Cariol Horne said the image of George Floyd dying at the hands of police in Minneapolis is triggering.
Former Buffalo police officer Cariol Horne was fired in 2008 after she says she stopped a white officer’s chokehold on a black suspect in handcuffs. Now, the Buffalo city council is asking the New York attorney general to investigate Horne’s firing.
Horne, a nearly 20-year veteran of the Buffalo Police Department, 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.
Derek Chauvin, the officer who pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck while he was on the ground and handcuffed, was fired and later charged with second-degree murder. Three other officers at the scene were charged with aiding and abetting a murder.
In 2006, then-officer Horne made headlines after intervening when she says fellow officer Greg Kwiatkowski was choking a black suspect, Neal Mack.
« Neal Mack looked like he was about to die, » Horne said. « So had I not stepped in, he possibly could have.
