However, the former Minneapolis affirmative action police officer hire, Mohamed Noor, has been found guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond.
Star Tribune (h/t Karen P) Noor, the first Somali Muslim ever hired by this police department, is the first Minnesota police officer in recent memory to be convicted of murder and manslaughter in connection with an on-duty shooting of a totally innocent woman who had called police for help. He faces between 10-15 years in prison for the third-degree murder charge and 3 1/2 to nearly 5 years for the manslaughter charge. (He’ll probably be out in 3 years, if not sooner)
A jury of two women and 10 men began deliberations Monday after hearing three weeks of testimony and announced the verdict Tuesday afternoon after about 11 hours of deliberation.
Noor, 33, was charged with second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the July 15, 2017 killing of Damond. While Damond was standing outside the police car and talking to Noor’s partner in the driver’s seat, Noor decided to fire his gun from the passenger seat through Harrity’s open driver’s side window, which killed Damond instantly.
The victim, a yoga instructor, had approached the cruiser after calling 911 twice to report a possible rape in the dark alley behind her home.
In court, prosecutor Amy Sweasy said Noor violated Minneapolis police training policies – and endangered the life of his partner and a teenage cyclist also present. She dismissed speculation that Damond contributed to her own death. ‘He pulled (the gun). He pointed, he aimed, and he killed her,’ Ms. Sweasy said. ‘This is no accident. This is intentional murder,’ she said.
Noor previously testified that he believed there was an imminent threat after he saw a cyclist stop near the police cruiser, heard a loud bang and saw Harrity’s ‘reaction to the person on the driver’s side raising her right arm.’ Noor added that when he reached from the cruiser’s passenger seat and shot Damond through the driver’s side window, it was because he thought his partner ‘would have been killed.’
He said that after Damond approached the cruiser, his partner screamed ‘Oh, Jesus!’ and began fumbling to unholster his gun. Then, Noor said he saw a blonde woman wearing a pink T-shirt raising her right arm at the driver’s window, identified her as a threat and fired.
The prosecutor, however, suggested that the officers should not have been surprised by a woman walking to their car, given that the 911 caller reporting the possible sexual assault was a woman.
Prosecutors argued that Noor acted unreasonably when he fired, and was too quick to assume that Damond was a threat. Noor and Harrity should have considered whether Damond was the 911 caller, the subject of Damond’s 911 call or a woman from a previous 911 call placed earlier in the night by a neighbor, prosecutors have said.
Noor, 33, is a Somali Muslim whose hiring two years before the shooting was celebrated by Minneapolis leaders as a sign of a diversifying police force in a city with a large population of Somali Muslim immigrants.
More about this case HERE
Since Justine was a native Australian, let’s see how Australian media are reporting on this:
Me says
UK news report …
The city of Minneapolis will pay 20 million US dollars to the family of an unarmed woman fatally shot by a police officer when she approached his squad car after calling 911 to report a possible crime.
Mayor Jacob Frey and City Council members detailed the settlement just three days after a jury convicted Mohamed Noor of murder and manslaughter in the 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond.
The settlement calls for Ms Damond’s family to donate two million dollars to a local foundation’s fund aimed at addressing gun violence.
BareNakedIslam says
Me, can you please post a link to that story?
BareNakedIslam says
Just posted.
RealFreedomFighter says
I’m sure he wishes he were back in his old country where he just might get away with this.
BareNakedIslam says
He’ll live better in an American jail than in the shithole he crawled out of.
Classy Infidel says
It’s the outcome I expected. He’ll do a few years of jail time and then be released.
His future employment prospects are limited. He doesn’t have a decent IQ.
He’ll never be hired for any type of law enforcement, public security, or supervisory work.
I figure he might end up working for a meatpacking business.
Mano says
I hope that muslim C@nt gets murdered in Jail.
Andrew says
Racist Cops again eh !!!!!
LJW says
They are in America to take over our land, inslave our citizens and topple our government to set up their own Sharia Law and Disorder. They do the same in every country they invade. Trouble is……enough people the world over are willingly submitting to the Muslims and their ideaology, swallowing Allah’s aka Satan’s lies hook line and sinker. It is the sign of the times, unfortunately.
LJW says
They are in America to take over our land, inslave our citizens and topple our government to set up their own Sharia Law and Disorder. They do the same in every country they invade. Trouble is……enough people the world over are willingly submitting to the Muslims and their ideaology, swallowing Allah’s aka Satan’s lies hook line and sinker. It is the sign of the times, unfortunately. End of days are looming on the horizon.
Az gal says
Hopefully he’ll get the full 15 years for the 3rd degree murder charge. Worthless Somalian. He deserves at least 20, followed by deportation.
Pray Hard says
Hopefully, he’ll be killed in prison.
Sheikh Anvakh says
Not a chance. He’s a Mooossliiimmm, the Nation of Satan followers infesting the prison system like a cancer, will see him alright. Normally a cop would get a hard time. He is protected by his Melanin Shield of Invulnerability while terrorist front CAIR and SPLC will launch endless lawfare suits for “Islamophobia” or not getting halal food or time to pray 468 times a day. Meanwhile the victim’s family will be hounded out. We can only hope that a white supremacist psychopath gets him first, doing the only decent act in his twisted life
gmcmi says
Yes! I pray he will see justice there!
Pray Hard says
Bastard!
Cezanne says
Been following this case for 2 years. Initially they wanted to sweep it under the rug. That coon had his mouth wired shut. Justice will be done if they put him in with general population. criminal justice is not tame.
Linda Rivera says
Bible, Romans 12:19
“VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY,” says the Lord.
