Originally Posted at Free Market Shooter
On Saturday, July 15th, Justine Damond was shot and killed by Officer Mohamed Noor after responding to a noise complaint made by Damond:
The Minnesota cop who shot and killed an Australian bride-to-be opened fire on her after being startled by a “loud sound” near his patrol car, investigators say.
Officer Mohamed Noor, 31, began blasting at 40-year-old Justine Damond, of Minneapolis, just moments after he and his partner, Matthew Harrity, heard the noise in the alley behind her house, according to the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.
One notable difference between this shooting and others that make headlines is the fact that a black man (a Somali migrant, no less) shot and killed a white woman; one could only imagine the public’s reaction would be far different if the “race shoe” was on the other foot.
No matter the circumstances, the prudent thing to do in all instances of shootings is to wait until the facts come out before making any judgments. And in Noor’s case, the facts point towards a bad decision, which was spurred on by poor officer training and relaxed hiring standards that were focused on adding “members of the community” to the police force.
The red flags start to pop up as soon as you look into how the incident unfolded:
The Star Tribune, citing three people with knowledge of the shooting, said the officers pulled into the alley in a single squad car, and Ms Damond talked to the driver.
The newspaper’s sources, which it did not name, said the officer in the passenger seat shot her through the driver’s-side door.
Officials said the officers’ body cameras were not turned on and a squad car camera did not capture the shooting. Investigators were still trying to determine whether other video exists.
It’s not clear why the officers’ body cameras were not on.
To be fair, there are reports of both single and multiple shots being fired, so it could be a case of a “negligent discharge.” However, this would mean the absolute best case scenario for the officer is an atrocious display of trigger discipline and general lack of regard for firearm safety. It is difficult to believe that the Minneapolis police department administered any training which detailed a scenario that an officer seated in the passenger seat of a squad car should point their firearm towards their fellow officer in the driver’s seat while he is engaging in a dialogue with an unknown individual:
Mr Noor’s gun was on his lap — and not in his holster — at the time on the incident.
In the worst case scenario, it would mean that an officer’s training (or lack thereof) actually found it to be acceptable to direct his firearm’s muzzle towards his fellow officer while firing at another person. Would anyone be surprised to learn that Noor graduated from a “fast-track” program designed to get cops on the street as fast as possible…
The officer who fatally shot Justine Damond graduated in 2015 from the city’s accelerated police cadet program. The seven-month training is a quicker, nontraditional route to policing aimed at helping those who already have a college degree enter law enforcement.
The Minneapolis program covers tuition at Hennepin Technical College and pays trainees a $20-an-hour salary with benefits while they work to get licensed. After that their salary bumps up.
…and would anyone be surprised to learn that he had a history of problems in his police record prior to the incident, and had a history of displaying a lack of respect for women in particular?
The Minnesota police officer who shot and killed an Australian bride-to-be has had three complaints filed against him during his two-year law enforcement career.
Two of the three complaints in Mohamed Noor’s police file are active, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. One was closed without discipline.
“He is extremely nervous … he is a little jumpy … he doesn’t really respect women, the least thing you say to him can set him off,” Mr Miller said.
At first glance, this appears to be a “fast-track” training program designed to get cops on the street that had a major lapse with Noor. However, Minneapolis is known as having one of the highest migrant populations in the U.S., particularly Somali, and Somalis were a particular target of the department’s “outreach” program, due to their heavy concentrations in the city:
The city’s affirmative-action program requires it to give preferential treatment to minorities, not only those hired by the city but by all contractors awarded contracts of more than $100,000.
The city’s leaders bemoaned the fact that they could not come up with more blacks to staff 100 new positions that came open at the end of 2014. The Star-Tribune, in an Aug. 19, 2014, article headlined “Minneapolis police struggle to hire diverse force,” interviewed several activists who took the city to task for allowing the number of black officers to dwindle.
With 100 new openings, the city was all but apologizing for the fact that at least 71 percent would be white, saying it had tried everything to recruit more blacks over the years, including a pre-high school academy that nurtured young black kids who showed an interest in law enforcement. But was having only marginal success.
