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Tamir Rice Shooting Update: Dispatcher Who Summoned Police Resigns Ten Months The Fatal Shooting

EarHustle411 has not forgotten about this young man who was killed by the Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann. It seems now some months after the shooting, the employee who dispatched the officer to the location where Tamir Rice was has resigned from her position as a dispatcher with the Cleveland Police Department.   This case is still so very sad and the officer who took Tamir Rice’s life has still not been brought to justice (if that will ever occur).

Read more as reported by Essence:

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Ten months after the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the police dispatcher who summoned the responding officers has resigned from her position.

On the afternoon of Nov. 22, Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann fatally shot Rice, who was holding a toy gun in a public park. A man nearby had called police, telling a 911 operator that a boy was waving a “probably fake” gun around. Mandl dispatched officers to the scene, but failed to tell them that the gun was most likely a fake. Officers arrived on the scene and, within two seconds of exiting the squad car, Loehmann shot Rice, who died at a hospital the next day.

According to police records, Mandl, who had worked for the city for four years, has been absent without official from her post since the beginning of April, and turned in an official resignation letter on July 16. A police memo claims that Mandl’s resignation was unrelated to Rice’s death, but rather because her job was “stressful” and she had thinking about quitting.

In June, county investigators concluded a four-month-long probe into Rice’s death. No arrests have been made in the case, but earlier this summer, a Cleveland judge found probable cause to charge Officer Loehmann with murder, reckless homicide and involuntary manslaughter.

Source: Essence

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