Members of the borough council did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The New York Times on Thursday. “We thank the community for stepping forward and letting their voices be heard.” They got their feelings out, and we listened to them and we’re going to react to it and that will be that,” the borough council president, Steve Hazlett, told The Associated Press. Loehmann was sworn in for the role on Tuesday as the borough’s lone police officer but had not yet started the job, his attorney said. Loehmann had previously applied for numerous jobs, including those outside of law enforcement. “It was not a healthy situation for him,” Mr. Loehmann decided to resign because he did not want to be part of “infighting” between the Tioga borough board and its mayor.
Wilcox said, emphasizing that it was the borough council’s responsibility to review applicants and hire and fire staff.īut Henry Hilow, a lawyer for Mr. “I was told that there was an extensive background check, numerous phone calls made and there were no negative marks on his record and that he would be a great candidate for this town,” Mr. He stood atop a pickup truck and told residents that he had “zero knowledge of the candidate that we just hired for our police department,” according to a video posted by The Wellsboro Gazette. Loehmann’s hiring, claiming he had no knowledge of Mr. It came after a public outcry in response to the Williamsport Sun-Gazette article that revealed his hiring.ĭavid Wilcox, the mayor of Tioga, appeared on Wednesday at a community protest against Mr.
Two days after Timothy Loehmann, the former Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014, was sworn in as a police officer for a rural Pennsylvania community, he left the position, the borough of Tioga announced on Thursday.
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