Linda Rivera says
What kind of jurors are they that REFUSED to give defenseless Justine slaughtered by a Muslim KILLER COP, justice?
Who are these disgusting jurors?
The jurors sent out a powerful message that it’s OK for Muslims to slaughter defenseless non-Muslims.
Sheikh Anvakh says
This is the consequence of “Jury selection” where the defence gets to choose those who’ll give the defendant the least hard time. Why do you think only two women? What was the ethnic makeup of the jury, how many whites, Christians etc?
Ziggyblue says
Cant they set a period of incarceration without parole? Its horrendous to think he could ever get an early release.
This poor lady Justine & her family have always been on my mind.
I hope this bastard gets stabbed in prison & I hope the stupid woman whp fast tracked it tthrough the ranks gets her comeuppance too.
Everytime I think of the evil beast it makes my blood boil. Id happily shoot him in the face given the chance.
BareNakedIslam says
Ziggy, I think they only do no parole when it’s a life sentence, but I could be wrong.
Fear the Legion says
Not surprised. Not one bit.
Cleavis Nowell (@CleavisNowell) says
When paroled it should be given LSD, a baby pacifier taped to it’s muzzle and dumped on Justin Trudeau’s doorstep.
Leonie Z Pipe says
Should never put these thugs in possession of a gun. They’ll use it as a killing machine. I hope the other prisoners give this lowlife the justice he deserves, even if the official law doesn’t. Prisoners are not exactly enamored of muslimes, and live unto their own laws.
ozgaza says
The left wing media really are in the gutter here in Australia and elsewhere..they were busy posing the question that this is all about the rock ape killer cop being a Muslim and the victim being white…so the media and fake feminists/socialists are focusing that its really racist that the Muslim Cop was charged at all.There you have it!!! These scum race to defend Muslims straight away with no sympathy for an innocent victim.The Muslim killed her because…..He could!!!! These scum do the same protecting Islam as it wages war against Western Civilisation.
BareNakedIslam says
Oz, that is very sad to hear.
Linda Rivera says
Oz, That’s horrifying and profoundly evil. Our world has gone to hell.
Grace Joy says
I’m not surprised. They remind me of all the “feminists” in Sweden who defend Mus lims even after they r ape & k ill. These Leftists should go in very small groups to Morocco for a vacation some time this year.
https://barenakedislam.com/2018/01/24/disgusting-swedish-feminazis-are-virtually-unconcerned-about-the-soaring-sexual-assault-crisis-perpetuated-by-muslim-invaders-even-when-the-victim-is-their-own-daughter/
Sheikh Anvakh says
It’s exactly the same here in the once-UK. After all and any Muslim atrocity, out come the politicians, fake feminists, senior cops, the mayor’s, earning against”Islamophobia”, while anyone who complains or raises the issue is smeared by said officials and the compliant gutter press as “racist”, “phobic” or a bigot. Orwell’s dystopian future is here, war is peace, freedom is slavery, 1984 being used as an instruction manual instead of the warning it was designed to be. When the killings begin in earnest, the open jihad, we Brits have no second amendment to protect us. Indeed, we will be prosecuted and punished for defending ourselves. We’ve already made enquiries about going to Israel. I know it’s in the middle of a potential war zone, but at least we won’t be defenceless, worse, forced to be defenceless. Israel defends her people, everywhere else throws us to the wolves.
BareNakedIslam says
SA, you will probably be safer in Tel Aviv than in London.
Dick says
Another first for People of Colour in the US – Noor is the first police officer in Minnesota to be charged with murder.
Unfortunately its 3rd & not 2nd.
But at least he got charged and is currently in a police cell. Not many goats where he’s going. It didn’t turn out to be “if the glove don’t fit, you must acquit” farce like OJ’s.
Shit in your own nests once again. Show us what fucking animals you are. If they don’t like to US why don’t they go to Africa. Plenty of whites across Europe, South Africa, and Zimbabwe have had to pack up and go somewhere else because the Muslims are disgusting, violent savages. If they don’t like whites, go somewhere where there are no whites, there’s plenty of shitholes to choose from.
Pray Hard says
They’re not here to “like the US”. They’re here to conquer, murder, destroy and rule by sharia and the sword. And, they’re doing it.
Az gal says
They don’t want to live in their own shitholes. They want to shit in our clean countries.
Leonie Z Pipe says
And defile them until there are no clean spaces left on this Earth.
JEWHADI says
IF he survives incarceration, he SHOULD BE DEPORTED back to the shithole somalia!!
WAYNEY says
Not sure about the states but if here in Australia ,over a year in prison deportation is automatic . Some Kiwis are being deported from Australia just because of association with biker groups . If the Somali is also a Somali citizen he is gone ,but time will tell . Personally I have followed this event from the beginning and I think he shot her because he thought he could get away with this cold blooded killing . This conviction will result for the successful suing of the Minnesotan state for employing the loser in the first place . We have some Somalis here in Australia and they are proving to be a pain in the ass ,. Am I racist , No not at all dummies cannot use computers well . Even I have headaches with them .
BareNakedIslam says
Wayne, he’s probably a citizen and can’t be deported.
WAYNEY says
Depends if he is dual passported or still able to return to Somalia as one cannot drop ones original birth country , as I said in Aus he is gone after finishing his sentence , See if he survives his jail time first . Does not look like a survivor
Pray Hard says
If there was one cop in Minneapolis worth his badge, this vermin would have already met his end.
Az gal says
I second the motion!
tophtml says
Maybe, when he leaves, he can take Omar with him.