Posted on 02/06/2018 2:59:31 PM PST by JP1201
MINNEAPOLIS (CN) – A grand jury convened Tuesday over the fatal shooting of an Australian woman by a Minneapolis police officer last summer, a month after a state prosecutor called for further investigation.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman went back on his word and decided to use a grand jury in the officer-involved shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, 40, who was killed in an alley near her home when Minneapolis Police Officer Mohamed Noor and his partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, responded to her 911 call about a possible assault in the area.
She was dressed in pajamas when she died of a single gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to the Minnesota a Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, or BCA.
“The officers drove south through the alley between Washburn and Xerxes avenues toward West 51st Street in search of a suspect,” the BCA said in a statement last July. “All squad lights were off. As they reached West 51st Street, Officer Harrity indicated that he was startled by a loud sound near the squad. Immediately afterward Ruszczyk approached the driver’s side window of the squad. Harrity indicated that Officer Noor discharged his weapon, striking Ruszczyk through the open driver’s side window. The officers immediately exited the squad and provided medical attention until medical personnel arrived. Ruszczyk was pronounced dead at the scene.”
Freeman had previously stated that he would no longer use grand juries in police shooting cases due to the lack of transparency. Because of the secrecy of the proceedings, Freeman declined to confirm whether the grand jury is investigating the case, but said he would make his own decision on whether to charge Noor.
But Freeman’s decision to use a grand jury was made public after more than 30 officers received subpoenas, about one month after he claimed there wasn’t enough evidence and additional investigation was needed.
The officers subpoenaed will testify before the grand jury while prosecutors decide whether to charge Noor for Damond’s death.
Bob Kroll, president of the Minneapolis Police Federation, said many of the officers subpoenaed to testify were Noor’s trainers and academy educators, according to the Star Tribune.
Officer Harrity has told investigators that he was “startled by a loud sound near the squad” when he and Noor arrived on the scene.
According to a Star Tribune report, Damond approached the driver’s side window of the squad car “immediately afterward.” Noor reportedly shot from the passenger seat, across his partner and through the window, hitting Damond in the abdomen. She died 20 minutes later.
At the time of her death, Damond worked as a life coach and shared a home with her fiancé in South Minneapolis. She was engaged to be married to U.S. citizen Don Damond, and already had taken his name.
Shortly after the incident, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called the killing “shocking” and “inexplicable,” and said his diplomats were requesting answers from U.S. officials. The officers’ body cameras were not turned on until after Damond was shot.
Using a grand jury tells us the fix is in.
It has been said a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich. Bet this one will never indict a goat humping Somali.
The grand jury will be loaded with islamophiles and Somali lovers and we will never know.
No justice for Justine. :-(
The last thing I heard was that Noor had refused to be interviewed by investigators. Does anyone know anything more on this?
They couldn’t delay to protect the Somali jihadi cop any longer?
Donger finally retired.
As I read it, County attorney Mike Freeman will make the call whether to indict or not.
The Grand Jury has been assembled to gather evidence which Freeman will use to make his decision. I hope he makes the right one.
White people will watching this one very closely, including yours truly.
Freeman comes from a long line of lefty politicians, but as far as I can tell, he’s been a pretty good County Attorney.
Seems to pursue correct judgments.
Evidently, Noor lacks quite a lot of what is required to be a competent police officer. Unfortunately, this incident occurred at the intersection of Affirmative Action Street and Muslim Outreach Avenue.
I’m no lawyer, but when this happened, I looked up voluntary manslaughter and fits perfectly for this shooting.
For voluntary manslaughter, you have 1 of 2 things:
1) crime of passion - ex. a guy comes home and finds his wife in bed with the postman, and shoots one or both of them.
2) imperfect self defense - ex. I thought she had a gun.
In any case, whether he was pissed that she wasn’t dressed modestly or he was just “startled”, it doesn’t matter. She wasn’t a threat.
I’m hopeful that the DA is going to a grand jury so he doesn’t have to sign off on a true bill himself so his cop buddies won’t hate him. But it could just we a way to sweep it under the rug.
We’ll see what happens.
YUp. The murderer has clammed up, as is common, especially in police shootings. The really interesting thing though, is that you never hear any comment about his partner. You know, the guy who probably had his hearing permanently damaged because a shot was fired right in his face in an enclosed space without any hearing protection.
The lack of curiosity of all parties in his comments is especially telling.
It was against his religion, whatever it was.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
His religion: An eye for an eye......
And IMHO NOOR needs it badly.
Is there more to this story?>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Gotta be. Why would a shakey Muslim bitch like Noor draw his revolver and shoot across his partners chest into a woman at the drivers side window? There has to be a real reason. And no one seems to know what that reason was. Noor apparently was a misogynist of the first water.Where are the feminists
on the matter, apparently no one can abuse a woman except a Muslim?
Affirmative action hire? Huge damage award coming from the civil suit. I hope Damond’s family sues Noor right back into the ice age, so that he hasn’t as much as a camel turd for the rest of his miserable life.
Turnbull is unsatisfactory.
His verb should have been "demanding", not "requesting". What a wimp!
Agreed. We must make this trend as much as possible because anytime a muslim murders a white person, the media suppresses the incident and makes like it never happened.
We must fight back against these horrible liberals destroying our country by bringing these third country nationals into the US in mass.
JoMa
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