Ideastream Public Media Activists continue to campaign for criminal or civil rights charges against Timothy Loehmann, the Cleveland officer who killed Tamir Rice. A march earlier this year ended at the federal courthouse in Cleveland, where demonstrators called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen a civil rights investigation into the killing.
The Cleveland police union’s years long pursuit to get Timothy Loehmann his job back has come to an end.
On Tuesday morning, the Ohio Supreme Court declined to hear the union’s appeal of a lower court decision in favor of the city. Arguments to overturn Loehmann’s firing on the grounds that he lied on his employment application were never considered in court.
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The mother of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Black boy who was fatally shot by cop in Cleveland more than six years ago, has requested that the Ohio Supreme Court refuse to let former officer Timothy Loehmann back on the force.
Apr 27, 2021
(Cleveland) - The Cleveland Police Patrolman s Association, which represents rank and file officers in the Cleveland Division of Police, is asking the Ohio Supreme Court to allow the union to continue its challenge of the firing of former officer Timothy Loehmann, who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
A state appeals court ruled in March that the union did not properly give paperwork regarding its case to City of Cleveland attorneys. The union says, however, that it did serve the city with its notice to appeal.
Loehmann was fired from the Division of Police, not for killing Rice, but for lying on his job application. His partner, Officer Frank Garmback, was suspended. Neither Loehmann or Garmback were charged with a crime in the shooting death of the boy outside the Cudell Recreation Center at Detroit Avenue and West Boulevard.