Political correctness put her in the way of a “nervous, jumpy” Muslim cop who took her life. My latest in FrontPage:
A forty-year-old Australian woman named Justine Damond called 911 in Minneapolis Saturday night to report what she thought might be a rape; when police arrived, she approached the police car, and a Minneapolis police officer named Mohamed Noor shot her dead. Since then, Noor has refused to be interviewed by investigators, but has spoken to friends about what happened and why. The more Noor and those who know him have spoken, the more it becomes clear: Justine Damond was a casualty of “Islamophobia.”
Mohamed Noor is a Somali Muslim. He was the first Somali Muslim on the Minneapolis police force. In 2016, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges expressed her excitement about that fact: “I want to take a moment to recognize Officer Mohamed Noor, the newest Somali officer in the Minneapolis Police Department. Officer Noor has been assigned to the 5th Precinct, where his arrival has been highly celebrated, particularly by the Somali community in and around Karmel Mall.”
Hodges wasn’t excited because Mohamed Noor had the skills necessary to become a fine police officer. She was only excited because he represented a religious and ethnic that she was anxious to court. And it is increasingly clear, as we learn about Mohamed Noor’s nervousness and jumpiness and lack of respect for women, and from his own account of events that he relayed to friends (that he was “startled” and reacted by opening fire), that Mohamed Noor was not cut out to be a policeman. He did not have the temperament for it, and if he hadn’t killed Justine Damond, he would likely have done something similar at some point.
So why was he on the force at all? Because he was the first Somali Muslim on the Minneapolis police force. He was a symbol of our glorious multicultural mosaic. He was a rebuke to “Islamophobes” and proof that what they say is false. Minneapolis authorities placed a great deal of faith in Mohamed Noor. He was for them the triumph of diversity, the victory of their worldview. But he has let them down.
Mohamed Noor is not a jihad terrorist. This was not a jihad attack. He is just a trigger-happy, panicky, reckless individual who held his job not because he was fit for it, but because of what he symbolized. And in the wake of his failure, Minneapolis multiculturalists aren’t about to reconsider their religion. On the contrary, they are doubling down. Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges has immediately recognized — as authorities do everywhere after jihad attacks — that the real victims are not those who were killed or wounded, but the Muslim community. She should have issued a statement saying that she recognized that Mohamed Noor was not hired because he was competent, but because he was a Somali Muslim, and that she sees now that Leftist social engineering on the police force costs lives. She should have promised that from now on, police officers will be hired based on their fitness for the job, not their religion or ethnicity.
Instead, this, from Hodges’ Facebook page:
Betsy Hodges
17 hrs · Minneapolis, MN ·To the Somali community: I want you to know that you are a valued and appreciated part of Minneapolis. I stand with you and support you. The strength and beauty of the Somali and East African communities are a vital part of what makes Minneapolis so strong and beautiful. I am grateful to be your neighbor.
This week a Somali police officer, Officer Mohamed Noor, shot and killed a woman under circumstances we don’t yet comprehend. Justine Damond’s death was tragic and awful for everyone. And I want to be very clear that Officer Noor, a fully trained officer in the Minneapolis Police Department, won’t be treated differently than any other officer.
Justine’s death is a tragedy for our city. We cannot compound that tragedy by turning to racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia. It is unjust and ridiculous to assert that an entire community be held responsible for the actions of one person. That will not be tolerated in Minneapolis. If you are experiencing discrimination, you can file a complaint at http://www.minneapolismn.gov/civil…/discrimination-complaint
Mayor Hodges is reassuring Muslims and warning against “Islamophobia,” as if a non-Muslim police officer had shot an unarmed Muslim woman. But that’s not what happened. And in issuing this warning, Hodges is only reinforcing the false premises that led to the killing of Justine Damond in the first place: the idea that Muslims are a victimized, persecuted community that needs special consideration, such that an incompetent Muslim police officer had to be hired. This just ensures that in the future, there will be more Justine Damonds.
Samson says
Import low IQ trash
Put them in postions of power (cop)
Hand the ‘tard a gun
Watch the carnage unfold
Any questions?
