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This makes the Cleveland PD’s legacy in the courts not one of accountability for hiring someone who shouldn’t have been hired and who subsequently killed a child in a public park, but that of an aggrieved employer with an employee who lied to them on a job application. It only took a couple of years for an Ohio police department to give a part-time job to Loehmann, and he would have continued to been gainfully employed as a “peace officer” had the public outcry—which was helped by the reach of social media—not forced the southeast Ohio village of Bellaire to terminate his job.
There are other, larger societal reasons of racism and the nature of the law enforcement apparatus in our country that led to Rice’s death. This is probably best illustrated in the us against them mentality voiced in the reactions to his death by other law enforcement officials. But the systemic, deeply rooted failures of our law enforcement and judicial systems were manifested in the Rice case. The police union has made it clear that they will fight for the job of virtually any officer, no matter how clear it seems that officer’s violations against citizens is. Cleveland chose to have that fight with them over a procedural issue and not the more glaring human malpractice one.
Loehmann and Garmback have never been charged or indicted for killing Rice, and the Cleveland Police Department, which can be largely blamed for the $6 million settlement paid out to Rice’s family, has learned nothing. In fact, they’ve made a statement about what offends them more. The killing of an unarmed 12-year-old in a park is not an issue for the Cleveland PD. At all. It’s just how things go, it seems. Lying on your resume, however …
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