West Virginia police chief resigns after hiring officer who killed Tamir Rice

CNN — A West Virginia police chief has resigned after hiring the former Cleveland, Ohio, police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014.

D.S. Teubert resigned as chief of the White Sulphur Springs Police Department after hiring Timothy Loehmann, Mayor Kathy Glover said. The death of Rice, a 12-year-old Black child, at the hands of a White police officer helped fuel the Black Lives Matter movement.

“Chief of police Teubert voluntarily resigned his position as chief of police and voluntarily demoted himself to patrolman,” Glover announced at a City Council meeting Monday.

“Somebody failed us,” an attendee told the White Sulphur Springs City Council at the open meeting.

“Although I was not aware of the situation regarding the hiring, I still accept accountability as a leader of the city and this should not have happened,” Glover said.