Cleveland officer who shot Tamir Rice had 'dismal' handgun performance for Independence police

[AthenaAwakened]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice had issues with handling guns during his brief tenure with a suburban police department.

A Nov. 29, 2012 letter contained in Tim Loehmann's personnel file from the Independence Police Department says that during firearms qualification training he was "distracted" and "weepy."

"He could not follow simple directions, could not communicate clear thoughts nor recollections, and his handgun performance was dismal," according to the letter written by Deputy Chief Jim Polak of the Independence police.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/cleveland_police_officer_who_s.html

Hmm Hmm
Ya don't say.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Pillow said the Independence human resource department told them Loehmann had no disciplinary actions taken against him. Loehmann officially resigned from Independence but officials there had been prepared to release him from duty.

I'll go out on a limb and say they let this happen to avoid a potential lawsuit. Let the guy resign with a clean record and he's someone elses problem. Unfortunately, that someone else was a twelve year old.

Follow up story

 

[ksen]

I hope the family gets a huge settlement out of this. Not that it will make up for the loss of Tamir but politicians will be more affected by the loss of dollars than they will be by the loss of another black youth.

 

[RavenSky]

This seems to be a pattern, too. In the case Derec brought up of 17-year-old Christopher Roupe who was shot and killed by a police officer because he was holding a Wii controller police said was a pistol:

Now, 11 Alive, the NBC affiliate in Georgia, reports that Gatny, who has been employed with Euharlee police for less than a year, had been fired from her last job:

Gatny worked at the Acworth Police Department for 10 years prior to that and personnel records indicate that she was written up and suspended a number of times for various infractions.

In a timeline, her supervisors say she "refused to follow orders" on everything from filing paperwork to carrying her walkie talkie.

Other details:

Gatny was involved in four car accidents in two years.
In 2007, she reportedly "left her duty belt, along with her weapon..with a civilian employee" while she had her picture taken with someone.

In 2008, while confronting three suspects, she fired her service weapon. An internal investigation found the suspect was trying to remove his backpack. She was convinced he was going for a gun, but a fellow officer said he never thought the suspect was armed.

Internal Affairs concluded she should not be punished because the initial call for service said the suspects could have been armed.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/03/06/cop-who-fatally-shot-wii-controller-wiel

Someone with this background should never be allowed to be hired at a new police department. As with the Tamir Rice case, "someone else's problem" became Christopher Roupe's fatal problem.

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This seems to be a pattern, too. In the case Derec brought up of 17-year-old Christopher Roupe who was shot and killed by a police officer because he was holding a Wii controller police said was a pistol:

Now, 11 Alive, the NBC affiliate in Georgia, reports that Gatny, who has been employed with Euharlee police for less than a year, had been fired from her last job:

Gatny worked at the Acworth Police Department for 10 years prior to that and personnel records indicate that she was written up and suspended a number of times for various infractions.

In a timeline, her supervisors say she "refused to follow orders" on everything from filing paperwork to carrying her walkie talkie.

Other details:

Gatny was involved in four car accidents in two years.
In 2007, she reportedly "left her duty belt, along with her weapon..with a civilian employee" while she had her picture taken with someone.

In 2008, while confronting three suspects, she fired her service weapon. An internal investigation found the suspect was trying to remove his backpack. She was convinced he was going for a gun, but a fellow officer said he never thought the suspect was armed.

Internal Affairs concluded she should not be punished because the initial call for service said the suspects could have been armed.

http://reason.com/blog/2014/03/06/cop-who-fatally-shot-wii-controller-wiel

Someone with this background should never be allowed to be hired at a new police department. As with the Tamir Rice case, "someone else's problem" became Christopher Roupe's fatal problem.

 

[Axulus]

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice had issues with handling guns during his brief tenure with a suburban police department.

A Nov. 29, 2012 letter contained in Tim Loehmann's personnel file from the Independence Police Department says that during firearms qualification training he was "distracted" and "weepy."

"He could not follow simple directions, could not communicate clear thoughts nor recollections, and his handgun performance was dismal," according to the letter written by Deputy Chief Jim Polak of the Independence police.

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/cleveland_police_officer_who_s.html

Hmm Hmm
Ya don't say.

And why would they let a "dismal" performer have a gun?

 

[prideandfall]

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/cleveland_police_officer_who_s.html

Hmm Hmm
Ya don't say.

And why would they let a "dismal" performer have a gun?

why would they not?

the US is (collectively and in aggregate, and especially when it comes to things like police) a gun obsessed lunatic culture that thinks mobile hand-held death machines are something that every person has an inherent right to carry around and point at people.
you can't have a 'gun rights' culture without having a large number of people carrying around guns who can not reasonably or responsibly use them, that is simply the nature of reality.