[ April 16, 2024 ]
The one, big lie that locked up a killer cop. Prosecutors have revealed how they were able to convince a jury that Minneapolis’s first Somali police officer murdered Australian yoga teacher Justine Ruszczyk Damond.
if Justine was wearing a hijab, she’d be alive. The reality is that Noor should never have been a police officer, and only was because he was Muslim. On the force since 2015, he had three complaints against him. He was described by neighbors as “jumpy,” “ill-tempered,” “strict” and “disrespectful of women and blacks.”
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Ms Damond Ruszczyk called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in the alley behind her home just minutes before she was shot in July 2017.
Hijab-wearing Mayor Betsy Hodges instituted hiring policies in the police department to prioritize the hiring of Somali Muslims. This at a time when more than 22 young men from the community had left the state to join al-Shabab in Somalia, and roughly a dozen people have left in recent years to join the jihad in Syria, including the Islamic State group. The area in Minneapolis where Muslim killer-cop was recruited and fast-tracked for police work is a notorious hot spot for jihad recruitment.
Justice for Justine has been been a long, protracted road. Minneapolis Somali-Muslim cop Mohamed Noor shot unarmed, pajama-clad Justine Damond to death at point blank range. Damond had called 911 to report a sexual assault behind her home when she heard the woman screaming for help. Mohamed Noor “shot to kill” her when she approached his squad car just minutes after she called 911.
The one lie that locked up a killer cop: Prosecutors reveal how they were able to prove that Australian yoga teacher Justine Damond was murdered
* Prosecutors revealed how they convicted Mohamed Noor, 33, of 2017 shooting
* Justine Ruszczyk Damond had called police to report possible sexual assault
* Noor fatally shot Ms Ruszczyk after he arrived on the scene in Minneapolis
* Prosecutor Amy Sweasy noted Noor’s version of events on day was a giveawayProsecutors have revealed how they were able to convince a jury that a US police officer murdered Australian yoga teacher Justine Ruszczyk Damond.
Minneapolis policeman Mohamed Noor, 33, had pleaded not guilty to murder and manslaughter after claiming he was trying to defend his partner Matthew Harrity.
But a glaring disparity between their accounts of the fatal 2017 shooting lead the jury to find that he recklessly gunned down the victim.
Ms Ruszczyk, 40, had called police to report a possible sexual assault near the home she shared with her American fiancé Don Damond.
Noor testified during his trial that after he arrived on scene he heard a loud bang on his squad car which scared him and Harrity.
Amy Sweasy said that 33-year-old Mohamed Noor (pictured) – who was given a 12-and-a-half year jail sentence – and his account of the 2017 shooting at Minneapolis was a giveaway
At the time, Ms Ruszczyk, 40 (pictured, with fiance Don Damond), had earlier called police to report a possible sexual assault near her homeNoor claimed he saw a woman at Harrity’s window raising her arm and fired his weapon to defend his partner who was unable retrieve his gun from his holster.
Harrity, however, was captured on body cam footage admitting he had his gun out of the holster before Noor, but chose not to fire.
Prosecutors Amy Sweasy said the varying accounts of the shooting proved to a jury that Noor was out to kill.
Prosecutors Amy Sweasy and Patrick Lofton revealed how they convinced a jury Noor had shot Ms Ruszczyk in 2017
She said Noor’s version of events were totally at odds with his partner Harrity.
‘First of all, Officer Harrity didn’t share that opinion,’ Ms Sweasy said. ‘He was asked that also, if he had trouble getting it (his gun) out,’ she told Nine’s A Current Affair,
‘It could not have been that Harrity’s story and Noor’s story were accurate because they were both so different, which in the end, is often what criminal trials come down to,’ Ms Sweasy said.
Prosecutor Patrick Lofton also claimed that Noor shot too quickly.
‘He didn’t appreciate the situation, to identify a target, a threat, and instead he fired without doing that – that’s at the heart of this case.’
Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter on April 30, and was sentenced to 12-and-a-half years jail.
His lawyers had pushed for the sentence be no longer than a year and a day in prison but Minnesota District Judge Kathryn Quaintance imposed a sentence that was in line with what prosecutors had requested.
‘The law does not allow license because someone is a good person,’ Quaintance said in imposing a sentence of 150 months.‘Good people sometimes do bad things.’
