@dkmich This would have never happened had he not fired his shotgun over his partner point blank into a woman wearing a bathrobe and armed with a cell phone, who only wanted to do her duty and report a possible crime in her neighborhood.

Her stepson-to-be called it right: "America sucks."

Noor, who joined the Minneapolis Police in March 2015, has had three complaints made against him in two years - including a lawsuit.
Two are from 2017 and one from 2016 is closed and according to Lou Raguse of Kare 11 is marked 'not to be made public'.

The lawsuit stems from a police call on May 25, 2017, when Noor and two other officers took a woman to hospital and she claimed that they carried out false imprisonment, assault and battery.
According to the ongoing lawsuit, the woman claimed that Noor 'grabbed her right wrist and upper arm' when moving her.

Last year, Mayor Hodges wrote on her Facebook page that she 'wanted to take a moment to recognize Officer Mohamed Boor, the newest Somali officer in the Minneapolis Police Department.
'Officer Noor has been assigned to the 5th Precinct, where his arrival has been highly celebrated, particularly by the Somali community in and around Karmel Mall.'

His lawyer's statement in full is also printed in this article.

'Officer Noor extends his condolences to the family and anyone else who has been touched by this event. He takes their loss seriously and keeps them in his daily thoughts and prayers,' the statement read.

'He came to the United States at a young age and is thankful to have had so many opportunities. He takes these events very seriously because, for him, being a police officer is a calling.

'He joined the police force to serve the community and to protect the people he serves. Officer Noor is a caring person with a family he loves and he empathizes with the loss others are experiencing.

'The current environment for police is difficult, but Officer Noor accepts this as part of his calling. We would like to say more, and will in the future.

'At this time, however, there are several investigations ongoing and Officer Noor wants to respect the privacy to the family and asks the same in return during this difficult period.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4703892/Police-officer-shot-Just...

@dkmich

I can only say it again, BLM made a huge strategy mistake imo when they turned the injustice of the justice system into a black issue, e.g. ALM vs BLM. I do not dispute that blacks, native Americans, and the mentally ill are disproportionately represented in the numbers, but raw numbers and this story show white people are not protected by the color of their skin.

And it does BLM (honest ones really fighting for the rights of black people) no good whatsoever to acquire the reputation of being Hillary Clinton's astroturf disrupters, but BLM definitely has that reputation today. And that means being ignored and despised -- exactly what activists against police abuses don't need at all!

When you take on the state's militarized policing system, you need all of the allies you can get. More people in the same boat the better.

Absolutely!

BLM made a huge strategy mistake imo when they turned the injustice of the justice system into a black issue, e.g. ALM vs BLM. I do not dispute that blacks, native Americans, and the mentally ill are disproportionately represented in the numbers, but raw numbers and this story show white people are not protected by the color of their skin. When you take on the state's militarized policing system, you need all of the allies you can get. More people in the same boat the better.

@dkmich it's amazing how the Democratic party "pre-divides and conquers" itself.

BLM made a huge strategy mistake imo when they turned the injustice of the justice system into a black issue, e.g. ALM vs BLM. I do not dispute that blacks, native Americans, and the mentally ill are disproportionately represented in the numbers, but raw numbers and this story show white people are not protected by the color of their skin. When you take on the state's militarized policing system, you need all of the allies you can get. More people in the same boat the better.

@UntimelyRippd

Progress!!

@gjohnsit

In fact my son disputes BLM. To support his point he sent me some actual research papers which all came to the same conclusion. Police definitely engage with bias towards minority communities but that bias becomes less the higher degree of force involved. So by the time you get to shootings there are no differences that can't be factored out reasonably.

None of those papers were what you'd call "propaganda in support of police". All of them concluded that there were substantial problems with policing minority communities but those problems were more at the "stop and frisk" level then the shooting level.

So BLM not only picked the wrong identity but also the wrong metric.

In today's day and age one might wonder why it isn't an automatic crime for police to kill a civilian without either body or dash cam footage -- any civilian.

People surprised by white people getting gunned down by cops haven't been paying attention.

@Steve15

The brazen hussy infidel!

Noor is a Somali Muslim. This seems to be missing from accounts of the incident. I live in Minneapolis so I get local coverage. I leave it to others to make their own judgement. I am wondering if there is a connection to possible outside influence on Noor.

@Steve15 Noor is apparently a dumbass with poor or no training. A shotgun from the passenger seat? Fucking hell. His ethnicity and religion don't concern me. You, however, seem concerned.

Noor is a Somali Muslim. This seems to be missing from accounts of the incident. I live in Minneapolis so I get local coverage. I leave it to others to make their own judgement. I am wondering if there is a connection to possible outside influence on Noor.