Civil Rights & Constitutional Law
Subodh Chandra condemns decision by Tioga, PA officials to hire Timothy Loehmann—the ex-cop who...
July 6, 2022
Friday, June 28, 2024
Subodh Chandra, who co-represented the estate and family of Tamir Rice, released a statement in response to news that White Sulphur Spring, WV Chief of Police D.S. Teubert hired Tamir's killer, Timothy Loehmann, as a police officer.
Public outcry previously forced Loehmann out of policing in 2022 in Tioga Borough, PA and from Belleair, OH in 2018.
In November 2014, Loemann, since fired from the Cleveland Division of Police, killed 12-year-old Tamir.
Had Loehmann not killed him, Tamir would have been 22 years old this week.
Chandra's statement is as follows:
White Sulphur Springs's police chief and its public officials evidently don’t care that (1) the City of Independence, Ohio considered Timothy Loehmann mentally unfit for duty, (2) Cleveland fired him because he lied on his application (a firing affirmed on appeals), (3) he rushed upon and slew a child, and (4) in the ensuing investigation he lied about calling out warnings to Tamir when his fellow officer said the windows were up that fateful winter's day.
While any normal person (and certainly any child) would grasp that Loehmann should never be entrusted with a badge and gun, some people love lying, child-killing cops so much that they are determined to foist him on the rest of us.
Every time Loehmann resurfaces in his game of bad-cop whack-a-mole, he torments the family of Tamir Rice. Why can't he just go away and live the rest of his life—life he deprived Tamir of—in humility? Why does he insist on being a cop? It seems pathological at this point.
And what sort of crazy public officials don't care that they must now disclose that he's a known liar to defendants in every criminal case he's involved in? Loehmann is a Brady/Giglio cop because of his lies on his police application and during the Tamir Rice investigation, and because Independence found him unfit. Timothy Loehmann should be radioactive to any sensible member of law enforcement community.
Officials who think its okay to hire him as a cop are betraying their citizens' trust. As a former federal prosecutor, I'm disgusted by the lack of integrity.
Let’s hope White Sulphur Springs residents have the good sense to condemn the poor judgment of their morally bankrupt police chief.
It's also deeply troubling that White Sulphur Springs police are retaliating against those (including journalists) who ask questions about Loehmann by quashing their First Amendment rights. But it tells us what we need to know about the indifference of public officials there to civil rights.
White Sulphur Spring officials should be sued over that and the city bankrupted.
UPDATE (July 1, 2024): Media outlets are reporting that Loemann has resigned from White Sulphur Springs.
Subodh Chandra was one of the attorneys who represented the estate and family of Tamir Rice in their civil suit against the officers and City of Cleveland, and to assist them in pursuing criminal justice.
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