Noor said from the moment he pulled the trigger he felt fear and when he saw Ms Ruszczyk’s body on the ground he was horrified.
‘Seeing her there, I knew in an instant I was wrong,’ Noor said.
‘The depth of my error has only increased from that moment on. Working to save her life and watching her slip away is a feeling I can’t explain. … It leaves me sad, it leaves me numb, and feeling incredibly lonely. But none of that, none of those words capture what it truly feels like.’
Don Damond, Justine’s fiance (pictured in court Friday) read a statement saying he relieves the moment of her death every time she sees the alley behind her home
Zach Damond, the son of Justine Ruszczyk Damond’s fiance Don Damond, gets emotional while reading his victim impact statement
Minnesota District Judge Kathryn Quaintance (pictured) imposed a sentence on Noor that was in line with what prosecutors had requested
Mr Damond said in court last Friday that every time he sees the alley where she walked barefoot and in her pyjamas toward Noor’s police car he relives the moment.
‘In my mind I beg you to turn around,’ he said, speaking of a ‘lost future’ of decades filled with ‘love, family, joy and laughter’.
Mr Damond said Justine was his soul mate and he misses her ‘every day, every moment’.
‘We both lived with our hearts open, caring for others,’ he said.
Ms Ruszczyk was a dual citizen of the US and Australia living in Minnesota. She was set to marry Don Damond, who is American, a month after the shooting.
Her father, John, asked for the maximum sentence and called her killing ‘an obscene act by an agent of the state’.
‘Justine’s death has left me incomplete – it is as if I have lost a limb or a leg,’ he said in the statement read to court.
‘I have lost my daughter, I have lost those private conversations over tea.’
Noor must serve two-thirds of his sentence before he is eligible for parole.
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63 Comments
4 years ago
Only 12 years? 2/3 is only 8 years.
What a damnation.
4 years ago
Reply to
Bonnie Pupowner
A slimmer cult member that murdered an “infidel” makes for chances being pretty good that other cult inmates will treat him different so he will be a hero.
I reality “they” (humans) actually should have given him his chance at 72 virgins right off and save the court fee’s.
4 years ago
We have a perfect set of instructions to deal with such a government which no longer serves us. The Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, the US Constitution and the 2nd Amendment to enforce those instructions.
4 years ago
Reply to
Mike
Those somali groups instilled in that part of the country need to be DESTROYED! Then those churches who are really not actiung Christian BECAUSE they placed these savages there need to be destroyed as we,, They are all anti – American etc etc!!
4 years ago
This should also be black on white hate crime
4 years ago
Reply to
Thomas Faddis
It should but it wasn’t, I suspect because of “prosecutorial discretion.” When your city and its officials are all part of the political left you can kiss even handed application of the law goodbye. It is no different than Kim Foxx tossing out Jussie Smollett’s case.
4 years ago
I don’t understand why jury rejected 2nd degree murder, and why Noor did no get a max 25 years sentence!
4 years ago
When you insist on taking third world people with LOW IQ, expect more of this.. When IQ is a critical component, of an occupation, liberals have lower standards across the board to accommodate them for a position.
You should see what is hired and celebrated in healthcare…. these people are not qualified….and are incompetent. Policing, medial care and other occupations involving life and death decision, need competent people – not mentally ill or perverted Muslims who are 7th century dinosaurs.
Minneapolis To Reduce Police Psych Testing After Screening Out Too Many Minorities
By Dapandico
December 18, 2017
The city of Minneapolis may fire its police psychology evaluator because his tests screened out too many minority candidates, despite already lowering psych evaluations far below the national standard.
The July police shooting of Justine Damond triggered the city to scrutinize its psychological standards for police, with many claiming they’d become lax. Psychiatrist Thomas Gratzer has run psych testing for the Minneapolis police for the past five years, and in that time, he has eliminated four of the five tests used to determine whether a candidate is fit to be an officer, APM reported Thursday. Now, Gratzer is facing firing not for gutting his standard, but for screening out too many minorities.
Mohamed Noor, the officer who shot Damond, is Somali and was one of 200 cops approved by Gratzer’s standards over the past five years, which were already far below the national standard.
