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Cleveland officers face administrative charges in Tamir Rice case

WKYC Staff
WKYC-TV, Cleveland

The City of Cleveland on Friday announced internal administrative disciplinary charges will be filed against three police officers involved in the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

Tamir Rice

Rice was shot and killed by police officers outside a city recreation center on Nov. 22, 2014.

Officers Timothy Loehmann, Frank Garmback and William Cunningham II all face administrative charges.

Loehmann and Garmback responded to the call of someone holding a gun and waving it around outside the recreation center. As the police cruiser arrived, Loehmann got out of the cruiser and shot Rice. Rice did not have a real gun but an airsoft pellet gun.

Cunningham has been identified by the city as a Cleveland police officer who was on secondary employment at the recreation center at the time of the shooting.

The city said Garmback, who faces two charges, did not employ proper tactics when he operated the zone car outside the recreation center and failed to tell the police dispatcher that he and Loehmann had arrived at the recreation center.

Loehmann's six charges stem from providing false information on his employment application and not disclosing details of his discharge from another agency among other employment-related issues. Cunningham's two charges are that he was working secondary employment at the center without permission and submitted an untruthful form during the course of the deadly force investigation.

Cunningham is scheduled for a pre-disciplinary hearing later this month.