Chief Harteau was forced to resign by Mayor Betsy Hodges who has crossed horns with Harteau in the past. When is Hodges going to resign?
Think about it — no talk of firing Mohamed Noor and Mayor Hodges who forced Noor in stays. They have the sacrificial lamb
Have a contest. What would it take to fire a Somali Muslim Cop in Minneapolis?
Another interesting angle in this story is the defense of Noor from cop haters and BLM ‘activists”:
Nekima Levy-Pounds, a civil rights lawyer and activist running for mayor of Minneapolis, said Chief Harteau “needed to be fired.” Ms. Levy-Pounds said it had been “a slap in the face to people of color” that the chief spoke out about the death of Ms. Damond, who was white, after defending officers involved in past shootings of black people.
“She is attempting to paint this as an isolated case based on one officer’s poor judgment as opposed to a systemic pattern,” Ms. Levy-Pounds said.
They are defending this killer-cop’s cold blooded murder as an “officer’s poor judgment.” But when Officer Darren Wilson was fighting for his life from an attacker, they burned down Ferguson.
Minneapolis police chief resigns following fatal shooting of Australian woman
Fox News, d July 21, 2017 (thanks to Scott);
The Minneapolis police chief resigned on Friday in the wake of the fatal shooting of an Australian woman by a police officer on July 15.
Chief Janee Harteau resigned a day after making her initial remarks on the death of 40-year-old Justine Damond.
Damond was fatally shot on Saturday by an officer after responding to her 911 call about a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her house.
Minneapolis Police Chief Forced Out After Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman
NY TImes:
By MITCH SMITHJuly 21, 2017
The Minneapolis police chief, Janee Harteau, resigned on Friday at the mayor’s request, less than a week after one of the city’s officers fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman who had called 911 for help.
Mayor Betsy Hodges said in a statement that “I’ve lost confidence in the chief’s ability to lead us further” and that “it is clear that she has lost the confidence of the people of Minneapolis as well.”
The fatal shooting of the Australian, Justine Damond, last weekend by Officer Mohamed Noor led to outpourings of grief in Minnesota and outrage in Ms. Damond’s home country, where the prime minister has condemned the shooting and Ms. Damond’s family members have expressed frustration with how little they have been told about what happened.
Last Saturday, Ms. Damond, 40, called 911 twice to report a possible sexual assault near her home. Officer Noor and his partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, arrived at the scene in a dark alley several minutes later. Officer Harrity told state investigators that he had been startled by a loud noise just before Ms. Damond approached their cruiser. Officer Noor then shot her through the open window.
Officer Noor has declined to speak with investigators, and the authorities have provided no explanation for why he shot Ms. Damond. Neither Officer Noor nor his partner had turned on their body cameras.
Chief Harteau, a 30-year veteran of the Minneapolis police force, said in a statement that “the recent incidents do not reflect the training and procedures we’ve developed as a department.”“I’ve decided I am willing to step aside to let a fresh set of leadership eyes see what more can be done for the M.P.D. to be the very best it can be,” Chief Harteau said. “The city of Minneapolis deserves the very best.”
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Where’s justice for Justine?
There won’t be an,she is white.
Mayor Betsy has LOST CONFIDENCE in the Chief of Police?
Wow, that is truly ironic.
I believe in instances such as this, judgement should be withheld until the facts come out, but after a Muslim/Somali police office killed a woman apparently from the safety of his car and apparently for no reason, the Mayor’s big concern is that the Islamic community might be blamed.
This woman is an idiot and anyone who hasn’t lost confidence in her at this point is also an idiot… or a Muslim.
This woman is not an idiot.She knows what she is doing.This woman is a criminal.Should be shot.
How about a compromise position… a criminal idiot.
Have you listened to her imbecilic drivelings? Believe me, she might be quite as idiotic as immediately apparent, but she is still an idiot and an unprincipled idiot at that. She is more concerned about not upsetting the Somali community, than she is the disgraceful death of Justine Damond and the disgusting behaviour of Constable Noor who, it’s evident, she’d like to protect. Hopefully the Prime Minister of Australia will continue demanding a decent, rational, logical explanation – and if matters continue in this idiotic manner Trump will get involved.
Notice those three cops in the photo are wearing that hard look you would expect to see if they were at a crime scene sizing up a suspect.
