Cleveland announces administrative charges to be filed in Tamir Rice case

The City of Cleveland held a press conference at 5:30 p.m. Friday to announce that internal administrative disciplinary charges will be filed regarding three police officers involved in the death of Tamir Rice.

Mayor Frank Jackson, safety director Michael McGrath, police chief Calvin Williams, and deputy police chief Wayne Drummond talked about the status of the review and investigation of Officers Timothy Loehmann, Frank Garmback, and William Cunningham II at Cleveland City Hall. 

Rice, 12, was shot and killed by police officers outside the Cudell Recreation Center on Nov. 22, 2014.

Loehmann and Garmback are the two police officers who responded to the call of someone holding a gun and waving it around outside the Cudell Recreation Center. As the police cruiser pulled up outside the center by the gazebo, Loehmann got out of the cruiser immediately and shot Rice. It turned out that 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.

According to the city's listing of the charges, Garmback, who's facing two charges, did not employ proper tactics when he operated the zone car right up to the gazebo outside the Cudell Recreation Center and failed to tell the police dispatcher that he and Loehmann had arrived at Cudell.

Loehmann's six charges are that he he provided false information on his CPD employment application; did not disclose on his application that he was facing discharge from the Independence Police Department when he resigned there; did not disclose the circumstances of his resignation;

failed to disclose a failed exam at the Maple Heights Police Department in 2009; put false and conflicting information on how many places he had applied for a job in law enforcement; and in November 2016, the CPD discovered a May 13, 2013 failure to provide a truthful statement.

Cunningham's two charges are that he was working secondary employment at Cudell without permission and, on Nov. 22, 2014, in connection with the use of deadly force investigation, he completed, signed and submitted an untruthful Form-1 report.