The shooting of Justine Damond by Mohamed Noor should have been the occasion for a wholesale nationwide reevaluation of the idea that police officers should be hired and kept on the force on the basis of their race and religion, not on the basis of merit. Not only has that not happened, but instead, Janee Harteau has been named 2017 Woman Law Enforcement Executive of the Year.
“Police chief awarded despite Damond anger,” by Peter Mitchell, Australian Associated Press, August 4, 2017:
Ousted Minneapolis police chief Janee Harteau, who remained on holidays in the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Australia’s Justine Damond, has won an award.
Ms Harteau was named the 2017 Woman Law Enforcement Executive of the Year on Thursday.
The former chief resigned after Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges announced less than a week after Ms Damond’s death she had “lost confidence in the chief’s ability to lead us further”.
Ms Damond, a 40-year-old life coach originally from Sydney’s northern beaches, called 911 just before midnight on July 15 after she thought she heard a woman near her Minneapolis home being raped.
Officer Mohamed Noor arrived in a patrol car and shot Ms Damond dead as she approached the driver’s side window….
Ms Harteau continued her holiday for four days instead of immediately returning to Minneapolis after Ms Damond’s death.
The former chief told reporters she was “backpacking in the mountains” and “had intermittent phone service”.
She received the award at the annual conference of National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives in Kansas City….
somehistory says
And it means absolutely nothing…a big fat 0.
Those women who may have worked hard at their jobs can feel cheated. If only, if only they hadn’t worked so hard at their jobs. One of them might have won.
gravenimage says
+1
Jen says
Affirmative Action..at it’s best!
An incompetent muslim police officer and an incompetent female police chief, both beneficiaries of affirmative action. The muslim gets off scott free because umm well he’s a muslim and no one wants violent retaliation visited upon them or their family; and Jannee–make her resign but then celebrate her with an award and that will keep all the lefty liberals at bay.
p says
too bad for her she wasn’t muslim.
Rita says
Affirmative action has done a lot of damage to this country over generations now. There has been a lot of monies gone south by abuse of that system. I can vouch for that since a small appliance company made money on hiring me because my name sounded Spanish. I did not need “on the job training” which is what that was known as about 40 plus years ago. That is how long this law has been around.
These days companies get up to $1500 in tax credits for hiring minorities. There are many Americans who have not gotten the jobs they were qualified for over the years and all have suffered for this. We have not been getting the people in place to do the right job and situations like this one take place because of it.
Frank Verderber says
Simple graft and corruption. The Bureaucratic system taking care of their own!
mgoldberg says
“She received the award at the annual conference of National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives in Kansas City….”
So the national women law enforcement executives are incompetent, and cannot accept the fact that incompetent cops are a danger to all. Just like incompetent executives.
p says
She hired the murderer on color and religion. The mayor also forced this. She could have refused but she would have been blackballed..
Shane says
Yes, the idiot mayor should resign and explain that she has learned that hiring people because of race and religion does not work out well for the citizens.
Rita says
I am a woman and see the errors in the way many women govern….from their emotions and not their heads. Never vote for a woman politician or a minority. This practice of hiring minorities and women has gotten us to this point in time. Just look at Germany and what that woman, Merkle, has done to that country. She is just nuts.
Jen says
Can’t agree with you there Rita. I think the problem lies with Germany not female leaders.
For example, Margaret Thatcher in UK was excellent. She was able to dilute the power of unions which was great until that dipwad Tony Blair got elected.
German states before unification and after has had a long sordid history of destroying and corrupting Western Judeo Christian values and beliefs in the West. By that I mean people like Georg Hegel, Feuberbach, Marx, Feud who all built on each others theories and had big influence on Kaiser Wilhelm as well as Hitler. Frankfurt School of Critical Theory was largely based on the views of those evil men and those views eventually came to the US (Columbia university) and spread from there. From the universities, their vile philosophies spread to the entertainment industry, public school system, brought about feminism and led to demise of the Church and wide spread secularism in North America as it had done in Europe.
Merkle is a whackjob who needs to be stopped (probably too late now) but the Germans won’t act because (1) they no longer know whats right or wrong because of secularism (2) the men have become so effeminate thanks to influence of feminism that they no longer have natural drive to protect their country.
Dwayne Austin says
I wonder how many members of the association are native American lesbians?
