A 911 dispatcher accused of shouting at and hanging up on a worker who was hiding at the Buffalo supermarket as Saturday’s racially motivated mass shooting took place has been put on administrative leave and faces firing, officials said.
The Erie County dispatcher, who was not identified, shouted at the female employee and demanded to know why she was “whispering,” before hanging up, the worker told The Buffalo News. The call was placed as an 18-year old suspect was spraying the Tops Friendly Market with gunfire in a horrific attack that left 10 dead and three wounded.
“She was yelling at me, saying, ‘Why are you whispering? You don’t have to whisper,’” the employee, identified as Latisha, an assistant office manager at the market, told the newspaper. “And I was telling her, ‘Ma’am, he’s still in the store. He’s shooting. I’m scared for my life. I don’t want him to hear me. Can you please send help?’ She got mad at me, hung up in my face.”
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