A Minneapolis police officer was convicted of third-degree murder in the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman who approached his squad car minutes after calling 911 to report a possible rape behind her home.
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Mohamed Noor heads into the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis to hear the verdict in his trial Tuesday.
Noor was handcuffed and taken into custody immediately despite his attorney's request that he be free on bond pending sentencing June 7. He showed no visible emotion and did not look back at his family, but his wife was crying.Besides the tragic circumstances of the shooting, the case also carried elements of race and immigration. Damond, 40, was white; Noor, 33, is among the many Somali immigrants who settled in Minnesota after coming to America because of civil war in his home country.
Noor and his partner were rolling down the alley behind Damond's home and checking out the 911 call just before the shooting. Noor testified that a loud bang on the squad car scared his partner and that he saw a woman raising her arm appear at his partner's window. He said he fired to protect his partner's life.
The death of Damond, a life coach who was engaged to be married a month after the shooting, sparked outrage in both the United States and Australia. It also cost Minneapolis' police chief her job and contributed to the electoral defeat of the city's mayor a few months later.
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