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Don Damond, Justine Damond, leftist outrage and backlash, Mohamed Noor guilty, Social justice, the rule of law
The rule of law triumphs over social justice…
A jury on Tuesday found former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor guilty on charges of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the killing of 911 caller Justine Ruszczyk.
This is believed to be the first time a police officer in Minnesota was found guilty of murder from shooting someone while on duty. Nationwide, such convictions are extremely rare.
I expected the jury to render a decision quickly in this case. I’ll have another update posted tomorrow evening when more information is available. This is also a great outcome for the civil suit lodged against Minneapolis. There is much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments at City Hall and MPD Headquarters this night.
Expect Leftist outrage and playing of the race/Islamophobia card.
NOTE: Scott Johnson of Powerline has been in the courtroom for the entire trial. Go here for a brief pod cast–audio only–of his initial thoughts.
Stately McDaniel Manor 
About that civil suit against Minneapolis? Two words – self insured.
John Ruzckcek (spelling?) expressed similar thoughts about MPD and MN BCA that I had.
I think he wants the civil trial to be loud, messy, and very public. I don’t think he wants to settle with a NDA gag, no matter how many dollars they offer. He wants justice for his little girl.
Roger that. I’m glad Mr. Ruzckcek got criminal justice.
Now I hope he says no to a settlement particularly if there’s an NDA. I want the MPD, MN BCA to be thoroughly illuminated in a civil trial (particularly why a warrant was issued to search Justine’s house) so the public understands what fools they have maintaining public safety.
An NDA is only relevant if there’s a settlement prior to the filing of the suit. The suit was filed, and the city and department malfeasances were listed in detail. There’s nothing to be protected from disclosure.
They’re going to settle and pay, and the victim’s family are going to be able to say what they want, and the city and dept will offer no further comment.
City and dept would obviously be protected from further discovery. That’s all.
Dear W.E. Peterson:
Thanks! One can hope this will go to trial. Complete discovery would be interesting indeed, which is why I suspect the City will do any and everything possible to prevent it.
Dear Roger Lake:
What you said.
Dear rd:
Let us hope so.
There were a lot of Australian Media at the trial. Expect our local TV Channels to have interviews with them, if you cannot find their coverage directly.
Supposedly one of the Australian reporters said, “Our Australian Police don’t shoot unarmed women. That is why it is a big story in Australia.”
Regarding the acquittal of second-degree murder: pointing a gun at someone and discharging it is prima facie evidence of intent to kill, since use of a firearm is deadly force. Mere reckless behavior would be a negligent discharge (such as the drunk-dancing FBI agent).
Chip,
Please explain that to Yamhill Cointy Judge Ladd Wiles and a jury of morons from MacMinniville who gave my marijunna bootlegging tenant a free pass for firing two rounds from a 12 gauge shotgun, probably loaded with slugs, at my son and his friend. The boys observed the effects of two, singular projectiles impacting within about three meters from them. The shooter had fired through brush, probably targeting by sound rather than sight, from a distance of 100 to 170 meters. A miss by 3 meters from a range of 100 meters is comparable to shooting at someone from across the room and hitting them in the lungs rather than the heart.
The judge and jury allowed themselves to be influenced by the testimony of my marijunna bootlegging tenant’s marijunna bootlegging grandson to invoke the Elmer Fudd defense. He was misrepresented as a “gun expert” because he was a veteran of the USMC (until discharged because of a debilitating brain injury), and used to work asa clerk in a gun shop (until fired after the massive theft of (either components for or completed) 100 guns, and “builds guns” (assembles AR-15s, probably from the above mentioned stolen components). This imbecile conflated the Remington 870, pump action shotgun that my tenant keeps propped by the front door with an antique Remington 1870, double barrel shotgun. He then went on to testify that my tenant could not have been firing slugs or even buckshot because he had a full choke barrel. “His gun would have exploded, just like whathappens to Elmer Fudd when Buggs Bunny sticks a carrot into the muzzle of his shotgun.”
The Brenke slug and more common Foster slug were specifically designed to be fired through a full choke barrel. Just read the label on a box of Remington Sluggers. Read the Wikipedia article on shotgun slugs (which is not an authoratative source) then read the article from CRIME LAB DIGEST (which is an authoratative source) which is the major reference.
The Remington 1870 shotgun was manufactured before the concept of a choke had proven itself and was offerred by major manufacturers.
The Remington 1870 shotgun was designed to fire black powder cartridges and the 2&5/8″ chamber will not accept standard 2&3/4″ shells.
The Remington 1870 shotgun was offerred with Damascus Twist barrels that do tend to explode if you fire modern ammunition loaded smokeless propellent through them.
Even if all of this blather about firing slugs through a choked barrel was true, you can change the barrel on a Remington 870 shotgun in about 30 seconds.
This had the smell of an intentional act from the very beginning.
I would have expected at least murder 2 in this case.