Following the murder conviction of Mohamed Noor, the Somali Muslim cop in Minneapolis who gunned down an innocent, unarmed woman, Justine Ruszczyk Damond, for no reason, new evidence has come out that Noor’s fellow cops tried to cover for him by turning off their body cams upon arrival on the scene after the shooting and telling him not to talk to anyone.
DC Clothesline (h/t Larry A) New details are emerging about the tragic shooting of Justine Damond, an Australian yoga teacher living in Minneapolis with her American fiancé, by Officer Mohamed Noor. On April 30, Noor was convicted for murder and manslaughter in Damond’s death. And now, evidence from the trial — in the form of body camera footage and 911 recordings — is being released.
On that fateful night, officer Noor was sitting in the passenger seat of his patrol car and opened fire through the driver’s side door hitting Damond at least once in the abdomen. Noor and his partner were responding to her 911 call about a possible sexual assault.
Conveniently, for Noor and his partner, it was revealed at the time that neither of them had activated their body cameras. The dashcam, we were told, was not recording any video footage either.
Now, however, with the release of this new evidence, we see that the entire department has a problem with turning off their body cameras, especially when talking to killer cops who gun down innocent women in their pajamas.
As the Star Tribune reports:
Prosecutor raised the specter of police secrecy at the trial, noting that several officers at the scene only spoke to investigators after they were subpoenaed to appear before a Grand Jury. They also scrutinized body camera use, and the video evidence showed repeated concern at the scene for Officer Noor and his right to not speak about the shooting, even while efforts continued to try and save Damond.
Damond called 911 to report what sounded like a sexual assault in the alley near her home. When Noor and the other officer arrived, she walked to their patrol car to tell them what was happening. Within in minutes of her talking to the officer who was in the driver’s seat, Noor reached across the driver and shot Damond in the abdomen, killing her.
Here is Justine’s 911 call moments before she was killed:
Since 2016, Minneapolis has required all officers to wear and activate body cameras “at all times when they could reasonably anticipate that they may become involved in a situation for which activation is appropriate.
But these officers conveniently managed to turn off both of their body cameras and the dashcam before entering the alleyway in response to Damond’s call about an alleged sexual assault taking place behind her home.
What’s more, nearly every officer on the scene whose body cameras were actually working, either turned it off or were caught helping Noor, advising him to stay quiet.
When other officers arrived at the scene where “shots were fired,” once they realized that Noor was the shooter of the pajama-clad woman, they immediately began coaching Noor and turning off their body cameras.
When Officer Jesse Lopez arrives on the scene, he tells Noor, “You all right, kiddo? Just keep to yourself. Keep your mouth shut until you have to say something.”
Then, even more disturbing is the fact that when Noor’s supervisor, Sgt. Shannon Barnette showed up and saw Justine Damond dying in the street, Barnette called Damond’s phone. “Hey Justine, this is Sgt. Barnette, Minneapolis police,” she said. “Say I know you called in the unknown trouble call of a woman screaming and I have a question for you, it’s pretty important.”
Prosecutors also brought up damning evidence against Barnette at the trial. According to KARE 11, Barnette admitted in testimony that she did not mean to record the below video. Her body camera captured it, without sound, because the cameras include a 30-second cache prior to pushing the button.
Prosecutors say Noor is demonstrating to Barnette how he fired the shot. “Did you find out the direction he shot?” someone asked Barnette. “He was in the car,” she replied.
But on the witness stand, as KARE reports, Barnette said Noor never told her anything about the shooting, even though under MPD policy she was supposed to ask a couple of basic questions, like the direction of the shot.
Barnette is also captured on her own body camera turning it off and on. “The blue wall of silence is alive and well,” Lawyer Bob Bennett, who negotiated a $20 million settlement for Damond’s family, said of the content of the videos. “Who were they protecting and serving?”
Joseph Daly, an emeritus professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, had a similar view about the impact of the body-camera videos, according to the Star Tribune.
“I think the public is going to see a conspiracy of silence,” said Daly. “The public’s going to look at this and say, ‘Is this what police officers do all of the time when they get in trouble? They tell them to keep their mouth shut?’ ”
GonadTheRuffian says
Pigs of a feather stick together.
LJW says
This so sickens me….I haven’t the words to express my sorrow for this young woman and her family! At the same time my rage is at the boiling point. The bright spot in all this….a cop goes to prison….what could possibly go wrong? The killer cop’s 72 virgins are looking like a real possibility sooner rather than later.
Anth S6 says
Where is a drive-by shooter when you need one? He needs to pay in more than a short sentence.
Ms. Landry says
The police who turned off their body cams to protect this disgusting me zzie should be fired. These policemen are playing with me zzie fire. Just wait til one of the infidel cops is shot dead by a me zlim cop for no apparent reason – except that he is an insane me zzie…it will happen (probably already did but our nwo msm blocked it out).
Cleavis Nowell (@CleavisNowell) says
All Somali should stay in somalia and be suicide bombers for al-Shabab or al-qaeda period.
Pray Hard says
As we’ve been seeing for years now, the globalists are putting their moslem enforcers in place.
Most_vilified_om says
Not trying to put shade on this, my cpl officer, said that I should not say anything without my lawyer.
Linda Rivera says
If only NON Muslim police had responded to the call for help, the murdered Australian woman would be alive today.
gmcmi says
POS MUSLIMS have no right to be in this country much less be damn cops. If so eager for law and order
why the hell not fix their own Shit hole country?
Karalina Sante says
Muslims are not here for better living conditions, they are here to destroy America and our way of life and to replace our government and Constitution with sharia law. There are other islamic countries they could go to if they just wanted better living conditions. And in any case, as soon as they get here they immediately start turning our country into the same crap hole they just left. They are not here to assimilate, they are here to force us to convert to islam
Orson says
Too True.
Gourdhead says
Spot on. I agree 125%.
TrueBlueInfidel says
What is the use of cops having body cams ….. if they can turn them off when it suits them ????
Az gal says
I’m not surprised. Cops protect their own first. Even a Muslum.
This isn’t over yet, as Noor is trying to get his conviction overturned.
Steve says
Until we know far more than these excerpts it is not unreasonable for any one to invoke their 5th Amendment right to remain silent. Yes cops waive that as a condition of EMPLOYMENT but can still invoke it and yes get unemployed. I am not defending Noor. He is a POS. I am defending the 5th which is part of the Constitution we are all required to live with.
Pray Hard says
And, that is exactly why moslems are not a legal problem, but a military problem. The people promoting moslem invasion, globalists and moslems, KNOW that the legal system is inadequate in dealing with moslems, but they’ll keep pretending to utilize it until it is even past a military solution.
RealFreedomFighter says
That is why it is dangerous to have a departmental Islamic cop caliphate.
BareNakedIslam says
Even one is too many.
Orson Olson says
Ship Somalis back to Somaliland