especially in the 'hood
Posted on 07/20/2017 10:00:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A lawyer for the family of an Australian woman shot dead by police in Minneapolis says suggestions officers feared an ambush were "ludicrous".
Robert Bennett said Justine Damond was in her pyjamas when she approached them and "was not a threat to anyone".
Ms Damond was shot after approaching two officers in their car on Saturday after reporting a suspected rape.
Mr Bennett has acted in similar cases, including the high-profile police shooting of Philando Castile in 2016.
Fred Bruno, the lawyer for Matthew Harrity, whose partner killed Ms Damond, 40, had said: "It is reasonable to assume an officer in that situation would be concerned about a possible ambush."
But Mr Bennett told CBS News: "I think that's ludicrous. It's disinformation. It doesn't have any basis in fact."
He added: "She obviously wasn't armed, was not a threat to anyone, and nor could she have reasonably been perceived to be."
Officer Mohamed Noor, who shot Ms Damond in the abdomen in an upmarket neighbourhood of the city, has refused to be interviewed by investigators, as is his legal right.
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I got on google earth and “drove” around the neighborhood. Pretty amazing - it hasn’t changed in 30 years. Really 40 years - when I would ride my bike to grandma’s house. It actually looks nicer than what I recall.
Although I lived out in the suburbs with larger lots and larger homes, so I probably just looked at the “small” houses as a kid. Now I appreciate how nice most of them are - and the well-kept landscaping.
Another thing it reminded me of - no fences in the yards. In our suburb too - nobody had fences - we would play in the backyard and could roam all over the place.
Here in suburban Seattle everybody has a 7-foot wood privacy fence in the back yard - and some front yards.
The ones that define justifiable homicide.
especially in the 'hood
A flash of light across a cellphone could have been the “trigger”.
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