Posted on 07/20/2017 10:17:35 PM PDT by conservative98
MINNEAPOLIS — The fatal shooting of an Australian woman by a Minneapolis police officer responding to her 911 call “should not have happened,” police Chief Janee Harteau said Thursday, adding that the officer’s actions “go against who we are in the department.”
In her first public remarks since the death of Justine Damond, a 40-year-old life coach and bride-to-be, Harteau defended Officer Mohamed Noor’s training but criticized his actions.
“The actions in question go against who we are in the department, how we train and the expectations we have for our officers,” Harteau said. “These were the actions and judgment of one individual.”
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When this is finally made as a Lifetime movie of the week, it could be the strangest “buddy” cop movie yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_cop_film
A buddy cop film is a film with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process. The two are normally cops, but some films, such as 48 Hrs. (a cop and a con), that are not about two cops may still be referred to as buddy cop films. It is a subgenre of buddy films.
Frequently, although not always, the two heroes are of different ethnicity or cultures. However, regardless of ethnicity, the central difference is normally that one is “wilder” than the other: a hot-tempered iconoclast is paired with a more even-tempered partner...
Another frequent plot device of this genre is placing one of the partners in an unfamiliar setting (like a different city or foreign country)...
No wait..let's don't chuck it just yet. I can think of some good usage for it:
"Officer, why are you giving me a ticket. . .driving 65 in a 35 is just not who I am."
"Hello, Mastercard?. . .I see you are expecting me to pay $3995 for that Canon 5D Mark IV. . well, that's just not who I am."
Hey this works.. .I'll try to think of some more.
Actually there is some truth to that. Police departments are having difficulties trying to get enough officers to fill the ranks. The left has so poisoned the atmosphere that few people want the job.
Why is no one asking what happened to the woman telling for help? Did any other neighbors hear her? What was the guy on the bike doing riding around the alley at 11:30 pm?
Have the people in Minnesota lost their collective minds? Rhetorical question. Flooding their state with Somali refugees seems to be, well, rather insane.
Perhaps mad Mo had decided long ago he was going to shoot a winner any chance he got. It’s modder if the action was decided on before hand. Random killing can be murder. Perhaps juries already know that and judges begrudgingly do also.
You are going to attack a poster because he’s a police officer?
States get no say in where refugees are sent. In the case of Somalis in Minnesota, they go all the way back to GHW Bush. Lutheran Social Services and Catholic Charities get paid by the federal government to ‘aid’ refugees. State and local governments generally get no such financial help.
They're pretty quick to throw this guy under the us, but how about the department being so eager for "diversity" that they took a guy with problems?
That needs to be investigated as much as the shooting.
Well, with the number of citizens being shot/killed/wounded by officers of the law, it seems we ( non-qualified immunity folks) have reason to be concerned about our safety in the presence of those uniformed civilians who are now apparently so jittery and defensive, we should assume ( like every cop must, right?) that every encounter is capable of becoming a deadly threat environment.
Is that the converse of your statement?
I fear no man, but I do fear institutional force. Are you all getting on the bus? If you guys are, you probably ought to resign/retire and make pottery or something.
Otherwise, I have great respect for all first responders, being one myself.
Regarding Noor’s situation- I agree that murder one is off the table- murder 2, I think it likely, but as you stated- it would be a long stretch for a prosecutor to prove beyond reasonable doubt, negligent homicide? ( he will make it easy for the defense, after all it will be about money in the end, right?) Probably convictable, but not likely correct; so, in the end, he will be acquitted of M2, and the department and city will pay a billion in civil costs. Maybe later a federal investigation in civil rights violations will hold him liable.
Justine will still be shot dead, by a cop who had no cause to even be handling his weapon.
Justice for Justine will not come from the legal system, it killed her after all.
“States get no say in where refugees are sent.”
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Interesting. I didn’t realize that Governors and state legislators were so powerless.
Cops are human beings no more no less. They are judged like other people with the frame of reference that they are called upon to risk their lives for others on a regular basis. Their everyday world contains the possibility of violence and they are expected to react to that violence to protect others. They still make mistakes because of pressure or human frailty and face consequences but they are put in these situations to protect the rest of us.
This cop is apparently a bad apple & never should have been given a gun & badge. The people responsible will not be punished. He should be punished and imprisoned. If he is not a citizen I think he should be deported afterwards.
LEO are targeted enough and many are killed each year because of hatred of the type you are fomenting with your attack on the OP.
the trigger happy killer cop had his loaded gun out and on his lap and ready for action...
he was going to a scene where there was a possible VICTIM OF A CRIME...
innocent bystander...
is that usual police procedure ???
he was going to fire his weapon at anything that moved ???
premeditated murder..
was he planning to do an honor killing on a woman for “adultery” ??? yeah that’s /s
Thanks for that.
Well then how about we skip all discussion forgo the jury trial, verdict and sentencing you seem to have wrapped it up within a day.
What’s with you guys today. Molon Labbie is trying to add some definitions and practicality and you are treating it like he said the cop was right? That’s not what he said at all. You are acting like its dump on cops day and this comment gave you an excuse to unload. Too much emotion, misplaced.
I still travel a bit and don’t think I’ve seen a western city without big billboards and bus stop posters begging for new officers. To entice talent, the ads all extol the great things police do. But it’s damn hard to get recruits when obama put a bulls eye on you for BLM and other feral scum.
I find it remarkable that BLM cold blooded executions of officers almost stopped completely the day the Community Organizer / Rabble Rouser in Chief left office. Just thinking of him brings bile up.
I’m sure a lot of people come right up to the driver’s side window...remember he had his window rolled down...
how was she suppose to talk to the officers ???
when she heard the noise, she called her fiancé who was out of town at something or other business trip...
hed told her to call 911..
she also had at least one other phone conversation with Don..
that 2nd one may have been when they didn’t show up and she hadn’t heard any siren, and he may had told her to go outside and check for their lights...
however they didn’t even had their lights on...no siren
just a silent car with no lights...a traffic violation...if I drove through Minneapolis at midnight with no lights I’d be pulled over...and yeah probably shot...
the alley was well lit so she could make out the vehicle was a police car...
BTW I’m wondering how close the precinct building is to her home ??? she expected them a lot sooner ...a few blocks would mean they were dragging their feet err wheels...
with the siren on they could go through red lights etc...
She may have thought they were all at that building...
in the Wild West you got hung for shooting a man in the back, shooting a man who had not drawn on you first, and shooting an unarmed man ...or woman...
cut and dried and understood by all... baddie and goodie...
many cowboy movies have the plot about the marshal who killed some outlaw but gets accused of murder...
heck... even if the woman had been the rapist... (which makes ZERO sense) what justified shooting her?
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