Police officer charged with murder

[Tomjas]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/20/justine-damond-shooting-police-officer-mohamed-noor-charged

Dreadful stuff

Victim was a friend of a friend and was gunned down after approaching a police car

Something is seriously wrong when an officer is so fearful of the public that he saw fit to shoot an unarmed woman in her pyjamas in a decent neighbourhood

[Motorcity Cobra]

Noor and his partner, officer Matthew Harrity, responded to a 911 call in an alley on the 5100 block of Washburn Avenue late in the evening on July 15.

Damond had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home. Harrity and Noor's squad car slowed to 2 miles per hour while driving through the alley, but never fully stopped behind Damond's house, the criminal complaint stated.

Harrity, who was driving the squad, later told investigators he was startled by a loud noise near his vehicle. That was followed immediately by Damond approaching the driver's side window. According to the criminal complaint, Noor had his gun out as the vehicle was driving down the alley.

Harrity said Noor, sitting in the passenger seat, then discharged his weapon, striking Damond through the open driver's side window.

He said he heard a voice or a thump somewhere outside the squad car and caught a glimpse of a person's head and shoulders outside his window, the complaint states.

"He (Harrity) was not able to articulate what the noise was, how loud it was, what the person's voice sounded like, or what the person said," the complaint states. "He characterized the voice as a muffled voice or whisper. He could not see whether the person was a male, female, adult, or child. He could not see the person's hands from the driver's seat and estimated the person was two feet away from him. He saw no weapons."

Harrity perceived his life was in danger, according to the complaint. He said he was startled and said "Oh ****" or "Oh Jesus."

He said he reached for his gun, un-holstered it, and held it to his ribcage while pointing it downward.

According to the complaint, he heard a sound that "sounded like a light bulb dropping on the floor and saw a flash. After first checking to see if he had been shot, he looked to his right and saw Officer Noor with his right arm extended in the direction of Officer Harrity."

Harrity reportedly said he did not see Noor's gun, but looked out his window and saw a woman put her hands on a gunshot wound on the left side of her abdomen.

Neither officer turned on their body cameras until after the shooting, and there was no squad-car camera video of the incident. The criminal complaint says after he got out of the car following the shooting, Harrity told Noor to "re-holster his gun and turn his body worn camera on."

The complaint states body-worn camera video afterward captured a conversation between Harrity and his supervising sergeant at the scene. In that conversation, Harrity reportedly said "we both got spooked," and that Noor had "pulled out and fired."

He also reportedly did not mention hearing a voice or noise before the shot was fired in that conversation.

A medical examiner's report said 40-year-old Damond died of a gunshot wound to the abdomen. The criminal complaint states the bullet that struck her had a backward, rightward, and slightly downward trajectory.

Noor has not spoken publicly about the case and declined to speak with investigators from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

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[Tony Trick-Pony]

I heard about this a while back. Such a shame. She lost her life over nothing. I hope they put him under the jail.

[HanzGruber]

I was just about to post a story about a cop beating the fuk out of a 12 yr old girl for no reason. Maybe another day

[Elroy The Great]

I was just about to post a story about a cop beating the fuk out of a 12 yr old girl for no reason. Maybe another day

i mentioned it....

https://www.boxingscene.com/forums/s...21335&page=290