Ex-Buffalo police officer Cariol Horne will receive her full pension after the State Supreme Court reversed a decision that upheld that her firing was legal. She was terminated after stopping her white partner from choking a Black suspect to death.
Source: Nia Noelle / Nia Noelle A black woman's story about her firing from the Buffalo Police Department recently went viral in the wake of George Floyd's death. Cariol Horne, served as a member of the force for over 19 years before she was unceremoniously fired in 2008. Horne says she stopped a white officer's chokehold on a black suspect in handcuffs and believes she was fired in retaliation for it. Horne told CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan the image of George Floyd dying at the hands of police in Minneapolis is triggering. "Looking at the video, it was very upsetting, and I felt that if one of those officers has stepped in that he would be alive today," she said. Luckily for the suspect in Horne's case, Neal Mack, she DID step in and she believes she saved a man's life. Neal Mack agrees that his life was saved and has praised Horne for stepping in.