Tamir Rice

The city of Cleveland has fired one police officer and suspended a second involved in the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

Timothy Loehmann, the Cleveland police officer who fatally shot Rice in 2014, was fired today for inaccurate details on his job application and other administrative policy violations, not for the Rice shooting. The officer who was with Loehmann, Frank Garmback, will be suspended for 10 days because he violated tactical rules relating to how he drove to the scene that day, the city’s public safety director and the city’s police chief said.

None of the rules violations announced by Public Safety Director Michael McGrath and Williams directly related to the firing of Loehmann’s gun outside a recreation center on November 22, 2014. An Ohio grand jury declined to criminally charge the officers in 2015.

At a news conference this morning, Police Chief Williams said that in 2015 the police department began looking through employment history during the hiring process, which it did not do when it hired Loehmann.

“Hopefully we won’t have any more incidents like this,” Williams said.

Loehmann’s firing took effect Tuesday morning, and Garmback’s suspension begins Wednesday. The punishment stems from an internal investigation that resumed in earnest after the grand jury declined to charge the officers.

“After over two years of investigation by our agency, the county prosecutor’s office (and) the sheriff’s department, I think we’ve come to what we consider a fair conclusion to this process,” Williams said.