed to file criminal charges, fired and lost my pension.  I continue to advocate against the beatings and killing of unarmed citizens by bad Police.  In 2016 I wrote legislation called Cariol’s Law which protects Officers who do intervene and holds, those that don’t, accountable.  George Floyd, Eric Garner, Quentin Suttles, Wardel “Meech” Davis and others needed Cariol’s Law; Duty to Intervene.”

“My life was turned upside down,” Cariol Horne said.

“I was homeless. I went through depression and PTSD from the incident. It was just horrible.”

“Cariol Horne acted to keep a white officer from using what she saw as excessive force. Fifteen years later, a judge said her firing was wrong,” Jonah E. Bromwich wrote in the New York Times.

It was a cold November day in Buffalo when Officer Cariol Horne responded to a call for a colleague in need of help. What she encountered was a white officer who appeared to be “in a rage” punching a handcuffed Black man in the face repeatedly as other officers stood by.

Officer Horne, who is Black, heard the handcuffed man say he could not breathe and saw the white officer put him in a chokehold. At that point, court documents show, she forcibly removed the white officer and began to trade blows with him.

In the altercation’s aftermath, Officer Horne was reassigned, hit with departmental charges and, eventually, fired just one year short of the 20 on the force she needed to collect her full pension. She tried, and failed, more than once to have the decision reversed as unfair.

On Tuesday, in an outcome explicitly informed by the police killing of George Floyd, a state court judge vacated an earlier ruling that affirmed her firing, essentially rewriting the end of her police career, and granting her the back pay and benefits she had previously been denied.

“My vindication comes at a 15-year cost, but what has been gained could not be measured,” Cariol Horne said.

“I never wanted another police officer to go through what I had gone through for doing the right thing.”

From Justice Dennis E. Ward‘s decision:

Quoting the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘the time is always right to do right.”  The City of Buffalo has recognized the error and has acknowledged the need to undo an injustice from the past. The legal system can at the very least be the mechanism to help justice prevail, even if belatedly. While the Eric Garners and George Floyds of the world never had a chance for a ‘do over’ at least here the correction can be done.

It is therefore the decision of this court as follows:

    1. The Petitioner’s original motion to vacate the decision of this court, dated July 26, 2010 and the order and judgement thereof, dated August 4, 2010, is GRANTED.
    2. The findings and recommendations of the hearing officer are hereby ANNULLED.
    3. The termination of the Petitioner as a City of Buffalo Police Officer based upon such findings and recommendations are hereby VACATED; and,
    4. The Petitioner’s amended motion for a cause of action under the newly enacted City Charter provision is likewise GRANTED.
    5. The court fins the Petitioner would have been physically capable of performing her duties during the time period for which she is seeking relief, and the Petitioner is therefore reinstated as a police officer with the City of Buffalo nunc pro tunc, for the period of July 26, 2008 through August 4, 2010 and shall be entitled to back wages and benefits for such period.
    6. The Respondent City of Buffalo is directed to make an award of back pay in the proper amount, to make any required pension contributions for that period of time, and to take such other steps as are necessary to implement this Decision and Judgment.

It is so Ordered and Adjudged.

Dated April 13, 2021

 

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Comments

  1. Dave says

    April 22, 2021 at 9:00 am

    Love to see right outcomes.

    Reply
  2. bob martin says

    April 22, 2021 at 12:48 pm

    What was her full pay out for going through all the pain and suffering. It took too long to see it resolve what a horrible experience. Bob Martin ramgbs.wordpress.com

    Reply
    • Christopher di Armani says

      April 22, 2021 at 2:04 pm

      She was re-instated as a police officer for 2 years so she could receive her full 20-year pension. So back pay for roughly 2 years and (I assume) back pay for her pension for the past 15 years as well. When you read the judge’s decision, it’s unclear exactly how the payout will be structured.

      Reply
  3. John Doe says

    April 22, 2021 at 4:51 pm

    An honest judge. It reminds me of the officers who stood by while Mantler viciously kicked the handcuffed and innocent Buddy Tavares in the face and almost killed him, maiming him for life. And no one did a thing at the time.

    Reply
  4. Joe says

    April 29, 2021 at 10:29 pm

    good outcome but what about the cop she stopped? What happened to him?

    Reply
    • Christopher di Armani says

      April 30, 2021 at 4:08 pm

      He had a long history of abusing people and it eventually came out. He was convicted of police brutality charges some time later.

      Reply

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