cleveland | The handling of dispatching came under fire after Tamir's death.
When a person calls 9-1-1, the call-taker relays the information
electronically to a dispatcher, who then relays the information to
police, according to a police spokeswoman.
Constance Hollinger took the initial 9-1-1 call from a man outside
the Cudell Recreation Center who said that someone was pointing a gun
that was "probably fake" at people.
The details of what Hollinger relayed to Mandl are not clear. At no
point were the officers told that the gun was "probably fake" or that
Tamir was a boy and not an adult.
Northeast Ohio Media Group has requested any communication between Hollinger and Mandl.
Tamir's shooting exposed what many have said are inadequate hiring
practices of Cleveland police. Timothy Loehmann, the officer who shot
the boy at close range less than two seconds after he jumped from a police car, was on his way to being fired at Independence Police Department when he resigned in 2012, according to his personnel file.
Cleveland police did not examine Loehmann's file before they hired him. They've since updated their policy to check all personnel files of potential recruits.
Loehmann unsuccessfully applied to several Northeast Ohio law
enforcement agencies before Cleveland hired him in 2014, including the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department. That agency is now leading the investigation
into the shooting, and will hand over its evidence to the Cuyahoga
County Prosecutor's Office, which will take the case to a grand jury.
Loehmann's partner, Frank Garmback, was sued in federal court in
an excessive force case that cost the city $100,000. Garmback and his
partner at the time were accused of beating up a 39-year-old woman on
Clifton Boulevard.
