Update: defense attorneys will ask for no prison time (pretty obvious that they would ask)
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Re: caller reporting rape shot by police while on phone w/th
Well there were obviously "extenuating circumstances".M-Quigley wrote:Update: defense attorneys will ask for no prison time (pretty obvious that they would ask)
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Why I bet she was out dressed "immodestly" without a male escort.
Probably the next Congressman from Minnesota...
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I would have to agree that it did make it more likely that this officer was convicted BUT I think this jury got it right and this was murder (whatever shade of statute selected aside). The point I make is the officer that shot Castille should be in prison as well. No question in my mind. Officers can't be allowed to take the mindset that they are in a war zone and anytime they fire a weapon there are no consequences no matter how wrong they are.M-Quigley wrote:IDK if these comments are specifically from BLM members or not, but in the MSM there's this:deanimator wrote:I'm sure Black Lies Matter doesn't know whether to crap or go blind.drc wrote:he was found guilty
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For them the victim pyramid just turned into a Moebius loop.
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It's rare for police officers to be convicted after asserting they fired in a life-or-death situation, but some Minnesota community members said they saw it coming for Noor because he is Somali American.
"Officer Noor was going to jail no matter what because he's a black man who shot a white woman in the state of Minnesota," said John Thompson, an activist and friend of Philando Castile, a black man who was killed in 2016 by a Latino suburban police officer who was acquitted.
Alana Ramadan, an African American and Muslim who held a sign calling for the resignation of Hennepin County's head prosecutor, said the African American people she's spoken with knew Noor would be convicted.The jury included 10 men and two women. Six of the jurors, including the two women, are people of color.
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Re: caller reporting rape shot by police while on phone w/th
And of course a legal analyst for CNN and HLN has to automatically jump to racism over the ex cops sentence, giving facts which are mostly irrelevent to this particular case. He talks about shootings of black people by white officers and the legal reaction in other states. Some of his comments are:
And uses comparisons such as:
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He could've gotten up to 20 and received 12.5 yrs sentence.Police are seldom -- if ever -- indicted, much less convicted, for shooting African American men. Yet, where the victim here is a white woman and the police officer is black, he gets the book thrown at him. This sentence is lengthy and unjust,and shows a capitulation by the judge against her oath to administer justice.
And uses comparisons such as:
Was there other cops in Minn. shooting unarmed people that were standing outside their patrol car simply because they were scared? I was not aware of this.Officer Noor is the first officer convicted in Minnesota in such a circumstance. And he happens to be black. Coincidence?
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Update:
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Ex-Minneapolis cop Mohamed Noor resentenced to nearly 5 years in death of 911 caller
By Theresa Seiger, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
HENNEPIN COUNTY, Minn. — A judge on Thursday resentenced former Minneapolis police Officer Mohamed Noor to 57 months in prison for the 2017 death of 911 caller Justine Ruszczyk after the Minnesota Supreme Court overturned his murder conviction last month.
Hennepin County Judge Kathryn Quaintance sentenced Noor to the maximum possible sentence for second-degree manslaughter. While delivering the sentence, she noted that Noor shot across the nose of his partner and endangered a bicyclist and surrounding residents, including a household that was entertaining guests on a nearby porch.
With the time he’s already served in prison, he’s expected to be released in June 2022, according to MPR News.
Noor shot and killed Ruszczyk on July 15, 2017, after she called 911 to report a possible rape behind her home in Minneapolis. The 40-year-old yoga teacher and native of Australia died a month before she was set to marry Don Damond, according to CNN.
Prosecutors had asked for Noor to face the maximum penalty for second-degree murder, noting that Noor “wore the badge,” according to MPR News. Noor’s attorney, Thomas Plunkett, had asked for a 41-month sentence, citing the former police officer’s good behavior behind bars and harsh conditions that he faced during many months in solitary, away from the general prison population.
In 2019, Noor testified that in July 2017, he and his partner heard a loud bang on their police SUV as they were driving slowly in an alley, which made them fear for their lives, according to The Associated Press. He fired a shot from the passenger seat of the SUV after seeing a woman appear at the driver’s side window of the vehicle and raise her right arm, the AP reported.
In 2019, a jury sentenced Noor to 12 1/2 years in prison for third-degree murder. The Minnesota Supreme Court overturned that sentence last month, saying in an opinion that there was insufficient evidence to fit the charge under state law.