Yes, look at the cops in the photo and remind yourself of the Keystone cops. The word ‘bright’ doesn’t exactly come to mind and neither does when looking at and listening to dimwit Bestsy Hodges. Would someone inform me: ‘Is the standard of education in Minnesota rather low and the population generally gifted with half a brain?’
The Left/liberal Mayor who promoted the idea of recruiting this jihadi officer must also go.
The Left/liberal Loons even allow their women/Girls to be assaulted, molested, gang raped , murdered http://bit.ly/2tTQW4b
..as its “religious” practice of muslims and its Halal (approved) as per allah ! So police do not even register case and mock the victims.
when you allow criminal acts under “religious” right such a country will turn into Islamic hellhole like the 57 islamic states.
The left/Liberal who promoted the idea of recruiting this jihadi officer should be shot.
Actually ALL leftards responsible should pay and in blood if it comes to that.
Hey Nevika Levy Pounds the Aussies should have an open season on the Yanks.How would this grab you?
Justice for Justine….deport Noor.
Hang him!
if you deport, it better be in a body-bag…
Deport… so he can join ISIS and do it again. Deep hole for this scum..
The police chief and the mayor both have to go. The chief is not a leader, the mayor is a bigot.
and that cop is a …muslim and that is reason enough for his ‘removal”. I am curious about the white cops on that force and their view of all this….brother officer or muslim scumbag?
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I understand your fury surrounding this event and hate whatever happened myself.However,we will be doing better if we stick to the wrong action and don’t mention the religious denomination.Why? there is a sympathy wave generated in their favour and do you want that?Just read my response below and read about the hijaab donning senator elsewhere.
Anybody who has sympathy for this has self-identified as the enemy…
You beat me – congrats!
Another operative of the Democrat-Communist-Islamic Terrorist Organization responds.
Thanks,Robert Kahicke. Can you explain in detail?
You already have!
Don’t you understand what these muslim swine are doing in Europe and other areas including the U.S.A. (end of conversation)
He is probably more aware than you. He has been there, talked to the people who live with it. . He is NOT sympathising or excusing Muslim depravity. He is stating the fact that the moment someone mentions the I or M words, defensive barriers go up, conversations and reactions become guarded, truth becomes PC- speak. Whilst most will agree Noor’s actions were illegal, the moment his ethnicity or religion is raised, attitudes change or are hidden. I find that here in UK, too. Simba and I have communicated on other sites, so I feel I understand what he means. Read his post carefully. He agrees with us. One of our worries is the many Western women who are throwing themselves at Muslim men, in marriage and out. Ordinary folk like us cannot understand this. Hardly sympathetic, you agree ? The US has not gone down this road ,yet. In Europe ordinary people are being prosecuted for telling the truth. Real Orwellian stuff. 70 year old told of immigrants setting cars alight, defecating and urinating in the street where he lives–on FB. He was fined heavily for hate speech. This is why the population is so cowed. This is what Simba is referring to, in part. If the name had been Fred instead of Simba, would your reactions have been the same ?
The sympathy wave is growing as well as double standard accusations. This woman was reporting a crime-the Mother Teresa of the Neighborhood. Castile has three convictions and was illegally packing. (BTW- I think the cop in that case screwed up as well). Harder to be sympathetic. Would actually be better in the case if cop was white Muslim. When this is over left will make it about gun control and racism. Noor will be seen as victim even though Minneapolis now has a black Chief. Mayor and Old Chief gone. A cyclist who has video of part of it just was interviewed. It’s interesting that he was interviewed and then she’s (Chief) fired quickly.
That is one of the reasons I think we should not mention any perpetrator’s ethnicity and religion when we are levelling charges.We do get angry and carried away.However,the moment we talk of Muslim cop,from another ethnicity ,it is dubbed Islamophobia.Marine Le Pen ,Geert Wilders lose elections due to this.Most natives agree( though quietly) but want to be seen fair and open minded so vote for the so called “secular”.I have been saying this for long.Never attack the religious denomination,find out some wrong doing or weaknesses and launch campaign against that.Automatically many things coming together without overtly appearing unfair.We attack their ethnicity and religion(?) and they attract a sympathy wave and get voted.
Frankly, Simba, your comment about why Le Pen and Geert Wilders lose elections is pure nonsense. They mention ethnicity and religion because Islam and Muslims are the massive factor creating a mess in France and Holland. French and Dutch citizens are being murdered and raped by bloody bastard Muslims who are transforming these societies into the mess that are Islamic societies where brutal sharia prevails. The primary reason Le Pen and Wilders lose election is the liberal, values-devoid, politically correct nature of Western European society – with North American society fast heading the same way! P.C. dishonesty and stupidity is gripping Western society like a plague.
