The former Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 abruptly resigned from a tiny police department in rural Pennsylvania—less than a day after the news of his hiring broke. Timothy Loehmann was sworn in to the Tioga Borough Police Department at a council meeting on Tuesday evening, local officials confirmed to the Williamsport Sun-Gazette for a Wednesday report. Loehmann was set to serve as the force’s sole police officer in the township, which has a population of roughly 700. By Thursday morning, however, the Borough of Tioga had released a statement saying that Loehmann had “officially with drawn his application.” Rice’s family on Thursday slammed the decision to hire Loehmann, calling it a “game of whack-a-mole,” likely in reference to the former officer’s attempts to wheedle his way back into law enforcement, including an unsuccessful attempt in rural Ohio in 2018.
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