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East African Muslim man has been convicted by a jury in London for brutally raping and killing an English woman
2024-10-19
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Home Front: Politix
Minneapolis Swears In First Non-U.S. Citizen [Somali] as Police Officer
2024-09-30
[Breitbart] Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sworn in its first police officer who is not a U.S. citizen, according to reports.

The Minnesota Police Dept. has reported that Lesly Vera, a native of Somalia, was sworn in on Thursday as the department’s first non-citizen officer.

Vera was seen at the swearing-in ceremony wearing a hijab over her head as she took the oath of office and received her badge.

Vera moved to Minneapolis with her parents from their arrival point in Mexico when she was four. She is a legal resident alien and authorized to work, but is not a U.S. citizen.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara defended the idea of giving police powers to a non-citizen.

“There may be people who question it, but that’s completely ridiculous. There’s, like I mentioned, there is a history in this country of people immediately on arrival to the country, enlisting in the military and serving,” O’Hara told KSTP-TV. “Somebody like [Officer Vera], who has been here essentially her entire life, absolutely is entitled to protect her community in the same way that anyone else here has, and we’re honored to have her.”

The Somali migrant community in Minneapolis is the largest in the United States and the city has been a target of Somali migration since the 1990s. Somalis were drawn to the city for its generous welfare programs and the chance to live as ex-pats among their own countrymen, but the community has recently been rocked by a massive fraud case entailing tens of millions in stolen Medicaid funding connected to a fake charity called Feeding Our Future run by leading local Somali residents.

The door was opened for Vera last year when the Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) adopted new rules that allowed state law enforcement agencies to elevate non-citizens to the role of police officer. The citizenship requirement was dropped and applicants now only need to be a legal resident and cleared to work in the U.S. to be handed a gun and badge.

Minnesota is not the only state working to allow non-citizens to become police officers. California, Colorado, and Illinois are also crafting legislation to give non-citizens police powers.

Minneapolis was rocked in 2017 when police officer and Somali-native Mohamed Noor shot and killed an Australian woman while responding to a 911 call. Officer Noor was eventually convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter, though the state Supreme court later vacated the third-degree conviction. Ultimately, Noor was sentenced to 57 months for murdering the woman.
Related:
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Minnesota cop gets 12 years in prison for shooting dead innocent Australian yoga instructor who called 911 about a disturbance outside her home
2019-06-08
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Somali-American Mohamed Noor, 33, was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison for the 2017 killing of 40-year-old Justine Ruszczyk Damond

  • Noor was convicted in April of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, but cleared of second-degree intentional murder

  • Noor read a statement in court apologizing for his 'error' that caused the tragedy

  • Defense team had proposed the judge sentence Noor to serve two weeks in jail every year on Damond's birthday and anniversary of her death

  • Judge instead imposed a sentence in line with what prosecutors had asked
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Lawyers for officer who shot, killed Minnesota woman ask for unusual sentence
2019-06-07
[FoxNews] Attorneys for a Minneapolis police officer convicted of murder after he shot and killed an unarmed woman who had called 911 asked a judge Thursday to forgo a prison sentence in lieu of an unusual arrangement: they propose he'd report to jail for a week each year on the woman’s birthday and the anniversary of her death.
If ya don’t ask, they can’t agree, however stoopid the idea.
"This sentence honors the memory of Ms. Rusczcyk and allows Mr. Noor to continue to serve the city," Mohammed Noor's
...also in our archives as Mohamed Noor, he was the first Somali-American on the Minneapolis police force. Despite being flagged by two psychiatrists as unable to handle the stress of the job, and described his neighbours as ill tempered and jumpy, and disliking women, children at play, and African-Americans, he was put through the fast track training for college grads. On the day of the shooting, with almost two years experience he was the senior man in the car...
defense attorneys, Thomas Plunkett and Peter Wold, wrote in their motion ahead of the sentencing scheduled for Friday in the murder of Justine Ruszczyk Damond. "Just as importantly, it mandates that Mr. Noor will continue to consider his action and the great loss they caused."
Except that everything reported about Mr. Noor makes clear the one thing he is completely unqualified for by both nature and nurture is to continue serving as a police officer. So hopefully the judge will firmly reject this ridiculous proposal.
The suggested sentence, instead of the 12-and-a-half years recommended by state guidelines for the third-degree murder charge and four years for second-degree manslaughter, would last the entirety of Noor’s probation, which the attorneys didn’t specify in their request. It also would incorporate an annual period of community service so the officer could continue to repent for his actions and give back to his community.

Noor was convicted this past April after he shot and killed Damond, a 40-year-old dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia, in July 2017. She had been engaged to be married a month after the shooting unfolded.

Noor shot Damond when she approached his squad car with his partner in it as they were parked in the alley behind her home. The officers said they heard a loud bang and saw Damond raise her hands on the partner's side of the car before Noor fired his weapon.

