Steve Loomis is trash.
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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, โTamir Rice is in the wrong...Heโs menacing. Heโs 5-feet-7, 191 pounds. He wasnโt that little kid youโre seeing in pictures. Heโs a 12-year-old in an adult body,โ according to Politico.
As president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmenโs Association, Loomis issued a statement after Riceโs family received a settlement in a wrongful death suit, saying he hoped Riceโs 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 โwouldnโt stand for it,โ insisting the two officers โdidnโt do anything wrong.โ
The carbohydrate-consuming top cop even called Cleveland Browns player Andrew Hawkins โpatheticโ for wearing a โJustice for Tamir Riceโ 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.
โItโs just ignorant for someone to do that,โ Loomis said after Browns players knelt during a preseason game. โIt just defies logic to me. The fact that management was aware of what they planned on doing, thatโs as offensive as it can get.โ
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 couldnโt appear to bash the Black Lives Matter movement. He was finally ousted from his position atop the police officersโ union by Clevelandโs 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. Thatโs right. The Trump-supporting, First Amendment-hating, anti-protest police officer who believes there isnโt โanything wrongโ 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.
Thereโs something wrong with that.
Letโs recap: The Cleveland Police Department once hired a police officer who โcould not follow simple directions, could not communicate clear thoughts nor recollections,โ and whose โhandgun performance was dismal.โ That officer killed Tamir Rice. And now theyโve put the man whose job it was to protect those kinds of officers at any cost in the homicide unit.
But thatโs not why weโre here.
Iโm 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.
Thatโs all.
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