Further, while I agree with you that in the Noor case it would be better to focus on the facts, i.e. that for no good reason this officer shot multiple times and killed an innocent woman in her pyjamas. Talk of people ‘hearing a loud noise’ is a pathetic excuse for a police constable shooting an unarmed woman who happened to be the 911 caller. Obviously the loud noise was not connected to this women and, having done military service, I will point out that if ‘a loud noise’ causes this man to lose his head and act irrationally, then he is not fit for police duty.
What you’ve been “saying for a long time” ignores that Muslims have been behaving with astounding savagery all over the world, their “religious denomination” having a huge bearing on their disgusting behaviour because the Qur’an and other teachings encourage the violence we are seeing. To ignore this is to ignore the elephant in the room.
Thanks,Rob Porter for your reply.I have been touring the continent and witnessing what’s happening.It’s shocking to note that people consider speaking the truth about Islam and what havoc it’s wreaked all along as something akin to being a bigot and proves counterpruductive.Just note even in the U.S., how the Arizona senator Ms.Abboud was vilified online and the response from people including Senator Flake .in her support.She ,as a public figure,who wishes to represent a state,should have projected a secular image ( without the hijaab),and yet no one raises any objection. However, I am fully aware of what Islam has been up to throughout history.It’s not something new.Now they have been able to attract women from Europe and the U.S,Russia and Ukraine to the UAE,N.African nations,Turkey.Very subtle, uncontrollable invasion.There is nothing that can be done here.
The mayor is too dumb to be a bigot… she’s an idiot.
The Chief was forced to hire this criminal.
“BLUE LIVES MATTER”
“… for the M.P.D. to be the very best it can be”. Hollow words indeed. It seem that the M.P.D., the mayor and this city’s council are a group of pitifully stupid individuals who cannot see what is obvious,so ruled are they by p.c. and political influences. Look at the photo above and it says it all, this city is gifted with some really knuckle-headed imbeciles.
minneapolis, berkeley all over again.
Its like a disease. Protect the guilty and blame the innocent.
In the upside down world of progressives, he is the victim. Now get with the programme, Rob !
Exactly, they got rid of the chief yet the murdering muzzie cop still has a job and freedom!
And getting paid full salary
They should cut that and make him reimburse the city for all the trouble he has caused of course that should be along with a prison sentence that he most likely not have to serve !
So the lefty Mayor is saying that if the Police Chief had done her job correctly,
the shooting death of Justine Damond would not have happened? That she
“has lost confidence in the Chief’s ability to lead”.
Chief Harteau has now become the scapegoat for everyone to focus their
outrage on – while she leaves the department of her own accord after thirty
years with her full pension rights intact. A win-win for all concerned,
including the shooter Noor who remains on paid leave.
Noor thinks he is the scapegoat. The only remark that I have read that he has made to friends and family is that he has been thrown under the bus.
That’s pretty typical. He commits the crime, yet he’s the victim being picked on. How DARE those racists blame him for killing an infidel.
When Mayor Hodges talks about losing confidence in the police chief as well as the citizens of Minneapolis sharing that sentiment, she could have just as easily been talking about herself. Probably more so.
The whole political system needs to be cleaned out and pushed into the cesspit it has become. Then cement it in so that it won’t stink anymore.
They were frank with each other. One was Frank one night and the other was Frank the next.
The Mayor has sported hijaab while visiting the Muslim community.Is there such a need?There is no such rule at all.The German Defence Minister Ms.Ursula von der Leyen had refused to cover head even in Saudi Arabia.Appeasement is always part of “submission” as the term Islam means.No public official should be seen as NOT being secular.There should be no symbol of any religion exhibited by a public official while visiting a particular religious community.One just performs one’s excutive/administrative role.Even the Arizona Senate Candidate Ms. Deedra Abboud is always shown wearing a hijaab.No matter what religion one observed initially or later,secular image has to be maintained by a public official.After all religion is a private matter and not something that needs to be declared.Islam does not mandate wearing hijaab,otherwise all Muslim women would be wearing one.Choice also should be wisely exercised and not for the sake of making a staement out of it.Even Ms.Huma Abedin did not wear one. Resignation of any other officer,without any departmental ,punitive action being taken against the erring officer will just be cosmetic and a futile sacrifice.Transfer or suspension of the officer involved in the homicide is another slap in the face of the citizens.No one will know exactly why the Chief resigned although it’s sated that it was over the initial remarks.Many times a person,irrespective of the rank,can’t lie or support and protect the guilty and is so sacrificed.
