Steve Loomis is trash.
After a Cleveland, Ohio, police officer shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice for the unconscionable crime of playing with a toy gun in a park, Loomis blamed Rice, saying, βTamir Rice is in the wrong...Heβs menacing. Heβs 5-feet-7, 191 pounds. He wasnβt that little kid youβre seeing in pictures. Heβs a 12-year-old in an adult body,β according to Politico.
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As president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmenβs Association, Loomis issued a statement after Riceβs family received a settlement in a wrongful death suit, saying he hoped Riceβs family used the $6 million to educate children about firearms. And when Timothy Loehmann, the officer who shot Rice, was fired and his partner suspended, Loomis said that his police union βwouldnβt stand for it,β insisting the two officers βdidnβt do anything wrong.β
The carbohydrate-consuming top cop even called Cleveland Browns player Andrew Hawkins βpatheticβ for wearing a βJustice for Tamir Riceβ T-shirt, according to Cleveland.com. The former union chief also used his position to stop Cleveland officers from carrying the flag at any football game where players knelt during the national anthem.
βItβs just ignorant for someone to do that,β Loomis said after Browns players knelt during a preseason game. βIt just defies logic to me. The fact that management was aware of what they planned on doing, thatβs as offensive as it can get.β
Loomis, an official MAGA cop, came under fire for wearing his police uniform to a Donald Trump rally and frequently appeared on Fox News whenever Milwaukee Sheriff David Clark couldnβt appear to bash the Black Lives Matter movement. He was finally ousted from his position atop the police officersβ union by Clevelandβs Black Shield, a group of black cops that was tired of his nonstop, anti-black rhetoric.
And now that Steve Loomis has apparently eaten all the Infinity Doughnuts, Cleveland.com is reporting that Krispy Kreme Thanos is getting a new role at the Cleveland Police Department on Monday as one of three detectives moving into the homicide unit. Thatβs right. The Trump-supporting, First Amendment-hating, anti-protest police officer who believes there isnβt βanything wrongβ with shooting a 12-year-old but believes there is something wrong with asking for justice for bullet-riddled 12-year-olds will now be investigating homicides.
Thereβs something wrong with that.
Letβs recap: The Cleveland Police Department once hired a police officer who βcould not follow simple directions, could not communicate clear thoughts nor recollections,β and whose βhandgun performance was dismal.β That officer killed Tamir Rice. And now theyβve put the man whose job it was to protect those kinds of officers at any cost in the homicide unit.
But thatβs not why weβre here.
Iβm just here to remind you that the entire Cleveland Police Department, police unions in general, and Steve Loomis in particular, were, are and will always be unsorted, rancid, stomach-churning trash.
Thatβs all.
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