Report: Officer who killed Tamir Rice hired by rural Ohio police department [View all]

[Cal Carpenter]

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Source: Cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A small town in southern Ohio hired Timothy Loehmann, the police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, to serve as a part-time officer on its police department.

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Bellaire Police Chief Richard "Dick" Flanagan told The Intelligencer: " (Loehmann) was cleared of any and all wrongdoing. He was never charged. It's over and done with."

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A Cuyahoga County grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against Loehmann in Tamir's death, but the city of Cleveland fired him in May 2017, not for the shooting, but for lying on his application when he applied for his job.

One of the more glaring omissions was that Loehmann did not disclose that he was dismissed from the Independence Police Department after they determined he was unfit to serve on its department. His personnel file from that job noted that Loehmann broke down and cried on the shooting range.

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https://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/10/report_officer_who_killed_tami.html

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