A spokesman for the Erie County, New York, government said officials will seek to fire a 911 dispatcher who hung up on a supermarket employee during the recent shooting rampage in Buffalo. The caller told local media she was whispering because she was hiding and didn’t want the gunman to hear her. She said the dispatcher asked why she was whispering, shouted at her, and hung up.
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