A Good Apple ...
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... acknowledged as such 14 years too late:
[Former police officer] Horne was terminated by the city after she said she tried to stop a fellow officer who put a man in a chokehold during a 2006 arrest.
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On Tuesday, amidst a national reckoning over race and policing, a judge annulled her firing and ruled that she is entitled to her pension, benefits and back pay.
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"Recent events in the national news, including the death last year in the City of Minneapolis of George Floyd, who died from unreasonable physical force being applied for over nine minutes, have sparked national outrage over the use of his practice," wrote State Supreme Court Judge Dennis Ward in his 11-page ruling. "One of the issues in all of these cases is the role of other officers at the scene and particularly their complicity in failing to intervene to save the life of a person to whom such unreasonable physical force is being applied."
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Now, police officers who intervene are considered heroes, Ward wrote.
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"To her credit, Officer Horne did not merely stand by, but instead sought to intervene, despite the penalty she ultimately paid for doing so," Ward said.
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