Even the Mayor of Minneapolis, Betsy Hodges, went out of her way to personally recognize Noor’s minority status as a Somali when he was brought onto the police force:
Mohamed Noor is a Somali Muslim. Last year, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges expressed her excitement about his joining the police force:
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.
So the facts support a different conclusion; this was clearly an affirmative action hire, which resulted in a poorly-trained and unqualified officer winding up on the force. You might be stunned, but you should hardly be surprised to learn that Hodges quickly changed her tune about Noor following the incident…
At a press conference to respond to Saturday’s fatal officer-involved shooting in southwest Minneapolis’ Fulton neighborhood, Mayor Betsy Hodges said she was “heartsick and deeply disturbed” by the incident that left a woman dead.
“I am heartsick and deeply disturbed by the fatal officer-involved shooting last night that happened in southwest Minneapolis,” Hodges said.
…but that didn’t stop her from blaming the incident on the policies of her police chief and forcing her out. Notably, the chief might have gotten her own job as a result of Hodges’ “commitment to diversity” on the police force:
Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau resigned abruptly Friday amid growing criticism from the public and the City Council following the fatal police shooting of Justine Damond.
The chief’s departure came at the request of Mayor Betsy Hodges, who promptly nominated Assistant Chief Medaria Arradondo, a 28-year veteran of the force, to replace Harteau. The move ended Harteau’s 4½-year run as the first woman and first openly gay person to head the department.
Clearly, this “commitment to diversity” displayed by Hodges, Harteau and the city of Minneapolis was what put a poorly-trained police officer on the streets, and led to the untimely death of Namond.
Affirmative Action policies have more than enough problems; at their core, they encourage people to seek easy access rather than actually becoming qualified. This ends up rewarding unqualified candidates with positions, lowers performance standards, and makes everyone less accountable for failures on the job. These policies rear their ugly heads in places like college admissions, workplace hiring, and military training, putting unqualified candidates in roles they would not ordinarily be able to attain with their own talents. It is sad that it takes the case of Officer Noor to focus attention on the problem of Affirmative Action; he likely would have never been on the force at all if it wasn’t for the “community outreach” programs pushed by Mayor Hodges.
But don’t tell that to liberal media like Vox and Think Progress; they still found a way to race-bait and blame white people for their reaction to the facts surrounding the Noor incident:
While many people — including some Black Lives Matter activists — criticized the shooting, very few defended Noor in the same way they have stood up for police officers in previous incidents. Not many articles focused on nitpicking the lack of information we have to try to weaken the case against the police. There’s been little to no victim blaming.
The difference in reaction is alarming. But it’s not unexpected. The research suggests much of America really does react differently to tragedies involving white victims than black ones. We are seeing that play out in real time in the response to Damond’s death.
When victims of police shootings are black, many pundits demand patience, withhold judgment of the officer’s actions, and start looking for dirt on the person killed. Damond isn’t targeted with the same prejudicial scrutiny, and Noor isn’t getting the same wait-and-see defense.
These reactions are astonishing in their racism, but the problem goes far beyond that. They also exonerate the police institutions that trained Noor, the conduct regulations that governed his behavior, and the political environment in which he and all other police currently operate.
Yes, liberal media really believes that objective analysis of the facts on a case-by-case basis has amounted to racism, because the facts clearly point to Noor making a poor decision due to poor training. Notice how liberal media omitted conservative reaction to the shooting by Officer Michael Slager?
No surprises here – liberal media has learned from the best when it comes to cherry-picking stories to fit their race-baiting narrative.
Why has this “poorly trained’ affirmative-action officer not been fired ?
How has he avoided an official interview ? Is there an independent investigation, with qualified personnel staffing the commission ?
Given the plethora of ridiculous statements praising and elevating her affirmative action policies — why has this incompetent Mayor Betsy Hodges not resigned yet ?
Lots of questions and few answers. My deepest and sincere condolences to family and friends of this wonderful woman, Justine Damond .
