Posted on 01/06/2018 12:11:21 PM PST by MarvinStinson
Minneapolis, MN – Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton defended the state’s Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) on Friday, after Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman told an activist group that investigators “haven’t done their job” in investigating the officer-involved shooting death of Justine Damond.
The prosecutor cast blame on the BCA while speaking to an activist group at a union holiday reception on Wednesday, WCCO reported.
He said he was tasked with determining whether or not Officer Mohamed Noor was justified when he shot Damond, but that officers had not provided him with the information he needed to make a decision.
“I’ve got to have the evidence, and I don’t have it yet … Let me just say it’s not my fault. So if it isn’t my fault, who didn’t do their job? Investigators. They don’t work for me. They haven’t done their job,” Freeman said, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Dayton rebuffed Freeman’s claims on Friday, calling them “destructive,” the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
“The BCA is asked to investigate some of the toughest, most complex cases involving officer-involved shootings,” the governor said in a statement. “I have the utmost confidence in their professionalism, integrity, and thoroughness. Impugning the quality of their investigations is destructive, and detrimental in our efforts to seek and obtain justice.”
Freeman failed to explain what investigators actually failed to do. The case hinges on Freeman being able to prove that Officer Noor acted unreasonably, which is not something that's decided by investigators.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension conducted a full investigation and turned over the case to Freeman for charging consideration on Sept. 12.
Damond called 911 on the night of July 15 and reported a possible assault, WCCO reported.
According to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, Officer Noor and his partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, responded to Damond’s call.
Officer Harrity said that the officers were startled by a loud sound, and immediately afterwards Damond approached the driver’s door of the patrol vehicle. Officer Noor then shot Damond through the open driver’s window.
Freeman announced that he would personally be making the charging decision rather than sending the case to a grand jury, and has since failed to make a charging decision.
Following Dayton’s statement, Freeman did not respond to a request for comment on Friday, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.
The whole thing just seems like a gigantic cover-up to protect a murderous Muslim.
The prosecutor is full of excrement. He’s free to empanel a Grand Jury and start issuing subpoenas.
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Nobody in Leftist Land wants to get accused of racism, especially if the “race” in question is “Muslim.”
Nothing will ever come of this. The muslim cop will slide, his lying partner who has covered for him will slide and the family will never get any justice. Now the Governor along with the PD has blood on his hands too.
“Freeman told an activist group that investigators “haven’t done their job” in investigating the officer-involved shooting death of Justine Damond.”
Meaning that the investigators failed to give Freeman even a semi-plausible excuse to let the Somali cop off the hook that could pass the horse-laugh test.
The key to all of this is whether or not his partner was ever threatened or in fear of his life since he was closest to person shot. If he was not in fear of his life his partner “reasonably” should have been expected to realize this. The reasonable man theory would imply great overreaction and unjustifiable use of force homicide on the part of the shooting officer.
If the partner testifies that he was threatened and he could not draw ‘as in restrained by the woman shot’ then the shooting would be justifiable.
I live here so I know that Governor Goofy is a complete asskisser of the skinny muslims. They get everything and can do no wrong.
If these two armed cops were so afraid of an unarmed, sober woman wearing her jammies they could have just driven away. They were in no danger.
If a white cop had shot an unarmed muzzie or black woman under these same circumstances and nothing was done about it the town would be burned to the ground.
Governor Goofy is well known as someone who will replace white people with minorities in government positions of power at state agencies. Many very experienced people have been replaced by minorities with no clue.
...it’s for a trial jury to decide guilt and for a prosecutor to file charges or get an indictment and then prosecute the trial.
This prosecutor is trying to hold his spittle dampened finger to the wind and see which way the strongest political wind is blowing while keeping an eye on his political future.
This is a treacherous problem in lala land. As the darlings du jour are a fickly chosen set.
This is like asking for the best arrangement of crap rather than calling for soap and water.
Murderer - Black moslem from Somalia
Victim - White woman
Date of murder - July, 2017
I hear in MN they also call him Governor Mumbles. Is that true? lol
If anything, ANYTHING positive emerges from this atrocious murder & clean getaway for the Muslim murderer, it will be to signal to the rest of the country that a Muslim with a badge & gun is a lethal danger to all `unbelievers’ who might be nearby.
Unfortunately only a minority of the population is Islamo-wary enough to take notice.
In a perfect world the Muslim killer would have been stripped of his badge & gun, fired from the police force, and put on the street as an ordinary douchebag muzzie, where rough justice might prevail.
Well, since Freeman the prosecutor can’t or won’t make up his mind then I’ll do it for him: charge Officer Mohamed Noor the muslim with murder. See, that wasn’t hard.
Remember all those White Lives Matter protests with the riots, the burning, the looting?
Yes, Mumbles is a common name for him. Had it not been for Grandpas millions funding his campaigns, he would be working at a car wash.
He spent 7 million dollars to be state auditor.
He spent 50 million to be Senator.
He spent a fortune to be governor.
Always using Grandpas money.
But, he has always been a clueless moron.
Place: Minnesota
My suspicion: muslim murderer slides because he's muslim.
Where are the feds on this?
Still providing cover for that worthless moslem POS. This is the grossest miscarriage of justice that I’ve seen in a long time. I feel for Justine’s family. I don’t think they’ll ever see justice served. Minnesotans, especially Minnesota Democrats, should be ashamed of the despicable way this has been handled. But when have Democrats ever had any shame?
The whole thing just seems like a gigantic cover-up to protect a murderous Muslim......Absolutely.
Moral of the story...If you are white and in Minnesota,BEWARE THE MUSLIM COPS...
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