On Monday, multiple media outlets named Mohamed Noor as the officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman in the city’s popular Fulton neighborhood over the weekend, an incident that has grabbed global attention and thrust Minneapolis into yet another uproar over police violence.
Officials have not publicly confirmed the officer’s name.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner announced Monday night that Damond – identified by her birth name Justine Ruszczyk – died from a gunshot found to the abdomen and ruled the death a homicide. She was set to marry her American fiance Don Damond next month, and had already been using his last name.
Witnesses at the scene Saturday night said that the officer who fired his gun appeared to be Somali, Jamal said, so he and others in the community began contacting all the Somalis in the department. They knew the shooting took place in the fifth precinct, where Noor is the only Somali officer.
Already, hateful posts criticizing Islam and sharia law are filling social media in response to the police shooting. Several far-right blogs featured sensational headlines that blamed the officer’s ethnicity, not his training, for the deadly use of force.
Other Somali officers in the police department are “nervous,” Jamal said.
“They’re not talking at all,” he said. “You can feel the pressure, because you know, the difference now is ‘one of you guys did it.’
“The fact that the police involved in the shooting is Somali makes it a different matter,” he said.
Mohamud Noor, who is not related to the officer, is also a city council candidate. He and others in the Somali community have protested other police shootings in the Twin Cities region along with Black Lives Matter, but this one “changes the narrative,” he said. Usually, they are protesting the death of black men at the hands of police, he said. Now it is a white woman reportedly shot by a black officer.
He hopes the conversation will focus on police reform, not racial stereotypes.
“This is the time to bring people together,” he said. “We have so many questions. What happened? Why were the body cameras off?”
The two officers involved did not turn on their body cameras, authorities said. The police car’s dash camera did not capture the incident, either.
Officer Noor joined the force in 2015 and completed his field training just over a year ago, according to a May 2016 city bulletin welcoming him to the fifth precinct. The officer graduated from Augsburg College, a Lutheran school in Minneapolis, with a degree in economics and business administration, according to the posting. He worked in real estate in Minneapolis and St. Louis before becoming an officer.
Noor has had two complaints filed against him during his brief tenure with the police department, reported the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Two remain open and a third was closed without discipline, according to the newspaper.
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Why do you bother printing this piece of manure by the Washington Compost? This is straight out of the Palestinian playbook. Always turn the murderer/terrorist into the “victim”! Totally ignore the innocent lady who was brutally murdered. Ignore HER grieving family and loved ones. Let’s concentrate only on the vile filthy murderer and his family! We must be “concerned” about “backlash”. The Thought Police in the hate crimes unit, have commanded us to be ever so concerned and “sensitive” to every lowlife scum who commits a murder or serious crime! IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT RACE!!! Who cares about the poor innocent victim who had their life snuffed out? Hey IDIOTS, if you are truly so “concerned” about this fake backlash crap, DON’T COMMIT THE CRIMES!!!
I wonder if he yelled “Alla Hu Akhbar” before he shot her. Nobody is saying why he shot her in the first place.
I found this to be the most disturbing comment in this news article:
“Mohamud Noor, who is not related to the officer, is also a city council candidate. He and others in the Somali community have protested other police shootings in the Twin Cities region along with Black Lives Matter, but this one “changes the narrative,” he said. Usually, they are protesting the death of black men at the hands of police, he said. Now it is a white woman reportedly shot by a black officer.
He hopes the conversation will focus on police reform, not racial stereotypes.”
So Mr. Noor wants to have his cake and eat it too! I can assure you, that if the victim was black and the shooter a white cop, he wouldn’t be saying “let’s focus on police reform, not race”. He would holding this up as another example of institutional racism of US law enforcement. He also admits that he marches with BLM, a virulently anti-white and anti-Israel organization.
My question is: why isn’t it valid to question the motivations of this cop (ie. Islamic targetting or anti-white racism) why allowing BLM style criticism of law enforcement?
Why was the camera turned off? Why aren’t police officers punished for that? What’s the point of having cameras if they are not required to keep them on? You know the cops will lie. That’s what they do. Lie!!!