Timothy Loehmann, former Police Officer that killed Tamir Rice may be reinstated
CLEVELAND – The mom of Tamir Rice is asking the Ohio Supreme Court docket to forestall former Cleveland Division of Police officer Timothy Loehmann from turning into a cop once more.
Loehmann shot and killed the 12-year-old on Nov. 22, 2014 outdoors of Cudell Recreation Middle on the town’s west facet after an individual referred to as 911 reporting seeing an individual with a gun.
The caller mentioned the person was, “most likely a juvenile” and the gun was, “most likely pretend.” That data was not handed alongside to the officers, in response to the investigation. Police mentioned Loehmann opened hearth when he mentioned the boy reached in the direction of his waistband. The gun turned out to be an airsoft pistol.
Loehmann was fired from the police drive in 2017 for mendacity on his utility, not Rice’s demise. No legal costs had been filed.
“Officer Loehmann shot 12‑year-old Tamir with out ready even a second to course of the scenario or contemplate the devastating penalties of his actions,” mentioned Subodh Chandra, the Rice household lawyer. “His sense of entitlement after not simply killing a baby however mendacity to develop into a police officer shouldn’t be rewarded. He was, and stays, unfit to function a police officer, in Cleveland or wherever else.”
An arbitrator and a Cuyahoga County choose upheld his firing. The Eighth District Court docket of Appeals refused to listen to arguments within the case and final month, his lawyer appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court docket.
“Timothy Loehmann can’t be trusted. I hope that the Supreme Court docket doesn’t give him an opportunity to get again his job. The truth that the Cleveland police union continues to be making an attempt to get him his job regardless of him killing my little one and mendacity on his utility to develop into a police officer exhibits you simply how immoral that group’s management is,” mentioned Samaria Rice, the boy’s mom.
The Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Affiliation has continued to foyer on Loehmann’s behalf.
“They’re making an attempt to say that we didn’t file this in a well timed method, and we’re saying, ‘Sure we did’ and we would like the enchantment and its deserves to be heard,” mentioned Jeff Follmer, president of the Cleveland police union, “The one factor they discovered that he did flawed was lied on his utility, which we’re disputing that he didn’t lie on his utility… Every thing else was justified.”
