CLEVELAND — A 911 dispatcher who took a call that led to a white
police officer's fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy 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, who had been playing with a pellet gun.
Tamir was shot within seconds of a police
cruiser skidding to a stop just a few feet away from him in November
2014 outside the Cleveland rec center. 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."
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