11B40 says
Greetings:
Me, I’m thinking that what with the police being a uniformed service perhaps it’s time the lady finds a new hairdresser.
Will says
I suspect the majority…….. all proficient at rolling their on tampons and kick-starting their dildos..
gravenimage says
There are fine female police officers. Just not this one…
Will says
That hairstyle …. the just-gang-banged look , is popular among butch dykes …….
gravenimage says
Police chief ousted after Muslim cop shot unarmed woman named Woman Law Enforcement Executive of the Year
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Good grief…
p says
shooting “whitey” is a good thing, they say with this.
God help us all with this trash in charge
gravenimage says
Janee Harteau is a dangerously incompetent moron, no doubt–but no, she never said “shoot whitey”.
Kasey says
Just how thorough was the background chech done by her on this shooter?
Anypne with a Somalian background like him has the potential to be a closet jihadist, ready to enact Allah’s lethal directives against Infidels at the forst opportunity. Have they yet to do this type of check on him?
Maybe they’re still wanting good PR on this one instead?
Terry says
I wonder- what kind of back ground check was done on this police chief? Was she an officer (on the streets) for some time, or a desk clerk? (Possibly knew the right techniques for advancement, along with affirmative action).
Considering that Obama made a female Air Force Officer who had never piloted a plane, or been in any combat situation, a top official of the AF- (probably because she was a woman and a Dem)- I would say anything is possible.
p says
what would it have taken for him to fail?
Terry says
What would it have taken him to fail ( a background check)?
POSSIBLY, JUST POSSIBLY, AFTER ALL THIS IS MINN., WITH GOV. DAYTON–If Noor WAS IN A MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON FOR A MAJOR FELONY.
Rita says
I totally agree with you.
Jack Holan says
I don’t know if you know this story about the Somali Cop but the first report by his partner the driver was that he was stunned when Officer Noor shot across him at the lady speaking to him why she called the Police, killing her outright. After that the story changed but Officer Noor refused to speak to anyone even though he hadn’t lawyered up. His neighbors say he gets into it with the Kids in the apartment building and disrespects all women. He has 3 civil suits for violence against him in the 1-1/2 year as a police officer
So, the Police Chief when she came back after 4 days from a scheduled vacation parroted the sickening phrases of the Mayor and what we’ve heard from world leaders we have to take care that we won’t agitate Right wing groups or others against the Somali Muslim community. Actually they’ve gone into White Communities for extended time periods throwing rocks and destroying private property. I have to ask how many “”Right Wing” or Christians-Jews have slaughtered Muslims? I do have the figure for Muslim terrorists killing anyone and everyone from the FBI. Many of the crimes that should be categorized aren’t for political reasons or delayed reporting. In any case taking an objective look at the Chief at some point yet she certainly didn’t break a record using all her effort to get back as quickly as possible. After her return she seemed more concerned about Officer Noor and the Somali-Muslim Community and not the 100% innocent victim gunned down without any plausible scenario. Even though Officer Noor was exempt from speaking with the State Police she had the authority to call Internal Affairs and have them interview him without any free pass. However maybe she forgot or more likely the Mayor whispered into her ear to let it go. As the last week of her career passed into the sunset she spent more time on Press Conferences then hard Police work. After announcing the Mayors official statements that anyone with a brain and not a racist might make you regurgitate. So she was justly rewarded and allowed to step down and not be terminated. Now some how in the major disconnect in this World is this behavior worthy of the National Law Enforcement Chiefs Award. What did she do for it? It’s like Obama he earned the Nonel Peace while in office 1 month. When he was describing what it meant to h he couldn’t explain why he received it. The committee declared the he would be a great President and it was for future accomplishments. DAH WHAT!
Shmooviyet says
“What did she do for it?” Wondering about that as well, especially considering there are 5 months left in the year.
That she could walk up and accept that award without feeling utterly foolish and humiliated shows just how lacking in character this former public servant is. Must have been one entertaining acceptance speech.
p says
Though t I saw the obama peace prize up on ebay last year… Went for $20..
mach37 says
Obama has probably already spent the money from the Nobel Prize on vacations, or golf.
Rita says
Our society has become a very unfair community, catering to and protecting violently prone individuals and protecting religions that show a propensity to violence and not caring about the people who make up the back bone of our nation. Donald Trump is right and has the support of millions of us to make America what it once was; great!
