CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Almost eight years after the tragic police taking pictures loss of life of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the Cleveland Police officer who pulled the set off has a brand new job, with a distinct police power.

The information first surfaced on Wednesday on social media, and 19 Information has confirmed that Timothy Loehmann has taken a brand new oath to guard, serve and police in Tioga Borough, a small city 300 miles away in rural Pennsylvania.

Samaria Rice, the mom of Tamir Rice, stated it’s “pathetic, it’s pitiful, it’s a disgrace,” after studying about Loehman’s new job from 19 Information.

“The system is damaged, as a result of police reform is definitely not working. You’d rent somebody realizing he has murdered a 12-year-old baby. How dare you. How dare you do it,” Rice said.

Rice questions how anybody might give Loehman a badge and gun once more after a household skilled dominated her son’s hand had been in his pockets, he wasn’t reaching for something, and he was enjoying with an airsoft gun at Cuddell Park that day, the orange tip to indicate it’s a toy had been eliminated.

Loehmann and the opposite officer had been by no means charged with any prison wrongdoing in Tamir’s loss of life.

However, he was fired years later from the Cleveland Police Division for offering false data on his job software.

The Metropolis of Cleveland settled a lawsuit with the Rice Household for $6 million.

“They need to undoubtedly rethink and never rent him. He’s a foul apple for anyone’s police division throughout the nation,” Samaria Rice advised 19 Information.

Rice’s outrage and disgust was shared by one individual after one other in Loehmann’s new neighborhood after a social media submit of him taking the oath of workplace was shared by Tioga Borough’s President of Metropolis Council Steve Hazlett.

In a single social media submit a girl wrote, “If this is similar man who killed Tamir Rice, he doesn’t belong right here. He’s a hazard to the neighborhood. Who else’s baby has to die earlier than he’s locked up.”

David Wilcox, Tioga Borough’s Mayor responded to considerations on social media pages saying: “This has nothing to do with me. Council hires, fires and background checks. I actually wasn’t even allowed to take his resume with me the day they interviewed him.”

One girl who spoke out in his protection and included an indignant face emoji stated, “See individuals simply don’t have respect for the police.”

Loehman was employed in 2018 by Bellaire, Ohio’s police division, however withdrew his software after Samaria Rice and others vocalized their disgust.

For Tamir Rice’s mom, the timing of Loehmann’s new job couldn’t be worse.

She plans to unveil a $100,000 memorial in her son’s reminiscence and honor on Jan. 16 in the identical spot the place he misplaced his life.

Rice stated it’s a part of her settlement with the Metropolis of Cleveland, “I didn’t want to listen to no information like this. I’m planning my son’s memorial ceremony over at Cuddell Recreation Middle the place Timothy Loehmann took his life. The memorial will probably be positioned precisely the place the gazebo was, the place my daughter was handcuffed and tackled and compelled to observe her brother die.”

Steve Hazlett, Tioga Borough’s President of Council stated Loehmann was employed beneath his similar identify, although there have been questions on that on social media.

He was employed as a full-time police officer and can have a six-month probation interval.

Hazlett claimed that although Loehmann took his oath of workplace, the vetting course of for his job continues.

He additionally stated his telephone has been ringing off the hook following his social media submit in regards to the new rent.

Samaria Rice stated, “The system is damaged. The police invoice of rights must be completed away with as a result of it’s not working for them. It’s not working for us no manner, nevertheless it’s not working for them as a result of they break their very own guidelines and protocols. As People, we live in worry of our lives, particularly for those who’re Black or Brown.”

Rice additionally needs the general public to know memorial to her son is deliberate for lower than two weeks any more July 16.

She stated will probably be highly effective and can ceaselessly stand as a reminder that her younger Black son was unarmed and killed by police, “I’d encourage people to go to the Tamir Rice Basis’s Fb web page to join tickets.”

The Chandra Legislation Agency, LLC. that represented the Rice Household after Tamir’s loss of life additionally issued a press release condemning the choice by Tioga, PA officers to rent Timothy Loehmann:

“Tioga officers apparently don’t care whether or not a police officer was thought of mentally unfit for one division, lied on his software to a different, rushed upon and slew a toddler, after which lied about calling out warnings to Tamir — when his window was rolled up on a winter’s day. Loehmann — who ought to by no means once more be entrusted with a badge and gun – is shamelessly decided to inflict himself upon different communities. He’s additionally decided to harm the household of Tamir Rice together with his antics when he ought to simply go stay the remainder of his life — life he disadvantaged Tamir of – in disgrace. Let’s hope Tioga residents have the great sense to query the poor judgment of their misguided and detached officers.

Each time Timothy Loemann testifies in a prison case, Tioga officers and prosecutors will probably be required to supply defendants and protection counsel on Loehmann’s report of mendacity, which is called Brady proof. He’s broken items and no neighborhood ought to ever need him chargeable for implementing their legal guidelines. Officers who do are betraying the belief of their residents.”

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