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I'm shocked, I tell you!! SHOCKED!!!
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/officer-tamir-rice-beating-case
he ongoing criminal investigation into the death of Tamir Rice has focused mostly on Timothy Loehmann, the Cleveland police officer who shot and killed the 12-year-old in a park last November. Last month, a county official familiar with the case told Mother Jones that Frank Garmback, the officer who drove the police car to within a few feet of Rice moments before Loehmann stepped out and opened fire, was not under criminal investigation by the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department, which turned over its investigation to county prosecutor on Wednesday.
As Mother Jones and others have reported, prior records showed that Loehmann "could not follow simple directions" and that "his handgun performance was dismal." Garmback's past record has received far less attention, even though he was involved in a use-of-force lawsuit that was settled not long before Rice's death.
In 2012, Garmback was named in a civil rights lawsuit for allegedly using excessive force against a black woman named Tamela Eaton. Eaton, who was 39 at the time, had called Cleveland police in August 2010 to ask for help towing a car that was parked in front of her driveway. Garmback and another officer, Tim Guerra, were searching for a murder suspect nearby. When they tried to arrest a man walking down the street, Eaton heard the commotion and came out of her home, believing the officers were responding to her call. Eaton's lawsuit asserted that Garmback initially argued with her, then rushed toward her "and placed her in a chokehold, tackled her to the ground, twisted her wrist and began hitting her body. Officer Guerra rushed over and proceeded to punch Tamela Eaton in the face multiple times."
Oktober
(1,488 posts)ColesCountyDem
(6,943 posts)lostnfound
(16,203 posts)http://www.nbcnews.com/id/56834534/ns/msnbc-rachel_maddow_show/t/rachel-maddow-show-thursday-january-th/#.VXrYRnA8KK0
The city of Cleveland ultimately paid $100,000 to that woman to settle
that case for that officer beating her up. But they didn`t fire the
officer. They kept him on the force.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/56559673/ns/msnbc-rachel_maddow_show/t/rachel-maddow-show-thursday-december-th/#.VXrXF3A8KK0
At that point, the original woman, the woman who had called the tow
truck about the car in her driveway and then had gone to bed, she heard
this commotion outside her house, she went outside, and she believed the
officers were there responding to her complaint about the car blocking her
driveway. That woman thought the police officers were arresting this guy
on the sidewalk because she`d called the police about somebody blocking her
driveway. She did not want this man arrested for her complaint about her
driveway.
That woman, the original woman, then argued with the police officers
about this arrest. According to the lawsuit later filed, the officer then
rushed the woman, placed her in a chokehold, tackled her to the ground,
twisted her wrists, and began hitting her body. The officer`s partner then
rushed over and proceed to punch Tamela Eaton in the face multiple times.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)This Garmback needs to do jail time. The guy that hired him should also be evaluated.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)The biggest thing that needs to happen in law enforcement is getting rid of that thin blue line.
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)... and everyone knows about him and doesn't nothing about them
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Maybe even the same article, it was less than 4 years ago.