Cop who shot Australian woman gets 12.5 years jail, apologises in court

Noor was convicted in April of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the July 2017 death of Damond, a 40-year-old dual citizen of the US and Australia. Noor shot Damond when she approached his squad car in the alley behind her home.

Ahmed Nur carried a sign at the courthouse that had the words "Black, Muslim, Immigrant and Guilty" with boxes checked next to each word. He said he doubted a white officer would have been treated the same in Noor's situation. "I have lived with this and I will continue to live with this," Noor said. "I caused this tragedy and it is my burden. I wish though that I could relieve that burden others feel from the loss that I caused. I cannot, and that is a troubling reality for me."

Tom Plunkett, Noor's attorney, asked Quaintance for a sentence as lenient as probation. He described Noor's desire to become a police officer in part to repay a debt he felt to the country that took him in long ago as a refugee. Noor testified during his trial that a loud bang on the squad car startled him and his partner, and that he saw a woman at his partner's window raising her arm. He said he fired to protect his partner's life. But prosecutors criticised Noor for shooting without seeing a weapon or Damond's hands, and disputed whether either of them really heard a bang.

"Justine's death has left me incomplete - it is as if I have lost a limb or a leg," he said in the statement. "I have lost my daughter, I have lost those private conversations over tea."

Is this guy the only one that contributed to the death of this wonderful person? What about the system and their training that make these guys criminals.? How many other people are killed by the police?

If the victim had been black, then Officer Noor would still be a free man...

No issue with sentence but it would be good to see the black victims of white cops get the same justice.

. Outside the courthouse...

he should prove real popular in prison - where he belongs

Pretty sure if he was a cop from the foreign white European-Anglo-Christian ruling class of Americans after British-America he would have been rewarded!

tragic for Ruszczyk Damond's family....tragic for Noor......the real fault lies in a gun culture and shithouse training of cops

It should of been 100 years 😡

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US court sentences Mohamed Noor to 12.5 years prison | Sky News AustraliaThe police officer who shot dead Sydney woman Justine Ruszczyk Damond outside her home in the US has been sentenced to 12.5 years in prison.\n\nMohamed Noor was found guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after shooting Ms Ruszczyk Damond, who had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault in an alley behind her Minneapolis home.\n\nThe 33-year-old told the court he was sorry for 'taking the life of a perfect person'.\n\nNoor will have to serve at least eight years of his sentence before he is eligible for parole.\n Wonder what would have happened in a southern state and he had been white? When they break the law. Not long enough for this murderer it should of been life imprisonment when he gets out the deport him back to Somalia.
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