Muslims inherently do not respect women or the weak and regularly show it.
Dwayne Austin says
Watching that fire rip through one of the world’s tallest residential towers in Dubai on Thursday night, (no injuries reported) anyone else have the urge to chant, Allah Akbar?
gravenimage says
Not really. Infidels do not do this.
Dwayne Austin says
Reminds them what happens when they anger their pagan god…
gfmucci says
The only thing that would rationally justify that is if she was the ONLY female law enforcement executive – even then, they should abandon that award for a year or two.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
I chuckled at this like I chuckle whenever I read an award like “One of the Best Fifty Companies to Work For.”
All of those awards are bought and paid for.
Bezelel says
You can’t make this stuff up. but then you don’t have to.
mach37 says
Maybe Muhammed was right about one thing: maybe women really are worth only half a man.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
lol
gravenimage says
Why don’t you just convert now?
Rita says
Muhammid is never right. Women do measure up…the right ones.
rosremary hopkin says
Corruption in EVERY sector. I am fed up with it. But MAYBE THAT IS what the aim IS. So we can ALL (non muslims of course) be fucked every which way..
Rita says
Wasn’t that the aim for the last eight years? Screw us any way Obuma could?
Kim says
Check out what the terrorists funded bill that was passed a year ago, is now being used for? Judicial Watch/Net Neutrality. They quietly and corruptly shoved that bill through and now we no longer have our 1st Amendment rights!! If you’re a conservative and are on twitter, they block, delete, manipulate your tweets to appear that you hate Trump, and all of the muslimes laws to shut us up!!!
Geoff kilpatrick says
Can someone in America, maybe Mr. Trump, maybe someone could stand up for one of our slain Australian Citizens, please, we need justice done here, not more tokenism. this woman was murdered in cold blood, please help us Mr. Trump, on behalf of all Australians, Lord knows, I might want to come back to America one day, maybe
Rita says
Perhaps some day we will learn what went through this Somali Muslims mind that he thought he had to kill this woman? What could it have been? That she was a woman asking for something?
gravenimage says
A lot of us are writing him, Geoff.
Rita says
Will we ever know what really happened. What went on there, not that it will make a bit of difference, the woman is dead and for no good reason.
Terry says
As a (FORMERLY) loyal Trump supporter, the last few weeks have made me think–perhaps he has flipped.
McMaster is pro-Israel.
No recess appointments.
McMaster fires Iranian (deal) hardliners.
Supports Cotton’s anti-LEGAL immigration act.. (I GUESS TO CREATE ANOTHER BUREAUCRACY– YES TO COLLEGE GRADUATES- NO TO TRADES PEOPLE LIKE PLUMBERS AND CARPENTERS, )
IF A SOCIETY WORSHIPS BAD PHILOSOPHERS AND SCORNS GOOD PLUMBERS, NEITHER ITS THEORIES NOR ITS PIPES WILL HOLD WATER.
As to the Sen Cotton bill- WOULD HIS MOTHER OR HIS WIFE HAVE PASSED (OR MET) THE REQUIREMENTS?
WAS A MODEL A REALLY NEEDED PROFESSIONAL?
I TEND TO AGREE, I THINK THAT HE HAS FLIPPED.
Troybeam says
Only shows how far the liberal left is allowing dis-functional people to get awards for not doing a good job all the while dissing people who have gone above and beyond in their job duties,
PATRICIA FRANCES KOENIG says
Why fire the chief of police…because an officer does something wrong??? Why not fire the officer who did the wrong???
Rita says
Why not fire both and stop this destructive affirmative action Bull crap.
John A. Marre says
Why? because the woman, let us say, does not ever plan to have sex with a man, if you get my drift. That qualifies her as a victim, and entitled to all the privileges that go with being a victim.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Why a search warrant for the alleyway where the victim died and for her house half a block away? See
https://statelymcdanielmanor.wordpress.com/2017/08/05/the-justine-damond-case-update-7-2-all-fished-out/#more-13224
Andy says
White crime victims afraid to make the black kids angry — MISTAKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHzn6olnMiw
Andy says
Why KILLER COP won’t be prosecuted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd7Oeo4MmK4
Joseph Cornell says
And Hitler was named man of the year once. Big deal.