by Bob Walsh
Mohamed Noor was a Minneapolis police officer, their first Somali. Almost two years ago he shot a woman to death in an alley. She had called the cops to report a suspected sexual attack. As she walked towards the police car officer Noor drew his weapon while seated in the car and fired a shot across his partner, who was behind the wheel, that killed Justine Damond, 40.
The jury deliberated about 11 1/2 hours on Monday and Tuesday before finding former officer Noor guilty of third-degree murder, which is causing the death of another by acting without regard for human life but without intent to kill.
The presumptive sentence is 12 1/2 years.
He was an officer for 2 years before the shooting incident.
EDITOR'S NOTE:His partner should have killed Noor for shooting across him.
8 comments:
Without intent to kill? I don't understand.
Liberal politicians and police administrators wanted a Somali police officer so badly that they failed to can him for his poor performance, both at the academy and later, on the job. Another feel good liberal do gooder plan gone horribly wrong.
I feel almost as badly for the officer as I do for the woman he shot. Noor was not suited for this type of work. It was reported that he pancaked when the woman, who walked up behind them unnoticed, pounded on the side of their unit in the middle of the night. That's all this was.
I agree with Trey. A pancaked officer firing at a perceived threat in the middle of the night should, at the very most, constitute manslaughter.
Nor do I.
"Panicked."
Not "pancaked."
Damn auto correct.
Thanks Dave for clearing that up. Now I can stop browsing the internet to find out what a pancaked officer is. Seriously though, I knew that you meant panicked, but there was no way I could correct it.
Noor was asserting that the dead lady thumped hard on the fender of the patrol car, causing him to believe they were under attack. Nobody else heard it.
That may well be the case Bob, but in any event, it seems pretty clear that he reacted out of fear. I simply cannot believe he simply shot her, firing within inches his partner's chest in the vehicle, for any other reason.
I would guess the prosecutor's case is that Noor's fear, and his reaction to that fear, was unreasonable under the circumstances. Which still doesn't, in my mind, rise to a murder conviction.
From what I can figure by reading limited information their third degree murder is more or less the same as CA manslaughter.
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