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bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)
Wed May 1, 2019, 10:16 AM May 2019

Where's all the LEO/NRA outrage at this officer's conviction?

(MINNEAPOLIS) — After three weeks of testimony, a jury needed little more than a day to convict a black Minneapolis police officer of murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed white woman who had called 911 to report a possible crime, delivering a guilty verdict that immediately sparked questions about whether race played a role.

Mohamed Noor was also convicted Tuesday of manslaughter in the July 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a 40-year-old dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia whose death bewildered and angered people in both countries.

Noor, 33, testified that he and his partner heard a loud bang on their squad car that startled them, and that he fired “to stop the threat” after he saw a woman appear at his partner’s window raising her arm. Prosecutors questioned whether the bang happened and attacked Noor for not seeing a weapon or Damond’s hands before he fired.

http://time.com/5580939/mohamed-noor-black-minneapolis-officer-shooting-justine-damond/

Not making apologies for putting police on trial, that happens too seldom, but ....

911 call about possible crime, person emerges from the dark with a raised arm, one shot fired.

Compare that to all the uncharged cases involving police officers firing multiple times at fleeing suspects during the day.

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