Four years ago, a white police officer shot and killed Cleveland, Ohio's 12-year-old Tamir Rice. And now, the officer responsible has been hired by another police department. 

As reported by the New York Post, Officer Timothy Loehmann has been hired as a part-time officer with the Bellaire Police Department, according to The Associated Press and the department's chief. The city of Bellaire is about 150 miles south of Cleveland. 

Police Chief Richard Flanagan defends his decision to hire Loehmann, claiming the officer was never charged for the preteen's death and "deserves a second chance."

In November 2014, Loehmann and his partner, Frank Garmback, responded to a 911 call describing Tamir as an adult with a gun, as a report from NBC recapped. The caller mentioned the gun was possibly fake (it was), but officers failed to take that information into account. Tamir was in the park playing with his toy pellet gun when both officers drove up and immediately opened fire on the 12-year-old. 

Neither of the officers were charged with his death, but Loehmann was fired from the Cleveland Police Department. "The death of Tamir Rice was an absolute tragedy," Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty said after a grand jury decided not to indict the officers. "But it was not, by the law that binds us, a crime."

Attorney Subodh Chandra, speaking on behalf of the Rice family, told local news outlet WOIO that Samaria Rice, Tamir's mother, "believes that Timothy Loehmann does not belong on any police force, anywhere, period."

"Someone with his record should not be subjected upon the citizenry," Chandra said. "But she does hope that this means that he will not ever return to Cleveland." 

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