You are so right, Simba. Women SHOULD take a stand and oppose what is essentially a symbol of male domination and female inferiority – especially women in positions of power. British PM has been seen with her head covered when meeting Muslim groups, yet ordinary people like Air France flight attendants took a stand and refused to fly to Iran when that country insisted on them wearing Islamic head coverings.
Thanks,Jeremy Steering.
I have seen the neo-converts and feminists “choosing” this domination imposed on them.Love for some handsome ethnic man is a very powerful transformer.
The entire female cohort of Swedish ministers recently adopted such dress when on a parliamentary trip to Iran. As did Australia’s own Foreign Minister, also when in Iran. Marine le Pen, on the other hand, refused point blank to wear a head covering, resulting in the planned meeting not going ahead. Seems like western women accommodate female submission when they visit other countries where this is the norm, yet don’t expect the same of visitors to their own countries. They’re just lying down and taking it, no wonder Muslims see westerners as weak.
Thanks Overit for replying.They become especially weak when they fall in love with Muslims.Hence,I mentioned neo-converts.Marine le Pen,sadly,has been not supported by her own.
Politicians would be hookers if they got the same power and money.
Thanks,Scott Wallace.Sad isn’t it? If this senator becomes a governor,she might provide a role model for many natives to convert ,many Muslims to aspire for high office and everyon will foolishly believe integration is achieved.It’s her decision to convert and wear a hijaab but she was born in an American,Christian family,she could have maintained her westernized attire intact.Why just “submit” oneself to this extent? She may be very happy with her Muslim husband and I will offer my best wishes for her happily married status as well as her socio political mission but there was no need to “confirm” to a pattern.That’s what I find disconcerting since that sucks many insecure women growing up in a single parent family into another religion.What has another religion got to do with stability?Why your own religion and people following the same can’t provide you with that same stability?That’s another issue all of us should ponder when we look at the high rate of divorces.Why are our people so frivolous?There is nothing more comforting in another religion since all have the same spiritual basis.So I am touching upon a different issue here as well.
I’m sure Shillariah Clinton does lap dances for muslum sheikhs if they put enough money on the table (nothing less than $1000 denominations), play the right music and serve up enough fermented camel urine cocktails.
The brutal fact is that in 21st century “multicultural” America the people who are normally foaming at the mouth and jumping up and down after a police killing are silent, because the victim, despite being an innocent woman, is white and a Westerner. The killer, on the other hand, is black AND Muslim, so the woman is of no importance, but there will be no silence from activists like Black Lives Matter and CAIR, who will make it a race and religion issue should a prosecution be brought. Wake up, America, before it’s too late.
who in their right mind would consider letting a Somali muslim become a police officer in any Western country?…for islam all non-muslims are ‘infidels’ (inferior)
Somali young men with guns? Hey, I saw Blackhawk Down.
The Mayor is a dhimmi and should be treated as such.
There really is no cure for stupid.
White life matters!!!, Hands up, Don’t Shoot.
I live in Minneapolis Mn ..22 years …White Male ..Scottish Ancestry …5th generation American Citizen…you need to know this because my comment is severe and will be labeled Islamaphobic / Bigot ..
30 year Military Veteran USMC…US Navy..Contractor …
There are over 280,000 Somali,s in Mn …a ton of them live in Minneapolis..
Minneapolis is a Sanctuary City …Submitted to Islam ..long ago..
Police Chief always practiced appeasement or Submission to Islam demands from the CAIR / Al Farooq Imams ..etc..So does the Mayor and Governor…(He is scared to death of Islam..).
Minnesota as a state is running scared of these animals ..Somalia has been a war zone for over 40 years..
Noor should have never been allowed to be a police officer in the first place..He was fast tracked into the job by Harteau who was seeking the blessing of the Somali / CAIR community in Minneapolis..
ISLAM and America will never co exist …period…History proves that Islam never changes or assimilates …YOU CHANGE AND Embrace Islam or else…Europe is gone …wiped out..just a shell of what it used to be ..Women raped in broad daylight …etc…
America is close behind..In Minnesota its hands off the Muslims ..They are protected across the board..
