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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".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 03 2017, @06:27PM
don't be ridiculous. i'm well aware of "the talk". i've seen the professional victims on tv lamenting the evil racists trying to kill their innocent black youth because whites are all weak and scared of their awesome blackness. It's always some otherwise respectable black people, who i could empathize with if it weren't the fact that they were being useful idiots pushing some white guilt agenda. I said her fat, welfare potato chip eating, 3 liter walmart soda drinking ass should have "taught him better", not brainwash him into thinking he's some kind of freedom whiner/professional sack of crap that should go play "shoot the cracker" in the park even though he's 6 foot tall or some shit.
it looked like to me he was pointing the bee bee gun at the evil crackers/joggers after they went by. another self loathing, white jogger rapist-in-training. i'm guessing the fascist henchmen were pissed when they got the call of some negroid teen/young man pointing a gun at joggers or whatever "well-to-do white lady"(nice version) description came in. "a black guy is pointing a gun at people when they jog by!!!! I'm too dumb to recognize the tiny hole at the end of the gun or the fact that the whole thing was plastic, just like i can't identify the make nor model or maybe even the goddamn color of the getaway car that robbed my house!!!".
like i said: a tragedy of stupidity.