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.... yeah, I've got nothing on this? Random guess, she was hysterical and he shot her because reasons....

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WTF Minnesota?
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On Saturday evening Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor shot Justine Damond in the alley behind her home in south Minneapolis.
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Damond is said by her fiancé to have called the police to investigate a possible sexual assault in progress outside their home. She emerged in her pajamas to speak to the arriving officers. No one has yet offered any possible explanation for Ms. Damond’s shooting.
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Um... He was in the passenger seat of the cruiser, she was on the driver's side talking to his partner when he leaned over and shot her multiple times.

Say what?

Really curious what the partner has to say. Interesting there's been a news blackout on this case - not everyone is equal before the law. Or the press, or statements to said press from government officials.

This one really stinks and I can't see it ending well.
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Scuttlebutt seems to have it that Ofc. Noor is denying any sort of negligent discharge, so unless he's going to argue that he had a 'runaway gun' (which I've seen in a semi-auto pistol with a broken sear, but it requires the trigger to be pulled first), he would have to argue that he somehow identified Ms. Damond as a threat.

I would think that would be a tough argument to make, since his partner, in the driver's seat, was literally at bad breath distance and didn't seem to perceive any threat.

Of course, the victim is white and the officer is black, so the usual BLM suspects will ignore it. In fact, since the officer in question is of a double (or triple) favored "protected class (black Somali immigrant, and presumably Muslim), I'm going to guess that the powers that be will ignore it as much as possible. The mayor of Minneapolis is already being notably silent.

It is also worth noting that the officer has two pending complaints against him. And Tamara points out another warning sign:
No, big red flag is that he was a grown man with a college degree and an apparently reasonably successful career in property management who decided, in his thirties, to drop it all to go be the police. There are two kinds of people who do that, and one is a disaster waiting to happen.

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This one seems like big bullshit. Was the ossifer scared of a beautiful woman? Then I guess it is ok according to other cases.
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This shit is epidemic in Minnesota in recent months. Many similar cases.

Of course, NPR and the Aussie press are trying to make it a gun control issue. Because of a wrongdul shooting by a cop. Advance the narrative at all cost.

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She was from Oz, he wasn't(Somalia?). I can hear her saying something that no one would think unusual Down Under, but would be considered racist in either Somalia or here. Which may point to anger management issues. :?
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Having legitimate,grounded and reasonable fears from time to time is one thing that helps keep you alive in that job. This scaredy cat kinda unreasonable fear shit has gotta stop. On a side note, one time I was driving the patrol car while still on probation when my FTO decided to check my revolver as he was seated in the passenger seat. He opened the cylinder and shook out the .357 mag shells and set them on the console. Then he took aim between his feet at the floor and pulled the trigger. The second time he did that it went off since he had only shaken out 5 of the 6 shells. Windows were up. Talk about making my ears ring! The bullet went through the floor, hit the concrete and bounced up, killing the front tire. Just then the radio called to send us somewhere. He got some days off for that one.
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The fact they didn't turn on their body cams sure seems to give a premeditated feel to this to me.
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