Controversial Steve Loomis takes back Cleveland police union presidency from Follmer in union election, Follmer is out in January, union election comes on heels of damning DOJ report against police, police shooting of Tamir Rice, By Cleveland Urban News.Com, Ohio's leader in Black digital news
Newly elected Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Steve Loomis, who will begin assuming his duties in January after ousting Jeff Follmer in an election by the union rank and file last month. By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, Cleveland Urban News.Com, and the Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and newspaper blog. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Kathy Wray Coleman is a community activist, educator and 21-year investigative journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years. ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) / ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio -Steve Loomis, the outspoken former president of the Cleveland's Police Patrolmen's Association who regularly quarreled with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson and at one time gave the mayor a 'D plus' for leadership skills, was elected last month to again lead the rank-and-file Cleveland polic...