A 911 dispatcher is on leave and may lose her job after allegedly hanging up on an supermarket employee hiding during this weekend’s shooting rampage in Buffalo, New York.
Highlights
- A 911 dispatcher has been placed on leave and may lose her job after allegedly hanging up on an supermarket employee hiding during this weekend’s shooting rampage in Buffalo, New York.
- The store employee alleges the dispatcher shouted at her, asked why she was whispering — then hung up.
- An assistant office manager at Tops Friendly Market, where 10 Black people were killed by a white gunman Saturday, said she had to call her boyfriend and tell him to dial 911 and report the shooting.
- It’s unclear who hung up on whom 911 call was hung up, a spokesperson for Erie County, said Peter Anderson, spokesperson for the executive of Erie County.