SnowieGeorgie
I live in PDRMPLS – Peoples Demokratik Republik of Minneapolis.
This is a fucking Clown Show. Our mayor “Bike Lane Betsy” fired/through under the bus the lesbo chief of polize Jeanne Hartau. Last year the Mpls Red Star news-rag published that Hartau was on the list of the top 100 leaders in the US.
Noor was previously a motel manager and a cell phone salesman. That’s really go material to make into a cop.
Noor has an attorney. He has said nothing to the BCA or the Mpls Polize Dept.
A coal-burning Commie hires a dyke who fast-tracked a Muzzie nigger….
Lawdy, lawdy, whocouldathunkit would result in something like this?
We need a like button 🙂
Fired? Oh no,no, no. He needs to be promoted. He, along with a blind Mexican, an epileptic Nigerian, and a trannie with Tourette’s, should be fast tracked immediately to mayor betsy’s security detail.
We wouldn’t want to take the afterglow of diversity away from “Wonder Woman”, would we? Oh, the mare’s personal residence needs to be moved to “Little Somalia” post haste. She’s gonna look great in a burka.
This woman was a raging liberal leftist Progressive.I say that Muslim did white Americans like myself a favor.
If that is, in fact, true, I agree.
If this is how shit is gonna go down, let the liberals pay the price.
Fuck you BB – you’d hit that in a moment.
If it is true she was pro somali muslim immigration and pro affirmative action, she reaped what she sowed
They assigned this idiot to the one precinct in the city that has virtually zero crime – and he still found someone to shoot – a 40 year old Australian woman in pajamas.
Obviously she was tempting him with unclean thoughts.
Fasttracked? It’s cutting across track.
“The first marshal to cross the track was a 25-year-old panel beater named William (Bill). The second was 19-year-old Frederik “Frikkie” Jansen van Vuuren, who was carrying a 40-pound (18 kg) fire extinguisher.[48]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Pryce#Death
It’s “course-cutting and bib-swapping.”
http://www.runnersworld.com/racing/how-common-is-cheating-at-marathons
It’s motors hidden in bicycles.
http://www.bicycling.com/racing/are-tour-de-france-racers-cheating-with-secret-motors
It’s affirmative theft. That’s the action.
Oh, cut the crap. This 70 IQ foreigner had no business wearing the uniform of an American police officer. God damn all liberal nitwits to hell for this. After the shit hits the fan in this country there will be no Noors or Mohammads on any police force. This bastard had no legal right to be sworn in as a cop as his Muslim religion places that above loyalty to the USA, to say nothing of the state or city. He took the oath “with purpose of mental evadion”, like all Muslims. There are NO Muslim Americans, period.
Ann Barnhardt has said many times that Islam is a Political System, not a religion. I’m glad to see you get her meaning. Muslim is a political system membership, which is why Muslim and American are not coexistent terms like African American and Welfare Queen appear to be. Oh, my… did I say that out loud?
@SouthernSage
Thank you for saying what MUST be said as perfectly as possible.
I wish I could upvote you a dozen times for your excellent clarity.
SnowieGeorgie
Jail time for the mayor and 72 virgins for officer noor.
S omalis are, like other African peoples, mere simulacrums of humanity. They can talk ( though so can some bird species) and ape the behavior of genuine human beings but only up to a point.
They are a biological dead end. No longer useful in modern society except as cannon fodder to police their own. For the rest of mankind to enjoy any kind of future this race must go extinct.
more Somalia police will solve the problems soon enough
Almost everybody on this site knows I generally give police the benefit of the doubt. However, the media is strangely silent about this incident. There is a whole lot that we don’t know about this story. They are protecting the leaders of the Democratic Communist Party of Minnesota.
BB ,if the victim was as you say then she did indeed get what she deserved.
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Strangely silent? No the term is “silent by decree”! We will never mention this “incident” again. Muslim..good, everyone else..Bad!
I clicked a link to a blog and read a few articles there night before last. I came upon a discussion of Caitlyn/Bruce Jenner’s courage award and actually WATCHED a bit of the former Olympic Champion’s courageous speechifying.