Damond's death fueled a racially charged debate after a series of incidents across the U.S. involving black people being shot by white officers. In this case, Noor, a Somali American, shot Damond, who is white, and whose family received a $20 million settlement from the city.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Somali-American Minneapolis cop who shot dead an unarmed yoga instructor, 40, is requesting no jail time despite being convicted of her murder
2019-06-01
[DailyMail]
  • Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor,
    ...also in our archives as Mohammed Noor, he was the first Somali-American on the Minneapolis police force. Despite being flagged by two psychiatrists as unable to handle the stress of the job, and described his neighbours as ill tempered and jumpy, and disliking women, children at play, and African-Americans, he was put through the fast track training for college grads. On the day of the shooting, with almost two years experience he was the senior man in the car...
    convicted of fatally shooting an unarmed woman in 2017, plans to ask a sentencing judge for no prison time

  • If that's not granted, his defense lawyers are seeking less prison time than state sentencing guidelines recommend which call for a prison term of 11 to 15 years

  • Noor's lawyers filed a motion Thursday, May 30 asking for a 'dispositional departure' when he is sentenced June 7

  • He was found guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the shooting of Justine Damond, 40, who called 911 to report a possible crime
    The events in question took place on 15 July 2017; the first article in our archives was published two days later.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Rare conviction of black cop in shooting spurs race concerns
2019-05-01
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ‐ After three weeks of testimony, a jury needed little more than a day to convict a black Minneapolis police officer of murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed white woman who had called 911 to report a possible crime, delivering a guilty verdict that immediately sparked questions about whether race played a role.

Mohamed Noor was also convicted Tuesday of manslaughter in the July 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond , a 40-year-old dual citizen of the U.S. and Australia whose death bewildered and angered people in both countries.

Noor, 33, testified that he and his partner heard a loud bang on their squad car that startled them, and that he fired "to stop the threat" after he saw a woman appear at his partner’s window raising her arm. Prosecutors questioned whether the bang happened and attacked Noor for not seeing a weapon or Damond’s hands before he fired.

It’s rare for police officers to be convicted after asserting they fired in a life-or-death situation, but some Minnesota community members said they saw it coming for Noor because he is Somali American.

"Officer Noor was going to jail no matter what because he’s a black man who shot a white woman in the state of Minnesota," said John Thompson, an activist and friend of Philando Castile, a black man who was killed in 2016 by a Latino suburban police officer who was acquitted.

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Home Front: WoT
Somali Muslim Cop Who Shot Woman Was Hired AFTER Being Found ‘Unable to Handle Stress' of Job
2018-09-14
h/t Instapundit
[PJMedia] Identity politics kills. If there is any lesson to be drawn from the killing of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, that is it. The city of Minneapolis was so eager to have a Somali Muslim police officer on the force that it hired a man who had been found incompetent to hold the job. Further, it did not fire him even when he proved that he was indeed unfit to be a cop.

Fox News has reported that "the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond once put a gun to a driver’s head during a traffic stop and sometimes ignored calls, according to court filings indicating that psychiatrists and training officers voiced concerns about his fitness for duty."

Not only that, but "Mohamed Noor was flagged by two psychiatrists during a pre-hiring evaluation in early 2015. The psychiatrists said he seemed unable to handle the stress of regular police work and exhibited an unwillingness to deal with people."
One more piece of evidence - as if we needed more, which shows you who's the real enemy are.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Freeman convening grand jury in Justine Damond shooting
2018-01-25
[StarTribune] Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman is convening a grand jury to gather evidence in the 2017 shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, but said he still will decide whether Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor
...first Somali-American on the Minneapolis police force, he was put through the fast track training for college grads. The day of the shooting, with almost two years experience he was the senior man in the car...
will face charges in her death.

About 35 to 40 Minneapolis police officers have been subpoenaed to testify, according to Bob Kroll, president of the Minneapolis Police Federation, the union that represents the department's rank-and-file officers. Among them was Matthew Harrity,
...the junior officer in the car...
Noor's partner the night Damond was killed, and the only living witness aside from Noor. His attorney, Fred Bruno, said Harrity was served Wednesday.

Freeman's decision to use a grand jury is the latest turn in a case that has gained international attention since July 15, when Noor shot and killed Damond, 40, an Australia native, after she reported a possible assault behind her south Minneapolis home.

Harrity told investigators that on the night of the shooting that he and Noor were responding to a sexual assault report behind Damond's south Minneapolis home and were startled by a loud sound, according to a press released issued by the BCA three days after the shooting. Immediately afterward Damond Ruszczyk approached the driver's side window of the squad, according to the BCA. Noor, sitting in the passengers seat, pulled his gun and fired, hitting Damond through the open driver's side window.

Noor declined to be interviewed by the BCA.

"Unless someone else comes forward, the BCA does not have additional interviews scheduled at this time," the agency said in its July 18 news release. A few days later agency investigators spoke to a bicyclist who was seen immediately before the shooting and later watched as police attempted to resuscitate Damond.

