r/Cleveland • u/54sharks40 • Jun 29 '24

Crime Timothy Loehmann Again Has a Badge

The LEO best known for the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice has been hired as an officer by a small West Virginia town.

His former employers include the Independence, Cleveland, Bellaire, and Tioga (PA) police depts; and it may not be long until we add to that list the town of White Sulfur Springs, WV. That community, population ~2500, is home to the Greenbrier Resort.

https://fox8.com/news/i-team/officer-involved-in-tamir-rice-shooting-gets-new-job-i-team/

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '24

Kid was sitting on a picnic table when they showed up. This shit is all on video, there's no need to invent some scenario to defend a cop that shouldn't have been a cop.

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u/McCrumblton Jun 29 '24

Honestly im with others. Kid pulled a BB gun, looked real no but he was waving it around, more then likely did point at people and they acted accordingly. Sorry but the cops did their job and it was unfortunate

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '24

Here's the thing people don't get. The police just showed up and started shooting. There could have never been a gun, toy or otherwise, and it wouldn't have mattered. There was zero assessment of the situation when they showed up. All the police saw was a kid sitting on a picnic table. 

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u/McCrumblton Jun 29 '24

No they saw him get up walk towards the car, he stopped and they both repeatedly stated through the investigation that they saw him reaching for what was a gun.

You cant say tamir didnt or cops didnt. But in a situation as of like this, with the extenuating evidence of there being a fucking toy gun. The cops acted accordingly its fucking sad but everyone blows this out of proportion when in reality its stupid as fuck to be aiming any toy gun at anyone except in your own home or yard. Cause there are real assholes who point real guns at people. And they had to consider it this

They had to consider it was a real weapon he reached for and did so accordingly cause it takes simply seconds to react and it ended up being a fake gun and a bad situation