A woman is dead because of identity politics. My latest in PJ Media:
Identity politics kills. If there is any lesson to be drawn from the killing of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, that is it. The city of Minneapolis was so eager to have a Somali Muslim police officer on the force that it hired a man who had been found incompetent to hold the job. Further, it did not fire him even when he proved that he was indeed unfit to be a cop.
Fox News has reported that “the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond once put a gun to a driver’s head during a traffic stop and sometimes ignored calls, according to court filings indicating that psychiatrists and training officers voiced concerns about his fitness for duty.”
Not only that, but “[Mohamed] Noor was flagged by two psychiatrists during a pre-hiring evaluation in early 2015. The psychiatrists said he seemed unable to handle the stress of regular police work and exhibited an unwillingness to deal with people.”
The psychiatrists added: “Noor was more likely than other candidates to become impatient with others over minor infractions, have trouble getting along with others, to be more demanding and to have a limited social support network. The psychiatrists said he ‘reported disliking people and being around them.’”
But he was hired anyway. The foolishness of that decision became clear almost immediately.
“In one instance two months before the shooting, Noor reportedly pointed a gun at the head of a driver who was pulled over for giving the middle finger to a bicyclist and then passing a vehicle without signaling.”
The Minneapolis Police Department and city officials wanted Mohamed Noor to succeed so badly, he was placed on and graduated from a fast-track program to get onto the force in the first place. 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 group that she was anxious to court.
His competence as a police officer was always secondary to his ethnicity and religion.
Thus he remained on the force even though there were three complaints against him in two years. A neighbor reported: “He is extremely nervous … he is a little jumpy … he doesn’t really respect women, the least thing you say to him can set him off.” When the neighbor heard that Noor was the cop who had shot an unarmed woman, he wasn’t surprised: “When they say a policeman shot an Australian lady I thought uh oh, but then when they said who it was, I was like, ‘OK.’”
None of the indications of Mohamed Noor’s unfitness to a police officer mattered to Minneapolis officials. They had too much invested in his success to acknowledge that their exercise in diversity and multiculturalism was a miserable failure. Noor was a symbol of our glorious multicultural mosaic. He was a rebuke to “Islamophobes” and proof that what they say is false. He was, for Minneapolis authorities, nothing less than the triumph of their worldview.
Apparently there was nothing whatsoever he could have done to be removed from the police force — until he killed Justine Damond. But even then, he remained on the force for months after the shooting. Noor could have marched into Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges’ office and announced that she would henceforth be his infidel slave, and he would have remained on the force….
Read the rest here.

StellaSaidSo says
Justine’s family should sue the Mayor and city of Minneapolis. Not only did they knowingly put an incompetent person in a position of influence, but they also GAVE HIM A GUN.
Ray Jarman says
++++++++1 Nothing more needs to be said except that I still feel so sorry for the young lady.
Andy says
Being in the Forces, Military or Police is a very high risk, stress profession that needs VERY QUICK THINKING DECISION MAKING.
If you don’t have the qualifications you should not be allowed into any Force, Whether MILITARY OR POLICE PERIOD. I don’t care what color you are, Filling quotas is not they way to go.
I also feel sorry that a young lady lost her life because of a incompetent person.
Andy says
God bless you Mr. Spencer, JW & Jesse Lee Peterson, plus all Patriots around the world!
The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS: Robert Spencer (Interview)
gravenimage says
True, Andy.
carpediadem says
She lost her life because a BUNCH of incompetent people made it so.
Frank Anderson says
Stella, this is what I think an attorney would consider in this case. ALL of the people in the chain of command who hired this man, put him in a uniform and gave him a badge and gun, acted with complete and knowing indifference to the danger he posed to the lives and civil rights of those he encountered. That is to me legally indistinguishable from a group on a bridge where one throws a large rock over the side into a car below, killing a person (driver or passenger). That crime took place recently in Florida with ALL those present being charged with murder. It is called Universal Malice.
Further I would argue there was a conspiracy to violate the civil rights under color of state law by setting this man loose on the jurisdiction. A conspiracy is described briefly as 1) an agreement for an unlawful purpose or to use unlawful means; 2) between 2 or more persons and 3) an overt act by any ONE of the participants in furtherance of the conspiracy. It is not required that any of the conspirators know all of the details; only that they each seek to accomplish the goals, and even if they join it later. Read the case please that I have cited United States V. Gary Greenough, 609 F. Supp 1090 (S.D. Ala. 1985) for one of the very best and to the point explanations of conspiracy that applies both to criminal and civil actions.
Not just the mayor, who was being in Clint Eastwood’s description from The Enforcer “stylish” every person who had a hand, and did not resist, in hiring this man should pay for his actions both in civil actions for damages and criminal actions for the crimes that they helped bring about. The taxpayers who elected these geniuses should also help pay the bill to learn better care in who they elect next time..
gravenimage says
Thanks for the information, Frank. This seems like criminal negligence *at best* on the part of the police department. (I speak as a layperson, of course–you know more about the legal terminology).