Then, I watched another transgender in progress (am thinking TIP: transgender in progress should go into TBP lexicon) lash out at Bruce/Caitlyn because TIP was not a rich white queen like Jenner and had to make her transition in slow stages.
I listened to a young nerdy type explain that while he had no problem with what Bruce Jenner believed himself to be, genetically and physically, Jenner is a man and is therefore a HE, not a SHE or a ZHE.
The rational sounding young man was told to quit acting like a spoiled little boy who couldn’t get his WAY by the TIP. The young man explained that any creature (except a very tiny percentage of Hermaphrodites that do occur in nature in most species) has chromosomes that define its gender and just because the mental state of the creature refuses to acknowledge that scientific fact does not make it false. So, bull dyke TIP (a former police officer, by the way, and built like a tank) made fun of the little boy again and the term “Because Science” died a thousand deaths.
Somebody has to call you fucktards on this one. No one deserves to be shot, no matter what their beliefs. You call this woman expendable because she teaches yoga and may be left of center? I like TBP, but fuck this mind numbing thread of mouth breathers. None of you know shit and you prove it by your idiot posts. If there was a shame-on-you button, I’d stand on the fucker and point at you. Your mama’s should have told you early on that nobody gives a shit what you think. Just because the “leave a comment” box is empty doesn’t mean you have to fill it with your mindless drool. You’re all fucking grounded. Turn off your tablets and go home.
Here, here. The schadenfreude armchairoteers would fit right in with the active – overactive – shooter cops. So•mali•cious.
Butt-hurt much?
You reap what you sow, and in this case the granola-fuckers in the Twin Cesspools have niggers shutting down Interstates, beaners shooting niggers and Homo erectus jibba-jabbas shooting pajama-lefties.
Still waiting for the first Splodey-Akhbar down in this shining example of a Strong City…
http://strongcitiesnetwork.org
They asked me to comment more. So here goes. Thank you, Penforce! Just because she might be a left leaning idiot doesn’t mean we should applaud her demise. It could have been me! The shooter had no idea of her ideology and neither do we. I like granola and yoga. So what! It means nothing, other than that I have a set of personal likes and dislikes that others here might not share. Doesn’t mean Mohammed Police Officer has a right to shoot me.
Nobody deserves to be gut shot (across the driver and through
the door) for calling 911 to report a disturbance. Noor? I don’t
care…the details of the “story” are absurd regarding that guy.
The culprits are the police chief and the mayor…clowns the
both of them. They are wanting accolades for fast tracking
folks into police training/graduation. IMHO, women do not
belong in these roles. They were flaunting their stupidity and
lack of judgement and now it has blown up in their face.
Consider their personal lives…sickening, to me anyway.
Pardon the nasty judgements; I see unprofessional behavior
squared.
I think BB’s head has swollen since Admin granted him permission to capitalize bb. I am betting he misspoke, but I’m a terrible gambler.
It’s over a year now and I’m satisfied there are no men left in Twin Falls, Idaho.
Wonder if there are any left in Minnesota.
God damn it!
Another great demonstration of why the perfect number of Muslims in America is ZERO.
How many points did they shave or advance this dim wit before like the DEA affirmative action dim wit so they could act like real police with a gun and everything . He needed to be like Barney Fife with one bullet in his top pocket but know they gave this low life border buster a Glock and set him on the public !
In the fabled words of MR. T. SOME BODY GOT TO PAY !
it was a sharia muslim killing!!!!!!! i read in another article that noor took
a sharia oath at a mpls mosque noted for ties to Somalis from mn going back to do terrorism in Somalia. i voted with my feet(moved out of mpls)
in ’92-i don’t look back.
Pinhead, “nobody deserves to be shot,no matter what their beliefs”. Wrong, some of them do. Blow me.
My wife and I refuse to use the Minneapolis-St Paul airport as there are increasing numbers of Muslims working there. Sooner or later , a bomb will go off!! Minneapolis is becoming a shithole !!
Looks like Mayor Hodges is a shoo in for reelection.