DRHazard says
According to a study done from 2002 to 2008 the average IQ in Somalia is 68. No kidding.
Creole Gumbo says
This is consistent with the data presented in “The Bell Curve.”
Golem2 says
That high?
Carolyne says
That high? Huh!
Greyhound Fancier says
What could go wrong?
mortimer says
Political correctness KILLS. Incompetence KILLS. Reverse discrimination KILLS.
Believing the false narratives of ISLAMIC MELODRAMA 101 makes all communities LESS SAFE and more VULNERABLE.
Islam’s source texts and history are filled with Muslims as the perpetrators of JIHAD TERRORISM and non-Muslims as their VICTIMS.
Muslims are so narcissistic that they consider all and any valid criticism to be unfair victimization.
David Pimentel says
Affirmative action KILLS.
Rich Cole says
It appears as though this is going to be a coverup of monumental proportions. As a retired officer with 20 years service all I will say is there is no way you shoot across your car partner through the driver side window at a possible witness to a crime that may have important information to impart. If I lived in Minneapolis I would be questioning the training of the police, you folks have a serious problem there and are not being properly protected. Your mayor is complicit and should be held accountable. Be very careful. I suggest you have this investigated by an agency from another state. It is the only way you are going to get any possibility of truth on this tragic incident.
Samson says
Thank you for your insight/expert opinion
In some twisted sick irony
Noor will come out with multimillion book deal
Dwayne Austin says
Coverup of monumental proportions would be an understatement!
In late June or early July, Mohamed Noor, would have been served with a civil rights lawsuit filed in state court for unlawful search, seizure, detention, First Amendment retaliation, conspiracy, unlawful policy, practice and custom, failure to properly train and supervise, false imprisonment, battery, assault, and negligence.
https://www.scribd.com/document/353993930/1-2#fullscreen&from_embed
Can’t wait to see how the Marxist-loving liberal mayor tries to spin everything that comes out about this guy.
gravenimage says
I don’t know, Rich–the police chief has already resigned, and Noor is whining that he is not getting enough support–in other words, that this is a serious investigation.
Samson says
”Noor is whining because he is not getting ebough support”
I know a tree that has a big limb that can give kots of ”support”
Amillennialist says
It’s not about IQ; it’s about ideology. Islam.
J_not_a says
Only low iq losers are attracted to a violent, backwards, misogynistic, perverse, micromanaging, animal and child abusing death cult like islam. Anybody who actually believes the utter brainless claptrap that is the koran does have a very low iq – that’s my take. Low iq and islam go hand in hand. There may be some of them whose iq is average or above but most are on par with maybe a mule.
Samson says
Which end if the mule?
Corky says
The south end of a north bound mule.
Robeaver says
No. Most organizers are professional or university students. 911. You are repeating a myth that it is deprivation and poverty and lack od education that is the root cause of jihad, and this is not true. While your point that one would have to be reaaly stupid to believe in MO, religion has been doing this to humankind for thousands of years.
Santiago Matamoros says
Islam, not religion in general, and especially not Christianity.
gravenimage says
True.
Samson says
Trust me IQ or lack of plays a big part
Useful idiots is the term used
Truely intelligent people do not embrace Isam
Easy to control/brainwash low functioning /imbred for the most part is what they are
Thus their actions prove as such
Tom says
The mayor is typical of those politicians who are prepared to treat minority communities as weak and unable to be a part of the wider community without special consideration.
This Liberal attitude is what is facilitating the feeling of being different and not having to integrate in minority communities. In other words politicians like this mayor create victims of a community that is perfectly capable of existing without special help or privilege.
These appeaser politicians are a BIG part of the problem and must be voted out of office and replaced with those who will treat all communities the same with the same expectations to be responsible and law abiding as any other group. In other words politicians with common sense.
Dwayne Austin says
The mayor is pandering for votes, plain and simple…
Paula says
And probably receiving payouts from a Muslim organization such as CAIR. Follow the money.
DRHazard says
So much for Muslim immigrants contributing to society. So much for hyping one’s self image by appearing inclusive and tolerant.
balafama says
these days folks had better start taking chances ,since their chances at life may be better with a bumbling intruder than with the ‘ trained cops”.
gravenimage says
The idea that most police are like this is absurd. No Muslim should be in uniform, though.
abad says
I wonder what the chances are of President Trump ding away with Affirmative Action(TM) in the United States.
