Matthew Knott – The Sydney Morning Herald Sept 16, 2021
Minnesota’s highest court has overturned the murder conviction of a former police officer who fatally shot Australian woman Justine Ruszczyk Damond in Minneapolis in 2017.
In a shock decision, the Minnesota Supreme Court said the murder charge for Mohamed Noor did not fit the circumstances in the case.
Noor was the first police officer in the state’s history to be found guilty of murder for killing a civilian.
His conviction was followed by a 22-and-half year sentence for Derek Chauvin, the white Minneapolis police officer who was found guilty of murdering black man George Floyd by pressing his knee into his neck for almost 10 minutes.
After a trial that captivated the midwestern state in 2019, Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for shooting Damond, a dual US-Australian citizen, after she called police to report a possible sexual assault behind her home.
He was sentenced to 12½ years on the murder count but was not sentenced for manslaughter.
The case of the black policeman convicted of murder in the death of a white woman stood in contrast to the initial treatment of Chauvin after the death of Floyd, when public pressure forced the Minneapolis police department to act on the white officer.
The ruling now means Noor’s murder conviction is overturned and the case will go back to the district court where he will be sentenced on the manslaughter count.
Noor has already served more than 28 months of his murder sentence. If sentenced to the presumptive four years for manslaughter, he could be eligible for supervised release around the end of this year.
In their ruling, the justices said that for a third-degree murder charge, also known as “depraved-mind murder”, the person’s mental state must show a “generalised indifference to human life, which cannot exist when the defendant’s conduct is directed with particularity at the person who is killed”.
“We may very well agree that Noor’s decision to shoot a deadly weapon simply because he was startled was disproportionate and unreasonable,” the justices wrote in their opinion.
“Noor’s conduct is especially troubling given the trust that citizens should be able to place in our peace officers. But the tragic circumstances of this case do not change the fact that Noor’s conduct was directed with particularity toward Ruszczyk,” they said.
Caitlinrose Fisher, one of the lawyers who worked on Noor’s appeal, said she was grateful the court clarified what constitutes third-degree murder, and she hoped that would lead to greater equity and consistency in charging decisions.
“We’ve said from the beginning that this was a tragedy, but it wasn’t a murder, and now the Supreme Court agrees and recognises that,” she said.
– with AP
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Well sure, he only killed a white woman. If it had been some big cuddly black man overdosing on Fentanyl, that would be different. and, of course, if the big cuddly black man who was dying of a drug OD ( unbeknownst to the cop ) happened to also be a home invading, drug dealing, porn star/bouncer then that seals it! We have to throw away the key for that ill-trained white cop! But a white woman?? Oh goodness, she had it coming. Unarmed, you say?? Really are oppressors ever really “unarmed”?? Like poor ashli Babbitt…Peacefully protesting rigged elections…The entire system that surrounds us is now built on lies & rigged against us..
The woman is dead so no one cares…. The lawyers get a big name, lots of publicity… good for them. The Judges free a POC in a display of virtue seeking wokeness,,, good for them. The family of the victim… go fish.
What a beautiful woman.
What did you expect to happen? If millions of moronic white Americans, Brits, Aussies etc are going to fight a war (WWII) for the conquest of anti-white Zionist-Communism, then this is the anti-white Zionist-Communist State you will live in. Cause & effect…Remember, power supersedes the ‘law.’
One law for the rich; one law for the poor has now morphed into: one law for blacks; one law for whites. Standing up for the rights of whites is getting to be dangerous territory for white people.
Making the police unaccountable simply exchanges criminality shifting from a group of people who can be prosecuted to a group who can’t. With excessive powers the police will always become lawless.
Going off the shape of her mouth, nose and eyes and her second name damond, probably a dirivative of the jew name diamond, she was a jew. Now heimie has to learn that if whitey goes down old jewboy is going with him. The intellegent peoples of the world, irrespective of race, KNOW that the” crimes” attributed to whitey by the media/schools etc are actually jew crimes. The jews, infact, are the most hated race on the planet, not whitey, and their comeupance will soon be upon them. The guy Noor, a muslim, probably recognised her as a yid and thought he’d get some vengance for the Palestinians and good luck to him if he did.
Fisher (helped free the murderer) is a Jewish name.
keep in mind : moslems + afros
are the best goyim killers for the jews.
and the judges are jewish mostly or
their freemason servants .
IMHO: Considering all the Jewish names involved, it may well be theatre, and no-one actually died or got real prison time. Another Psy-Op.