 The woman later landed a part-time position for the police department in the southeast Ohio village of Bel Air in October of 2018, but withdrew his application days later after Tamir's mother, Samaria, and others criticized the hiring. In July 2022, he was sworn in as a lone police officer in Tioga, a community of about 600 in rural north-central Pennsylvania, about 300 miles from Cleveland, but left without having worked a single shift amid backlash to media coverage over his hiring.