Cleveland Dispatcher Disciplined Over Tamir Rice Shooting

A 911 dispatcher who took a call that led to a Cleveland police officer's fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy, who was playing with a pellet gun, outside a recreation center has been suspended for eight days.

A 911 dispatcher who took a call that led to a Cleveland police officer's fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy, who was playing with a pellet gun, outside a recreation center has been suspended for eight days.

Police Chief Calvin Williams found in a disciplinary letter dated March 10 that Constance Hollinger violated protocol the day of the shooting of Tamir Rice.

The city's internal disciplinary charges accused Hollinger of failing to tell the dispatcher who sent the officers to the rec center that the man who called 911 about "a guy" pointing a gun at people also said it could be a juvenile and the gun might be a "fake."

That omission was cited by former Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty as a crucial mistake that impacted how officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback responded. Loehmann shot and killed Tamir less than two seconds after they arrived, the Associated Press reports.

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