The agency turned the case over to Freeman on Sept. 12.
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Home Front: Culture Wars
Fast-track training put officer Mohamed Noor on Minneapolis police force
2017-07-24
h/t Gates of Vienna
Minneapolis made a significant financial investment in Mohamed Noor.

The officer who fatally shot Justine Damond graduated in 2015 from the city’s accelerated police cadet program. The seven-month training is a quicker, nontraditional route to policing aimed at helping those who already have a college degree enter law enforcement.

The Minneapolis program covers tuition at Hennepin Technical College and pays trainees a $20-an-hour salary with benefits while they work to get licensed. After that their salary bumps up.

More than a year into the job, Noor, 31, rose from a beat cop’s obscurity to international headlines after shooting Damond, a 40-year-old spiritual healer from Australia, after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her southwest Minneapolis home. When she approached the driver’s side window of the squad car, Noor, who was in the passenger seat, fired across his partner in the driver’s seat, killing Damond.
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Five fast facts about Somali policeman in MN who killed Australian yoga instructor
2017-07-19
[Heavy.com] Mohamed Noor, the Minneapolis police officer who is accused of shooting and killing Justine Damond, an Australian yoga teacher and spiritual healer, was the first Somali-American officer in his precinct.

A year ago, the arrival of Noor on the Minnesota police force was celebrated by the mayor and Somali community he hails from. There is a pending federal complaint against him, though, by a former social worker from Minneapolis who says Noor and other officers violated her constitutional rights in March by ordering her detention at a hospital ...

"Three sources with knowledge of the incident said Sunday that two officers in one squad car, responding to the 911 call, pulled into the alley. Damond, in her pajamas, went to the driver's side door and was talking to the driver. The officer in the passenger seat pulled his gun and shot Damond through the driver's side door, sources confirmed. No weapon was found at the scene," the Star Tribune reported.
I wasn't sure how to categorize this.
Affirmative Action dividends ?
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Southeast Asia
KL frees 4 Islamic terror suspects held without trial
2007-06-28
Malaysia's government has released four suspected Islamic militants jailed without trial for more than five years, but authorities are still restricting their movements, activists said Saturday.

The four men were arrested in January and February 2002 under the Internal Security Act, or ISA - which allows indefinite detention without trial - during a crackdown on the al-Qaida-linked Southeast Asian terror network Jemaah Islamiyah and its Malaysian affiliate, Kumpulan Militan Malaysia.

The four were released June 15 from the Kamunting prison camp in northern Malaysia, and informed of conditions restricting their movement in the districts where they live, said a statementfrom the Abolish ISA Movement, a Malaysian human rights group.

Internal Security Ministry officials could not be immediately be contacted for comment Saturday. The government usually does not always publicly announce the release of people held under the ISA.

The Abolish ISA Movement identified the four men as Ahmad Yani Ismail, Mohamad Sha Sarijan, Roshelmy Mohamad Sharif and Abdullah Mohamed Noor - all accused by authorities of being Jemaah Islamiyah members.

No reason was given for the release, but security officials have said in previous cases that suspects were freed after they repented following intensive rehabilitation.

It was Malaysia's first release of alleged militants since October 2006.

More than 200 suspected members of Jemaah Islamiyah and Kumpulan Militan Malaysia have been arrested under the ISA, mostly between 2001 and 2003.

Activists estimate that up to 70 of them remain held without trial in Kamunting.

International and Malaysian human rights groups say the ISA has tarnished Malaysia's rights record. Government officials insist it is necessary to protect national security and ensure stability.

Jemaah Islamiyah, which officials say wants to create an Islamic state across much of Southeast Asia, has been blamed for the 2002 bombings on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, attacksin 2003 and 2004 on the J.W. Marriott Hotel and Australian Embassy in Jakarta, and triple suicide bombings in 2005 on restaurants in Bali.
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Southeast Asia
Philippines tighten security for Soddy delegation
2006-07-25
Security forces tightened their watch with the expected arrival of top government officials and guests from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who are attending the National Science and Technology Week celebration in Central Mindanao. Police and intelligence officers were deployed to strategic places where Secretary Estrella F. Alabastro of the Department of Science and Technology, together with the DOST executive directors, are scheduled to visit for the weeklong mobile science Centrum caravan.
A caravan, you say? Hmmm.
Alabastro’s group is scheduled to arrive today following the arrival of Dr. Mohamed Noor Yaseen Fatani of the KSA King Abdulaziz University on Sunday. Dr. Zenaida P. Hadji Raof-Laidan, the DOST regional director, said the opening ceremony will be held at the Phela Grande Hotel here Tuesday.
The Science & Technology director of the Philippines has been to haj. Hmmm.
The visiting officials are scheduled to proceed to the Sultan Kudarat Polytechnic State in Koronadal City the following day before their return to Davao City and Manila.
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