Minneapolis used a more standard five-test procedure up until 2012, and according to a 2004 federal study, those tests worked. The study found that the officers flagged as concerning by the tests were three times more likely to engage in misconduct, APM reported.
There’s no way to verify whether Noor shot Damond due to mental unfitness, but many are calling for him to be charged due to the circumstances of the encounter. Noor and his partner were responding to Damond’s call when she exited her home and approached the police car. Noor claims to have then heard a loud banging noise as someone–presumably Damond–slapped the car.
Keep reading…
https://www.weaselzippers.us/367790-minneapolis-to-reduce-police-psych-testing-after-screening-out-too-many-minorities/
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
If he is screening out too many “minorities, it must be because the are unqualified.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave
You got it.
That’s why they LOWERED the standards to accommodate LOW IQ Muslims and other “minorities”.
Just keep this map in mind and see where the invaders at the border are coming from….
They can not possible maintain our current standard of living and innovation.
http://www.perceptions.couk.com/imgs/Global-IQs-by%20Nation.png
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
WRT the PRC I don’t believe this graphic. I don’t believe for a second that the average IQ in the PRC is 105, because the vast majority of factory workers in the PRC don’t receive much more than a rudimentary education and access to higher educational programmes are highly stratified in the PRC.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
We are forced to bring our standards down to the level of these low lifes. Minorities are screened out because they are low IQ, uneducated, and stupid. Diversity is destroying our country, and that is the plan of the left. They appeal to stupid people. That is their base.
4 years ago
And the latest insanity is a proposal to form a Somali only transport police division. What could go wrong?
4 years ago
Reply to
Bonnie Pupowner
Islam-0-Nazi BULLIES willing to take over all they can for the sake of their fascist- filthy political ideology!
4 years ago
There’s a saying, “You can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl.
Well
You can take the Muslim out of the misogynistic, taqiyya culture, but you’ll never take the misogynistic, taqiyya culture out of the Muslim.
4 years ago
“The depth of my error has only increased from that moment on. Working to save her life and watching her slip away is a feeling I can’t explain. … It leaves me sad, it leaves me numb, and feeling incredibly lonely. But none of that, none of those words capture what it truly feels like.’” Yeah, yeah, yeah. He never, ever expressed any remorse immediately after the shooting. He refused to talk and was protected from moment one. Has he, or his lawyers ever tried to contact Justine’s family, to express his remorse. Of course not. So, why should anything he says now have any meaning. It’s all empty. Hes had two years to rehearse that courtroom performance to declare how ‘numb and lonely’ he is. How pathetic. Maybe the prison, or the courts can order Noor to take Christian, or Jewish classes during his tenure, if he wants an early release. No classes, he serves his full term.
4 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Yes but he needs to serve full time in the general prison population and not in quarters designed for convicted cops.
4 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Knowing his ilk Noor would just as soon murder the people in those classes. He ‘s insane and psychotic!
4 years ago
We need those immigrants according to Nancy Pelosi, the Koch brothers, and George Will.
4 years ago
Reply to
jebor
That’s got to be the most terrifying way to go.
I’d buy a ticket for that gig.
4 years ago
One Muslim fast-tracked police recruit locked up,……. more on the way !!!
4 years ago
Nowhere near enough!
She’s dead, and he’s still walking around?
Given what we know of him and his lies, he should have got the death penalty.
4 years ago
Reply to
evangeline golding
I want to hear the Americans demand his deportation after his sentence is done. Why allow a foreign murderer the right to live in the USA?
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Because Bernie Sanders wants to give him and his fellow prisoners the right to vote.
4 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Bernie Sanders needs the long sleep.
We’v got an old bastard that’s a carbon copy, called Corbyn.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Perhaps theres a small island where Bernie, Corbyn and their fellow travelers can be dumped. Then, the U.S. Navy could use said island for weapons testing.
4 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
A dose of military grade anthrax would be a fine improvement for them both or maybe seeing as they’re both commies a dose of that Russian Novichock.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
That would be excellent! But, I think it would take more than a little dose of anthrax to put out a hard core commie. Perhaps a priest, a rabbi or a minister could be sent to the island to offer some religious teachings to them. That would make them implode in short order.
