Community outrage forces resignation of cop who killed Tamir Rice
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Timothy Loehmann, the cop who killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland in 2014, was sworn in as Tioga, Pennsylvania’s lone police officer July 5. On July 6, protesters demonstrated outside the north Pennsylvania Tioga Borough office. The firestorm of outrage from borough residents and others force

Samaria Rice, Tamir’s mother, said: “He [Loehmann] shouldn’t be a police officer anywhere in the United States.” The family’s attorney Subodh Chandra stated: “While it’s great that Loehmann will not be inflicting himself with a badge and a gun upon Tioga, borough officials need to be held accountable for their appallingly poor judgment and ineptitude. . . . This game of whack-a-mole with Loehmann shamelessly resurfacing as a cop elsewhere must end.”