Mayor Hodges set up the first 1 800 hot line in America …designed for them to call and complain about the least little thing they thought was disrespectful of them or their Civil Jihad that is prevalent here .
The stupid trust fund red diaper baby ( Mark Dayton ) Governor has made the statement in public that Islam is here to stay in MN ..also submitting to their demands also…so if you do not like it he suggests that you leave Minnesota and find more suitable digs …
We are rapidly loosing our Constitutional freedoms here in America…especially freedom of speech …
Thomas Jefferson said long ago Freedom is scared …to remain free from oppression and abuse we must remain vigilant …He also said Freedom is won from the end of a gun barrel …because nothing else will work..
I also believe the we the people are on the edge of Civil War…..Good Luck …God Bless America..
Semper-Fi…
100% right in every respect, Benny. Multiculturalism only works when different cultures are willing to co-exist and respect each other: Islam and the West are incompatible because it forbids this co-existence and respect, believes in its total superiority, and at its very core is the agenda to force itself on every society on the planet. What is unforgiveable is that this became very clear decades ago, but no government, left or right, had the courage to nip it in the bud and admit that multiculturalism was not just a failure, but catastrophic for the host country and its indigenous people.
Chief Harteau was the only one making a clear , incisive condemnation of this officer’s shooting of Justine Damon, and you condemn her because she is gay ?? No wonder Islam is winning without bloodshed in the US. Your mindset is so similar.
She was a scapegoat and fought the affirmative action that is giving unqualified Somalis a badge and a gun.
There was me, hoping the internet would produce a race of real thinkers, with evidential argument and world wide net wisdom at their fingertips ! But obviously there are bound to be exceptions. Thank you for proving that point.
Mohammadans and Sodomites are both a sicknesss on the West.
Minneapolis Dhimmi Mayor Betsey Hodges is using former Police Chief Janee Harteau as a scapegoat to divert attention for her own groveling before the Muslim barbarians.
Here are some pictures of Mayor Hodges in hijabs.
Mayor Hodges is trying to cover up the cozy relationship the Marxist Democratic party of Minnesota has with Somali Muslim street gangs.
So Islam comes above LGTB.
LGBT above feminazis.
Pecking order getting interesting.
You are right. It appears the Mohammadans are now atop the ‘Victim’ pyramid.
The Liberals have yet to figure out that Political Correctness has a pecking order.
One can not be both pro-Islam and a Feminist unless one is a liar like Linda Sarsour who is totally detached from reality.
Why Islam is so sacrosanct to the Cultural Marxists escapes my understanding.
So shooting unarmed pajama-clad females as they talk to police is NOT part of the police training in Minneapolis. At least that was cleared up. The mayor is an idiot who brings shame to the city. Cop Noor must be fired and indicted.
I will say this again. Minneapolis’ real problem will not suddenly disappear with the removal of these brain-dead leaders. They are only symptoms of a much deeper and systemic problem.
Liberalism and Muslim sympathizers. Who will replace them? More liberals and Muslim sympathizers. Just watch.
This is the result of allowing muslim swine into our country. The shooter was whelped from a Swine who fornicated with a Goat and the best part of him dripped down the Goat’s leg. The Defendant should be tried, convicted, executed and embalmed with pigs blood. PERIOD
Black with latino last name- could just be interim.
Apparently the voters of minnepulis are every bit as pliable as the mayor and her assorted minions. Instead of dealing with the crime, the city or minneapolis is too busy being apologists for somali muslims, who are even stupider than elected democrats.
As Douglas Murray says in his wonderful book “The Strange Death of Europe” left liberal political leaders always go for the secondary issue and ignore the primary. This is a classic case.
A woman in her pyjamas is obviously murdered by a Somali cop (who it transpires is under investigation for mistreating a white woman) but the Mayor and her cronies make the feelings of the Somali community the priority.
When was there any rioting by American or British people following a muslim attack? – Never.
We see this all the time in England. The Manchester bomb outrage by a Moroccan muslim immediately resulted in the arrest of Tweeters who said bad things about muslims. The Manchester police chief’s immediate response to the news was to make a statement that there must be no ‘hate crimes’ against the ‘innocent’ muslims of Manchester.
In light of this incident, people will feel less likely to report crimes. I belong to a Crime Watch group and we have enough trouble just interesting people to keep their eyes pealed for suspicious activity in their neighbourhoods and on their farms. With these sorts of cops being hired merely for their skin colour and religion, this will be a harder task.