Officer Detail: Amber M. Beyer
Assignment History
Job Title | Badge No. | Unit | Start Date | End Date | |
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Lieutenant | L436 | Unknown | |||
Captain | L436 | Commissioner's Office | 2023-02-02 | ||
Captain | Suspended w/out Pay | Behavioral Health Team | 2023-01-19 | 2023-02-02 | |
Captain | Suspended w Pay | Behavioral Health Team | 2022-12-02 | 2023-01-19 |
Salary
Annual Salary | Overtime | Total Pay | Year |
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$96,712.60 | $35,569.04 | $132,281.64 | FY2022 |
$87,145.39 | $28,323.13 | $115,468.52 | FY2021 |
$86,858.24 | $22,215.98 | $109,074.22 | FY2020 |
Incidents
Incident 221 |
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Date | May 02, 2022 |
Department | Buffalo Police Department |
Officers | Amber M. Beyer , John F. Beyer , Joseph(Joe) A. Gramaglia Iii |
Description | 13 days before a white supremacist lynched ten Black people in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, Police Captain and head the Behavioral Health Team, Amber Beyer read aloud a Facebook post by a resident with a mental illness that the behavioral team was going to check on. In the post, the resident freely used a racial slur that targets Black people. Beyer yelled out the word as she read the post to members of her team, In her racist rant, Beyer said Black cops were more likely to cheat on their wives than white cops and she’d be suspicious if she saw a Black man in her neighborhood. She claimed white police officers suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from working in Black neighborhoods, but Black officers did not, because they were more accustomed to violent crime. Beyer told Black officers they should try to understand how the criminality of Black people justified some racism. Beyer offered these opinions on May 2 in the Behavioral Health Team’s office in police headquarters on Court Street. Captain Beyer did not apologize and said she had just been repeating what her husband, a patrol lieutenant, had stated. OutcomeA lawsuit was filed in federal court by two Buffalo police officers and a civilian mental health clinician. The civil rights complaint is still being litigated. Beyer was put on a 30-day unpaid suspension. She no longer heads the Behavioral Health Team and has been reassigned. The Behavioral Health Team pairs police officers with mental health clinicians to respond to calls regarding people having mental health crises. |
Address |
Court St
Buffalo, NY |
Incident 228 |
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Date | Aug 14, 2015 |
Department | Buffalo Police Department |
Officers | Amber M. Beyer , John F. Beyer , Richard N. Hy |
Description | Officer Beyer and Officer Hy viciously attacked Gregory Ramos, dragged him into the yard threw him into a police car. Then Beyer approached Ramos laughing and told him that if his eyeballs fell out, that she would tape them back to his face, and that would be the only medical attention he would receive. Then Officer Beyer and Hy drove Ramos to a parking lot where he sat handcuffed for several hours until they drove him to central booking. |
Address | Buffalo, NY |
Links
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Black Employees At Buffalo Police Department Say Their Captain Went On Racist Tirade
Amber Beyer said that if she saw a Black man in her neighborhood, she would be suspicious, a federal lawsuit alleges. - HuffPost
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Lawsuit: Police captain went on racist ‘rant’
Two Black officers and a mental health clinician say their supervisor with Buffalo police made a series of outrageous, derogatory remarks at a May meeting and later kept it up with extensive use of the N word. - Investigative Post
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Behavioral Health Team
Buffalo Police Department
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Ramos v Hy et elia
Complaint - United States District Court Western District of New York
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Hawkins vs COB, BPD, Amber Beyer
Complaint - United States District Court Western District of New York
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Buffalo Police captain suspended while allegations in lawsuit are investigated
The lawsuit alleges that Captain Amber Beyer violated their civil rights through racist rants they claim she made in front of her unit. - WGRZ
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Officers discuss lawsuit against Buffalo Police Captain for racist rant
The officers who filed a lawsuit against Buffalo Police Captain Amber Beyer, spoke to 7 News, about the racist rant and the response by BPD. - WKBW
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BPD captain facing lawsuit for alleged racism will no longer oversee Behavioral Health Team
Buffalo Police Department captain Amber Beyer, who is facing a lawsuit for alleged racism, will no longer serve as the Crisis Services Coordinator overseeing the Behavioral Health Team. According to Gramaglia, Beyer will temporarily be assigned to the commissioner's office and be required to bid into an open position by seniority per the CBA. - WKBW
Other videos
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Amber Beyer should be fired
This is absolutely absurd and I’m no way, shape, or form should she be allowed to keep her job. - TikTok | kenthicc