Tops employee Latisha Rogers claims a 911 operator hung up on her during Saturday’s grocery store massacre in Buffalo, NY Rogers said the operator used a ‘nasty tone’ with her for whispering on the call The dispatcher has been placed on administrative leave and could be terminated Officials have reviewed the 911 call and are investigating the incident Ten people were killed in the shooting which was allegedly orchestrated by 18-year-old Payton Gendron, a self-proclaimed white supremacist. A 911 operator has been suspended after she allegedly hung up on the upstate New York supermarket worker who called for help as a white supremacist gunned down 10 black people. (…) ‘I called 911, I go through the whole operator and everything, the dispatcher comes on and I’m whispering to her,’ she told WGRZ Wednesday. ‘I said ‘Miss, please send help to 1275 Jefferson there is a shooter in the store.” Rogers claims the dispatcher responded in a ‘nasty tone’ and questioned why she was whispering, before hanging up on her.  ‘She says ‘I can’t hear you, why are you whispering? You don’t have to whisper, they can’t hear you,” the Tops employee recalled.  ‘So, I continued to whisper and I said ‘ma’am he’s still in the store, he’s still shooting! I’m scared for my life, please send help.’ Out of nervousness, my phone fell out of my hand, she said something I couldn’t make out, and then the phone hung up.’

via daily mail: 911 operator is suspended after HANGING UP on Buffalo supermarket worker who called for help as white supremacist gunned down 10 people

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