Third guy from left has his weapon trained pretty well.
Posted on 07/21/2017 5:01:44 AM PDT by SJackson
Political correctness put her in the way of a “nervous, jumpy” Muslim cop who took her life.
A forty-year-old Australian woman named Justine Damond called 911 in Minneapolis Saturday night to report what she thought might be a rape; when police arrived, she approached the police car, and a Minneapolis police officer named Mohamed Noor shot her dead. Since then, Noor has refused to be interviewed by investigators, but has spoken to friends about what happened and why. The more Noor and those who know him have spoken, the more it becomes clear: Justine Damond was a casualty of “Islamophobia.”
Mohamed Noor is a Somali Muslim. He was the first Somali Muslim on the Minneapolis police force. In 2016, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges expressed her excitement about that fact: “I want to take a moment to recognize Officer Mohamed Noor, the newest Somali officer in the Minneapolis Police Department. Officer Noor has been assigned to the 5th Precinct, where his arrival has been highly celebrated, particularly by the Somali community in and around Karmel Mall.”
Hodges wasn’t excited because Mohamed Noor had the skills necessary to become a fine police officer. She was only excited because he represented a religious and ethnic that she was anxious to court. And it is increasingly clear, as we learn about Mohamed Noor’s nervousness and jumpiness and lack of respect for women, and from his own account of events that he relayed to friends (that he was “startled” and reacted by opening fire), that Mohamed Noor was not cut out to be a policeman. He did not have the temperament for it, and if he hadn’t killed Justine Damond, he would likely have done something similar at some point.
So why was he on the force at all? Because he was the first Somali Muslim on the Minneapolis police force. He was a symbol of our glorious multicultural mosaic. He was a rebuke to “Islamophobes” and proof that what they say is false. Minneapolis authorities placed a great deal of faith in Mohamed Noor. He was for them the triumph of diversity, the victory of their worldview. But he has let them down.
Mohamed Noor is not a jihad terrorist. This was not a jihad attack. He is just a trigger-happy, panicky, reckless individual who held his job not because he was fit for it, but because of what he symbolized. And in the wake of his failure, Minneapolis multiculturalists aren’t about to reconsider their religion. On the contrary, they are doubling down. Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges has immediately recognized — as authorities do everywhere after jihad attacks — that the real victims are not those who were killed or wounded, but the Muslim community. She should have issued a statement saying that she recognized that Mohamed Noor was not hired because he was competent, but because he was a Somali Muslim, and that she sees now that Leftist social engineering on the police force costs lives. She should have promised that from now on, police officers will be hired based on their fitness for the job, not their religion or ethnicity.
Instead, this, from Hodges’ Facebook page:
Betsy Hodges
17 hrs · Minneapolis, MN ·
To the Somali community: I want you to know that you are a valued and appreciated part of Minneapolis. I stand with you and support you. The strength and beauty of the Somali and East African communities are a vital part of what makes Minneapolis so strong and beautiful. I am grateful to be your neighbor.
This week a Somali police officer, Officer Mohamed Noor, shot and killed a woman under circumstances we don’t yet comprehend. Justine Damond’s death was tragic and awful for everyone. And I want to be very clear that Officer Noor, a fully trained officer in the Minneapolis Police Department, won’t be treated differently than any other officer.
Justine’s death is a tragedy for our city. We cannot compound that tragedy by turning to racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia. It is unjust and ridiculous to assert that an entire community be held responsible for the actions of one person. That will not be tolerated in Minneapolis. If you are experiencing discrimination, you can file a complaint at http://www.minneapolismn.gov/civil…/discrimination-complaint
Mayor Hodges is reassuring Muslims and warning against “Islamophobia,” as if a non-Muslim police officer had shot an unarmed Muslim woman. But that’s not what happened. And in issuing this warning, Hodges is only reinforcing the false premises that led to the killing of Justine Damond in the first place: the idea that Muslims are a victimized, persecuted community that needs special consideration, such that an incompetent Muslim police officer had to be hired. This just ensures that in the future, there will be more Justine Damonds.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies). Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
But libtards believe that MN’s “magic dirt” will turn a Somali wolf “Minnesota nice.”
See 14.
These liberal/highly progressive types are becoming the norm as mayors of many larger cities. Add female to liberal/progressive mayors in numerous larger cities, and; the trend becomes all neighborhoods, except the wealthiest, are forced to integrate starting with section 8 apartments. They dumped Obama’s Muslim human imports into numerous zip codes in Nashville. This idiot mayor and her diversity BS is as lost as an Easter egg. These damn Muslims will never assimilate or do zip for America. They are loyal to ISLAM only. Hiring a police officer or even giving preference because he is Somali should get this idiot mayor out of office.
Betsy Hodges shouldn’t have the job she’s got and Mohamed Noor shouldn’t have the job he’s got. Symbols (Noor) and political correctness (Hodges) get innocent people killed.
When is this murderer going to be charged with murder?
Exactly. And the mayor handed a gun and a badge to an idiot who could not even pass the AFQT.
She doesn’t give a $hit about the White woman murdered by a muzzy. She only cares about protecting muzzies’ sorry a$$es from imagined attacks by those evil non-muzzies.
Nothing will change after this. A lot of insincere words will be spoken and they will look for another muzzy to replace the one who’s going to jail for life.
Justine is just another of the innocents whose heart was ripped out on the altar of political correctness. The sacrifices will continue, because the god multiculti will never be appeased.
PC/MC/AA plus liberal/progressive mayors have allowed demonstrations to get out of control into riots. Add groups like BLM, plus Soros’s paid agitators, then LEO’s ride in their patrol car and get a report to look out for X and his pals. You and another LEO have pulled over a car blasting rap music and you cannot even see inside it due to blacked out windows. You can bet your fanny cops should be highly on guard today.
Has the perp been charged with murder yet or not?
I’d bet anything his partner will (upon cross examination) admit Noor has pulled his service pistol out on other occasions while on patrol. There were other times they pulled up to the scene and he had already drawn his gun out of fear or whatever he’s going to call it. In order for his story to make sense, he had to have his gun out before he was startled. Otherwise, he would have had to have been startled, decided to draw his gun while sitting down, aim across the chest of his partner, and pull the trigger.
Muzzies get to be both purp and victim:
after your pistol smoke clears, people apologize to you and tell you they love you.
it’s like the Twilight Zone.
Not at all.
Mr. Bracken, as usual, has supplied the correct answer.
We’re importing the wrong people from woefully backwards locales.
It’s time to stop it.
"Highly on guard" is one thing. Shooting people who were not a threat to them is quite another. In none of the cases I mentioned was the situation anything remotely like what you described.
I do not at all want to blame the victim with this question.
After hearing screaming in an alley in the dead of night, presumably a sexual assault in progress by who knows how many assailants, why would a woman run outside in her pj’s? (or fully clothed).
She had called the police; they had arrived. She had heard but not seen anything. The only useful info she had to convey was “not in front, dumbass, in the alley like I told 911 twice — BOLO for someone screaming rape”). Running outside greatly increased the odds of her suffering injury or death, at the hands of police, criminals, or crossfire.
“.....Or Fire Him If He Refuses”...”
Empty threat. Like he isn’t going to be FIRED anyway. You can’t be on the police force if you are in PRISON.
This guy is GUILTY, unless he gets an OJ jury.
GREAT apropos photo. (just a little French lingo there)
Exactly correct, I do not understand what forces could have devolved the demorats to embrace the Islamics that are totally destroying the country. Do all liberal woman really want to wear a burka and get their clit cut? Amazing.
Like the Twilight Zone....
Or An IDIOCRACY !
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