4 years ago
In my opinion he never had an ounce of guilt or remorse, empathy or regret! He was as void as he was insincere. I hope he is harassed and threatened daily but once inside, he’ll drift to the side of his brothers in arms..his Muslim brotherhood and they will treat him like a hero. He’s a piece of trash and Australia applauds his ar*e being thrown in jail. Hope he rots like the garbage he is!
4 years ago
Negroes get SCARED at BIG NOISE. That is why they have no army. They end up shooting each other. In this case, this Negro shot an unarmed woman.
An unarmed woman is scary to a Negro. Especially after big noise. Frigg’n Negroes SHOOT at anything. Make big noise go away.
4 years ago
Execute this POS!
4 years ago
I don’t hear any talk of deportation of this murderer after his release. Why aren’t Americans shouting out load for this?
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
I suspect it is because most of them have not been personally affected by this and most believe it won’t happen to them.
4 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
Yes I think your right.
That exact same inertia affects people here the same way too.
Waking people from their sleep is a hard and increasingly dangerous job but we can’t give up.
4 years ago
Taking Somalis into your country is drinking arsenic or taking cyanide doing Russian roulette with revolver loaded with 6 bullets. Somalis should stay in Somalia..and butcher each other..If you inbreed like these heathen muslims from Somalia barbarism, immorality ,lawlessness is what you get..
4 years ago
He will soon be somebody’s bitch in jail. Maybe even gang bitch. Is there a male version of FGM? Castration? Here’s hoping!
4 years ago
Reply to
Omar Mohamed
Something far worse for him would be giving him a Christian cell mate who loves to proselytize.
4 years ago
I would love to hear what Noor’s partner said ‘off the record’
4 years ago
ordinary islam – creatures of the lie
4 years ago
He should have gotten the death penalty. He chose a death penalty for Ms. Ruszczyk .
4 years ago
The power of race can’t be eliminated even when spotlighted on the national news scene. It seems America has a new social class we can call “The Untouchables.” (Actually, we saw the beginning in the O.J. trial which divided the country along racial lines).
We bend over backward to embrace a Globalist idea to move n entire community to the middle of nowhere and then give them the benefits of our civilization. You can’t take a hyena into your home and call it your dog. It will always be a hyena. The same for third world people.
Why only 12.5 years? This was not a “killing” as much as it was MURDER. There should be different consequences. Because of “cultural differences,” we treat Muslims differently when it comes to crime. Rape is not a sex crime to them, but a way of belittling a person. They would rape a man as well, just to show him who is the superior one.
Let’s all get on the same page. A rape that happens in New York should be punished the same way it would be if done in Minneapolis, but it isn’t if the accused is a Muslim. The punishment for an “honor killing” is not the same as a “drive-by shooting killer.” The main difference is our deference to Islam, and that is un-American.
I hope Noor gets into the roughest prison there is. I hope they put him in an area where White Supremacists reign. And I hope he meets “Justice,” who will enlarge his anal orifice.
4 years ago
So where were the riots? If the media have read that a White cop kills a Black woman and forget the court case.
Here it is almost weak enough of a sentence that it could be taken as a “token punishment” so as to not “anger” the slimmers not yet discovered or caught hiding in their “moderate stage” .
4 years ago
There’s more to being a cop than wearing the gun and badge, and collecting the pay. You also have to know that witnesses should not be shot. Politicians skip over that detail when they select someone purely on what they look like.
4 years ago
Now, we have the beginning of a very long hot summer of east African style retribution, ONLY ONE DAY AFTER THE COURT HEARING, AND the ‘SENTENCING’, and you can bet that we have more of this coming:
‘2 Somali men in a vehicle attempt to run over 6 pedestrians in Ilhan Omar’s district’.
Updated: 21 hours ago
According to Downtown Minneapolis Crime Watch & Information; law enforcement reportedly witnessed 2 Somali men in a vehicle attempt to run over 6 pedestrians on a sidewalk in Downtown Minneapolis 6/8/19. This is a developing story’.
4 years ago
Why is this country bringing in America-hating people like this? They bring only hate, crime
and misery to our country. How can we start deporting them ASAP? Perhaps we can start with
ilhan omen?
This man in the article (noor) is completely unfit to be a law enforcement employee.
4 years ago
8-12 years is not justice. He deserves to die.
