Posted on 06/07/2019 5:34:33 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
A former Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman who had called 911 said Friday he "knew in an instant that I was wrong" and apologized to her family, just moments before a judge brushed off a defense request for leniency and ordered him to prison for 12½ years.
The stiff sentence for Mohamed Noor capped a case that had been fraught by race from the start. Noor, a Somali American, shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond , a white, upper-middle-class dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia, when she approached his squad car in the alley behind her home in July 2017.
Noor, 33, testified at trial that a loud bang on the squad car startled him and his partner and that he fired to protect his partner's life. But prosecutors criticized Noor for shooting without seeing a weapon or Damond's hands, and in April, a jury convicted him of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.
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In her pajamas. She was very scary.
“I once shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I’ll never know.”
Groucho Marx
And in Congress after that.
US citizen for 21 years. They don’t usually deport US citizens, except maybe Nazi war criminals who lied on their citizenship applications. Obviously deporting a citizen based on their religion would be unconstitutional.
Black, hispanic and asian cops had better watch their asses. The chickens will come home to roost on them just as surely as on whites.
IMO defense counsel made a serious mistake in asking for a ridiculously light sentence. It showed utter lack of appreciation for the gravity of the offense, and contempt towards both court and victim.
Yes, and although I understand counsel's obligation to bargain as they can for their clients, that should never have gone public. It was perceived as a calculated slap in the face and I am not yet convinced that it was not intended that way.
If I were her husband I would be waiting at the gate at the end of his sentence
Lowered standards to get minorities as cops.
Amen.....
.....and did you catch his lawyer’s version of (gag) justice?
Told the judge Noor’d go to jail once a year....on Janine’s birthday.....to “honor her.”
....only from the sixth century mind of a creepy devout Muslim.......
Lawyer argued for probation, says he will appeal.
Nah, just pay the families of other inmates to have the inmates beat the crap out of him weekly. $50 does the trick. I had a guy wrong me and go to State prison. $200/month and that guy lived in terror for two years straight.
Not even close to being enough for a muslim murdering a white woman that he hated.
JoMa
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