Officer who fatally shot Tamir Rice is refused request to return to work

The Ohio Supreme Court has rejected an appeal seeking to allow Timothy Loehmann, the police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in November 2014, to return to work.

The state’s highest court rejected the appeal from the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association that sought to overturn a lower court’s ruling to keep Mr Loehmann’s firing in place after the deadly incident that sent shockwaves across the US.

Tamir had been playing with a toy pellet gun in a Cleveland park on 22 November when Mr Loehmann drove up, responding to a 911 call reporting someone brandishing a gun in a park.