City officials and the Cleveland Police Department announced discipline Tuesday for two officers involved in the 2014 shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. 
 
 Officer Timothy Loehmann will be fired immediately and Officer Frank Garmback will serve a 10-day suspension. 
 
 Tamir was shot and killed by Loehmann outside the Cudell Recreation Center on Nov. 22, 2014. According to a report by the Cleveland Police Department’s Internal Affairs Unit, Loehmann shooting Tamir was considered “reasonable and within guidelines,” and that Loehmann was in fear for his and Garmback’s lives. The report states that Tamir Rice “walked toward the path of the zone car and, as the zone car came to a stop in front of him, raised his shirt with one hand and began drawing the gun from his pants with the other.” 
 
 Loehmann was on probation at the time of the fatal shooting, and was fired Tuesday as a result of lying on his application to become a Cleveland police officer. 
 
 His termination letter, dated May 30, 2017, states that Loehmann didn't tell Cleveland police that while he was in Independence, that department determined he "failed to secure firearm," was "insubordinate and untruthful to a superior officer,” and that Loehmann was "emotional," "immature," and possessed an "inability to emotionally function." 
 
 Chief Calvin Williams said Tuesday that the department has since changed how it hires police officers. 
 
 “The process now is to make sure that we actually view and read through any personnel file for any former or current law enforcement officer or corrections officer or people in those fields, but we also try to get the employment history of all applicants, whether they’re police officers or former police officers or not, just to make sure we know everything that’s in the background of the candidate for the division of police,” said Williams. 
 
 He said This incident wasn’t the only reason for a change but it was definitely a catalyst to make the process go faster. 
 
 Garmback was driving the police car the day Tamir was fatally shot. He was also Loehmann's training officer. He was suspended for 10 days without pay, starting Wednesday. 
 
 According to a disciplinary letter dated, May 30, 2017, Garmback was disciplined because he should have stopped the car when it reached Cudell Park, that he should not have driven up so close to Tamir, and that he did not alert dispatch when they arrived at the park. 
 
 The letter states: “No one knew where you were or what you were doing, and you did not know where anyone else was or what they were doing, until after 
 
 the shooting occurred.” 
 
 Cleveland 19 asked Williams to respond to critics who may say the punishment doesn’t fit what happened. 
 
 “Well, there's a 12-year-old kid dead, so, I mean, people on both sides are going to say it wasn't enough it was too much we have to go through our process we have to be fair and objective to everybody involved in the process and we have to make sure that people understand we will continue to be fair and objective,” said Williams. 
 
 "Hopefully we won't have any more incidents like this" says Chief Williams — Dani Carlson (@DaniCarlsonTV) May 30, 2017 
 
 Ofc Loehman disciplinary hearing in May 2017. McGrath says after reviewing Loehman will be terminated from CDP @cleveland19news — Dani Carlson (@DaniCarlsonTV) May 30, 2017 
 
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 Copyright 2017 WOIO. All rights reserved. ||||| CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Timothy Loehmann, the rookie police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, was fired Tuesday. 
 
 His partner, Frank Garmback, who pulled his cruiser within feet of the young boy, was suspended for 10 days without pay. 
 
 Loehmann was fired not for shooting Tamir, but for lying on his application with the Cleveland police department. He was also in his probationary period as a Cleveland officer giving the department more flexibility in letting him go, Cleveland Public Safety Director Michael McGrath said. 
 
 Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association president Steve Loomis said he will address the disciplinary measures at a 3 p.m. news conference. 
 
 Loehmann was a Cleveland police officer for less than eight months before the November 2014. He shot Tamir in less than three seconds after arriving at Cudell Recreation Center. 
 
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 The announcement effectively closes the door on a more than two-year investigation into what is widely considered one of the most high-profile police-involved shootings in Cleveland's history. 
 
 Tamir's death amid a series of other controversial, high-profile police-involved shootings across the country and sparked dozens of protests in Cleveland. The public outrage over the shooting heightened after grand jury declined to indict either officer. 
 
 A disciplinary letter released in January specifically says that Loehmann lied about how his short stint at the Independence Police Department ended. 
 
 Loehmann was allowed to resign from the Independence department after six months following a series of incidents where supervisors determined he was unfit to be a police officer. 
 
 The disciplinary letter cites a letter in Loehmann's personnel file from Independence that says he was emotionally immature and had "an inability to emotionally function." The letter also cites an emotional breakdown Loehmann had on the gun range in Independence. 
 
 Cleveland officials said in the letter that Loehmann was supposed to disclose that information. He was also supposed to say in his application that he failed a 2009 written exam when applying to work as an officer in Maple Heights. Loehmann never mentioned the Maple Heights test. 
 
 Garmback's disciplinary letter said he used improper tactics when driving to the rec center, which put Loehmann in danger. 
 
 Two others have been disciplined in the case: the 911 call taker, Constance Hollinger, and officer William Cunningham, who was working was working off-duty at the rec center without permission. He received a two-day suspension without pay. 
 
 Hollinger was suspended eight days without pay for failing to relay critical information to a dispatcher, Beth Mandl, who sent Garmback and Loehmann to the rec center. 
 
 Hollinger failed to tell Mandl that the 911 caller told her that Tamir was "probably a child" and that that the airsoft pellet gun he had was "probably fake." Mandl told Garmback and Loehmann to investigate a report of a "guy with a gun" scaring people outside the center. 
 
 Then-Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty said Hollinger's omission was a crucial mistake that directly impacted how the officers handled the call. McGinty said the shooting might have been avoided if the information was properly relayed to the officers. 
 
 The city paid a $6 million settlement to Tamir's family, which is likely the largest settlement the city has paid in a police-shooting case. 
 
 A review committee comprised of city officials that took the place of a normal internal affairs investigation found that neither officer violated any police policies. 
 
 The panel, called the Critical Incident Response Committee, concluded that neither Garmback, nor Loehmann violated any police policies at the time of the incident. 
 
 They concluded that Garmback took a path towards Tamir that other officers regularly used, that he wasn't driving too fast and that he tried to stop sooner than he did, but skidded on the wet grass. 
 
 That put Loehmann in a position where he got out of the cruiser and was directly in line with Tamir. Dispatcher Constance Hollinger had told the officers that someone had a gun at the park, but failed to tell them the initial 911 caller said that it was "probably a juvenile" and that the gun was "probably fake." 
 
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– More than two years after fatally shooting a 12-year-old boy holding a toy gun, Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann has been fired, Cleveland.com reports. According to WKYC, Loehmann wasn't fired for Tamir Rice's death but rather because the investigation into it led officials to discover he wasn't forthright on his application to join the police department. Loehmann, who'd been with the Cleveland police department for less than eight months when Tamir was shot, was allowed to resign from his previous department after six months when supervisors determined he had "an inability to emotionally function." Loehmann had an emotional breakdown at the gun range and had also failed a test to join another department years earlier. He didn't disclose any of that on his application in Cleveland. Loehmann's partner, Frank Garmback, was suspended for 10 days without pay for driving in a manner that put Loehmann at risk during the 2014 incident. Neither officer was charged in connection with Tamir's death. Constance Hollinger, a 911 operator, was suspended for eight days without pay for relaying incomplete information to police. She mentioned a "guy with a gun" at a recreation center without the added details that it was "probably a child" and the gun was "probably fake." Loehmann shot Tamir within three seconds of arriving at the scene. Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson says the disciplinary process was "exhaustive." Cleveland 19 quotes the city's police chief as adding Tuesday: "Hopefully we won't have any more incidents like this."