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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEx-cop sentenced to 12.5 years for killing of Australian woman
A former Minneapolis police officer was sentenced Friday to 12 years and six months in prison for the fatal shooting of an unarmed Australian woman who had been trying to report a crime.
Mohamed Noor, 33, was convicted in April of second-degree manslaughter and third-degree murder in the 2017 death of Justine Damond, in a case that shocked the Midwestern city and sparked outrage in the victims home country.
Noor was responding to her report of a possible sexual assault in an alley in Minneapolis.
At sentencing Noor told the judge of his horror over learning he had shot an innocent woman.
Mohamed Noor, 33, was convicted in April of second-degree manslaughter and third-degree murder in the 2017 death of Justine Damond, in a case that shocked the Midwestern city and sparked outrage in the victims home country.
Noor was responding to her report of a possible sexual assault in an alley in Minneapolis.
At sentencing Noor told the judge of his horror over learning he had shot an innocent woman.
[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/ex-cop-sentenced-to-12-5-years-for-killing-of-australian-woman/|
Black cop kills white woman.... LOCK HIM UP.
White cop kills anyone of colour he fancies - CRICKETS....
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Ex-cop sentenced to 12.5 years for killing of Australian woman (Original Post)
Soph0571
Jun 2019
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12 years is a disgrace. He murdered this woman in cold blood while she was wearing a bath robe
ProgressiveOp
Jun 2019
#1
To be fair to the cop: she did look like a person of color in the dark. A white cops shoots ...
marble falls
Jun 2019
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ProgressiveOp
(10 posts)1. 12 years is a disgrace. He murdered this woman in cold blood while she was wearing a bath robe
They should bury him under the jail
marble falls
(57,077 posts)2. To be fair to the cop: she did look like a person of color in the dark. A white cops shoots ...
a teenager in Chicago 16 times pausing to reload while the kid is motionless on the pavement and he gets less than five years. Did I forget to mention the kid was a person of color?
Or that the Minneapolis cop was a person of color?
I'm glad police are starting to e charged in these events. But there still seems to be a blanket of white male privilege involved.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. So much Polotics behind this case
and it will be exposed down the road.