In 2006, Cariol Home was Buffalo, New York Police officer a year away from securing her pension and with 19 years on the force found herself in a situation where a white officer had a Black man who was handcuffed, in a choke hold. In this situation, the color of the skin of the participants should have been irrelevant and any officer should have intervened and stopped the other officer from choking a handcuffed individual. Cariol did just that and when it was all over, she lost her job, career and pension because she chose to do what was morally and legally correct. The systemic racism inherent in the culture of police departments and their unions across this country penalized her for having the audacity as a Black woman to intervene on the behalf of a Black person and stop a white police officer from "doing his job.". This is just another facet of the systemic racism that riddles our country like a cancer. #blacklivesmatter #justiceforgeorgefloyd #justiceforbreonnataylor #justiceforahmaudarbery (at North Auburn, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBicRWGB8K0/?igshid=d48x3vce4nzq











