I was fired for intervening when a fellow police officer was choking a handcuffed suspect. He punched me in the face for my intervention. He was promoted, and my attempt to defend myself got me fired from a 19 year career and resulted in the loss of my pension. I don’t want my job back, but I worked hard for my pension to ensure my kids’ future. Please help me tell New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli to reinstate my pension and make a statement against injustice and corruption.
My name is Cariol Horne. I am a proud New Yorker and a mother of five,and for nearly a decade I have been appealing a wrongful firing and the loss of my pension. When I was fired by Buffalo PD, the department charged me with obstruction for stopping Officer Kwiatkowski’s brutal attack on an already cuffed and arrested suspect. Even Kwiatkowski himself disputes the facts of the charges that got me dismissed. And while he was allowed to retire with his pension I was swiftly let go.
Mr. Kwiatkowski has a long history of violence within the police force. He retired after he had been suspended for choking a fellow officer on the job, he has been written up for punching another officer while off duty and most recently, after being promoted to Lieutenant, along with two other officers, was charged with federal felony civil rights violations for shooting a young African-American boy in his custody with a BB gun. From where I stand this is not a person that protects and serves but rather threatens the safety of officers and regular citizens alike.
I no longer want my job back. Now, I work as a truck driver. However, I worked hard for my pension and was wrongly fired for doing my job — stopping the abuse of a man who couldn’t defend himself. Buffalo PD allowed Kwiatkowski to continue on the force as a supervisor despite his several infractions, but released me without a suspension on my record.
Help me fight for justice and my kids’ future and tell New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli to reinstate my pension and make a statement against injustice and corruption.
For more information about my case please see the links below.
Fired Buffalo cop tells her side
Lt. Gregory Kwiatkowski charged with felony civil rights violations.
Sign petition here: https://www.change.org/p/thomas-p-dinapoli-don-t-punish-a-good-cop-for-standing-up-to-police-brutality
Hey, all you cops! See how fast you can go under the bus? Stand up to a psycho & down you go. She should have”feared for her life” & blasted his ass!
Another blog showed the other cop’s face he even looks like a psycho! FN Pig!
“Help me fight for justice and my kids’ future and tell New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli to reinstate my pension and make a statement against injustice and corruption.”
STILL haven’t figured it out, have you.
You’ll get no justice in this country these days.
Now we know what happens to “good” cops when they try to intervene against a rogue cop, one that should have been fired long before this incident. Just shows the rest of the officers that they need to look the other way if they ever hope to collect their pensions.
Well then, proof that all the good cops are gone. So what are we waiting for? Since only the bad ones are left, let’s go round them up and clean house, dammit! 😡