Ah well I can dream.
abad says
*doing
Lydia says
Corruption all around, no matter from which angle you look.
Alan in Kansas says
Justine Damond was killed by “Kuffarphobia”, the irrational fear of non-muslims!
Carolyne says
I think it was actually “kuffarfemaleaphobia.”
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Justine Damond: Killed by “Islamophobia”
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Seems that Hodge’s only concern is over “Islamophobia”–an innocent civilian being shot to death, not so much…
Guy Forester says
OK, let’s get this straight. A woman reports a possible crime in progress, but the police respond and immediately kill the possible witness that reported the possible crime. At the same time, a male on a bicycle in that same alley, with no description of said male, rides off when the cop car shows up. No one goes after the bicycle guy. All officers have body cams and car cam turned off. These guys make the Keystone Cops and Car 54 look like dragnet and Adam 12 combined.
Meanwhile, the murder of this woman is blamed on “Islamophobia” because the guy that killed her is Muslim. somehow, the fear of Muslims by the locals not even aware that a crime and bungled police response results in a dead white lady is the cause of the death.
OK,, got it. Inspector Clouseau will be on the case immediately.
Let me guess. There were other Muslim or former Muslim Somali applicants that were equally or better qualified for the job. Noor probably got the job as he had the right “credentials” and “references.”
Carolyne says
And looked like he could be Obama’s son. Let’s face it. Most Somali men are really scary looking.
Joeyn says
These Leftists like Hodge are all out to destroy Western civilization. That is what they want more than anything else. Many ask why is the left supporting the Jihadists since the leftists will be one of the first to be destroyed once the Islamists come into power but I think this really doesn’ matter at all to the Left since they, like the Islamists, are also dead set on destroying Western civilization.
Fordstar says
Joeyn:
You touched on the real cause of all this tolerance of and actual aid,to the muslim cultural jihad. Now ask yourself WHY. What is the psychological make up of the the looney Left that they want to align themselves with an islamic culture that will completely reject them once they achieve their goals. If you read Jamie Glasov’s book “United in Hate” you will understand why this is all happening.
s.f. says
Did I hear right?
An non threatening woman is killed in cold blood
by a cop who has his gun drawn in this non threatening
situation, and while his partner is calmly talking to the
non threatening woman, the other schmuck fires
across his partner multiple times killing innocent
woman?
Did I hear right?
That after all this horror, they put said schmuck
on paid vacation? They didn’t incarcerate him
under these egregious circumstances?
Only solution in Minnesota. Get a gun and
take care of business the best way you can.
Don’t call the police.
John Forbes says
It is a very strange thing that the WEST sets out to bring in people who have no history of TOLERANCE for Women, Gays, Other Faiths & hand them jobs just to show that WE are TOLERANT !
Particularly a POLICE JOB with FIREARMS ????????????
When does the WEST get their respect back & say NO to this IDEOLOGY that seeks nothing but DESTRUCTION of DEMOCRACY ???????
There are many Muslims who have fled ISLAMIC COUNTRIES to escape from the DELIGHTS of SHARIA only to have this MONSTROUS CODE follow with irresponsible immigration policies funded by SAUDI ARABIA & OTHERS like George Soros in the NEW WORLD ORDER madness !
When do we have the STRENGTH & sense to stop this ???
James Stamulis says
So this macho Islamic super cop was afraid of a white woman who called the police to report a potential crime? Nah this was just the best excuse this depraved inbred could come up with and another reason Islam should be banned and as many deported as humanly possible.
Carolyne says
The first reports said this Somali idiot shot through the door. All reports say the victim was shot in the stomach and reports are now that he shot through the open window across his partner. If he did indeed shoot through the open window and hit her in the stomach while she was talking to his partner which have required she bend over she must have been eight feet tall. Otherwise he would have shot her in the head.
ninetyninepct says
Betsy Hodges – just what, EXACTLY, is Islamophobia.
For most intelligent people it is a genuine and valid fear of Islam.