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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
Was thinking ‘what if’ - as in what if one of the rookies had stepped up and pulled the senior cop off of Floyd? He would have been hailed as a hero and/or sanctioned for breaking ranks and interfering with a senior officer.
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Not Minneapolis, but this same scenario played out in Buffalo, NY back in 2006. The intervening officer, a black woman named Cariol Horne who had 19 years experience on the police force (
1 year short of pension eligibility), stopped a fellow officer who was choking a suspect. She was fired and lost her pension under the justification that she put another officer's safety in danger.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/artic...-she-was-fired
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After she was fired, Horne worked several jobs to make ends meet. “It didn’t just affect me,” Horne told Spectrum News in 2016. “I have three sons that I have to worry about now. The message that they sent was clear: Even as a police officer, you don’t stand up against police brutality.”
On Tuesday, the Buffalo Common Council approved three resolutions in the wake of George Floyd’s death and the recent protests against police brutality. One of the resolutions will enforce the city’s “duty to intervene” policy, which mandates that officers intervene if they see another officer using excessive force. The council will also create a task force to review police policies, and the third resolution will ask the state attorney general’s office to determine how many days Horne would need to work to regain her pension.
Since her firing in 2008, Horne has become outspoken against police brutality and hopes to have legislation passed in her name that would protect officers who intervene when another officer uses excessive force and when reporting misconduct by fellow officers. According to McDuffie, a petition campaign is expected to unfold within the next few days to draw attention to the need for such legislation.
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Emphasis added.