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posted by martyb on Friday June 02 2017, @11:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the two-and-a-half-years-later dept.

NPR, formerly National Public Radio, reports

Timothy Loehmann, the police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014, was fired by the Cleveland Police Department [May 30]. At a news conference, city authorities announced that the reason for his termination wasn't the deadly incident that brought him to national attention, but rather violations he committed in the course of his hiring process.

"Patrol officer Loehmann had been charged with rule violations concerning his application process to be considered a cadet with the Division of Police--specifically, answers he had provided on his personal history statement", Michael McGrath, the city's director of public safety, told reporters in prepared remarks.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer explains that Loehmann failed to disclose the full circumstances of how his time at a previous police department ended:

"Loehmann was allowed to resign from the Independence department after six months following a series of incidents where supervisors determined he was unfit to be a police officer.

"The disciplinary letter cites a letter in Loehmann's personnel file from Independence that says he was emotionally immature and had 'an inability to emotionally function'. The letter also cites an emotional breakdown Loehmann had on the gun range in Independence."

Cleveland authorities also announced that Frank Garmback, the officer driving the patrol car at the time Loehmann shot Tamir, would be suspended for 10 days for administrative rule violations of his own. He would also be required to take a tactical training course.

The penalties cap a review process conducted by Cleveland's Critical Incident Review Committee, or CIRC, in the wake of Tamir's death and the widespread protests it elicited. As the Plain Dealer reported last month, CIRC already "found no fault in the officers' actions leading up to, during and after the Nov. 22, 2014 shooting at Cudell Recreation Center on Cleveland's West Side".


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @09:57PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @09:57PM (#519591)

    What is included in this instruction goes WAY beyond interactions with cops.

    In a society where you are a racial minority that has been oppressed for 4 centuries and The System is uninterested in altering that, instructions on behavior given to the children of The White Majority is nowhere near as detailed.

    The Emmett Till story is an example.
    He grew up in Chicago, which, in 1955, was de facto segregated.
    What behavior was acceptable in Mississippi (by Blacks and by Whites) was, however, quite different from even the practices/prejudices that he was used to.

    For interacting with a White woman while visiting his kin in the Deep South, he was tortured to the point of gross disfigurement and murdered.

    Thinking that you understand what "The Talk" is demonstrates just how different the Black Experience is from the White Experience in the USA and shows how clueless you are in thinking that what you saw on "Good Times" on TeeVee was anything like reality.

    Cops shoot more white people than black people

    Black people are less than 13 percent of the USA's population.
    This gives a sizable margin before the numbers start lining up.
    Your statement is the typical horseshit spewed by people who are willfully ignorant.
    Stop consuming Faux Noise. It's filling your head with nonsense.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @10:11PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 02 2017, @10:11PM (#519598)

    Well, that or they don't listen to their elders.

    Who runs from cops? Black kids do. It's like running from a lion or wolf pack; it only encourages them to be more aggressive. You're sealing your doom when you do this.

    Most white kids don't do that shit. They know the deal: don't fuck with cops.

    If black kids got "The Talk" and white kids didn't, the above situation would be reversed.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @06:39PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @06:39PM (#519934)

      Some of the running is due to stupidity but some of it is an uncontrollable reaction to slave catchers which is probably encoded into their biology. This could even happen to anyone if they get pulled over/beaten/incarcerated by cops enough growing up. i now get pretty nervous or excited/pissed when cops pull me over and i was never beaten myself by cops. (many were fair to me, in fact) I didn't used to. It's just built up over time.