Frank Anderson says
GI, this is not criminal negligence. it is a criminal conspiracy by public officials to commit murder and violation of civil rights. Nothing less. “The knowledge of one is the knowledge of all; The acts of one are the acts of all.” Just as shooting into a passing automobile or railroad passenger car and killing a person at random is murder, sending a man deemed by MD Psychiatrists as unfit out to the public with a badge, uniform and gun who then kills without “justification, mitigation or excuse” is murder and violation of civil rights under color of state law. Look it up before trying to minimize the situation. There are things taught in 3 years of law school, more or less a thousand hours of continuing legal education and nearly 40 years of being a licensed attorney that do not appear on television. This is no joking or trivial matter. You can see the cite for the Gary Greenough case in many of my comments. If that case is taken as a good starting point for researching conspiracy it could be much easier to see the difference.
gravenimage says
Frank, I was in *no way* trying to minimize this horrifying situation, and I bow to your legal knowledge.
I doubt that public officials actually wanted Noor to kill anyone–but they had ample evidence long prior to this terrible shooting that this was all too likely.
Frank Anderson says
GI if you ever decide to read the case or the excerpt that I have placed several times in my comments you will see that it doesn’t matter in the least what they wanted or intended when they set in motion the killing of this woman. Any victim would be equally satisfactory. Their goal was to place this man on the street knowing he was condemned by fully credentialed psychiatrists (plural) as unfit and unprepared to deal with people. From there anything and everything he did they are deemed to have intended and approved.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Frank. And I have read your link–just hadn’t realized the legal ramifications.
Frank Anderson says
GI, we are on the same side. Neither of us have any need or desire to deceive or blow smoke. This issue is part of my work that dates back to essentially my entire time as a licensed attorney where I fought a criminal conspiracy reaching to the highest levels of state government and included agents of the federal government. I won. Now will the people who have suffered at the hands of this conspiracy pay the price?
gravenimage says
I hope so, Frank.
Bulldog says
Spent 40 years in police work and many as a patrol training officer in a major city. I would have washed this guy out quickly. But if you have political brass they just ignore your recommendation. His PD will be busy shredding I’m sure.
Frank Anderson says
I have been on the side of the police and prosecutors far more frequently than opposed to them. When doing my duty as defense counsel, there was always absolutely correct and straight challenging of the state’s case as part of the duty. There can be no valid conviction without a zealous and competent defense.
The biggest single reason I am here today, instead of a multi-millionaire retired in luxury, is that I refused to help conceal the ongoing theft of money by the manager and directors of a federally financed, mortgaged and regulated utility. That certainly included their effort to shred a number of documents that detailed their unlawful breach of their fiduciary duty. Those documents survived their efforts at a price I had to pay, leading to the research and decades of litigation in my effort to prevent future repeats and to make them pay. It is almost inevitable that one person somewhere will assist in preserving enough evidence and records to bring the wrongdoers to justice. And now, in part because of my experience and research, it can be done without that person committing personal or professional suicide, as I did.
18 United States Code Section 1001 makes endeavoring to conceal from, or to supply misleading material information to an agency of the federal government a crime. That would be in addition to ALL the other federal crimes I think are present in these facts and this situation. There would also be Obstruction of Justice charges under 18 USC Sections 1503, 1505 and 1512, which re-codified 1503 and 1505 under the Victims and Witnesses Protection Act of 1982, There are probably ample legal opportunities to give the shooter a lot of company for a long time, especially if they do more. I hope for consecutive instead of concurrent sentences to deliver a very harsh lesson to any who would follow these tracks to murder.
gravenimage says
You are a principled man, Frank
Frank Anderson says
GI, thank you again very humbly. Principled does not pay bills and child support. Time is getting shorter for the day I face The Real Judge; I did earlier during surgery. I believe there is a reason I am still here and that there is something good left that I can do. Twelve years of military school with an honor system where the teacher walked out of the room during tests made an impression.
gravenimage says
Thanks, Bulldog.
gravenimage says
I’m so sorry that you have suffered for having taken a stand, Frank.
I know your contributions here are *much* appreciated.
StellaSaidSo says
Thankyou for your learned comments, Frank. I completely agree that every person in the chain of command which allowed an incompetent person to wreak entirely predictable havoc should be called to account, especially the Mayor. You have outlined a very good case for conspiracy, in my view. These people knowingly overlooked normal standards – in which public safety is the highest priority – in favour of an ideological position, in which ‘diversity’ is the highest priority. In other words, they agreed to put the public at risk for the sake of projecting an image that made them ‘look good’.
I am sure that I speak for others here when I say how much I admire your efforts in exposing high level corruption and bringing the guilty to justice, as you described above. You obviously paid a heavy price for your principles, but I’m guessing you sleep better at night than do some others! Just as well you were not operating in Arkansas during the Clinton years, or we might never have enjoyed the benefit of your wisdom at JW!
Frank Anderson says
Stella, I do not blow smoke. I was living in a state even more corrupt and dangerous than Arkansas before the Clintons were in office. For most of 10 years I was alone, without support fighting rich, powerful, influential people who were stealing from their customer/owners.
StellaSaidSo says
Frank, I am puzzled as to why you would think that I would think that you were ‘blowing smoke’. You have shared a little of your story on JW before, and I remember your posts. I sincerely admire the stand you took, and the sacrifices you made. My reference to Arkansas was a way of saying ‘Thank Goodness you lived to tell the tale!’
Frank Anderson says
Stella, that particular comment was for those who are not familiar with the story, not you. I was threatened with murder of all my family very early in the adventure and was completely dismissed by the FBI and DOJ after being named 3 times in Federal Court Pleadings under oath, “a person who will necessarily testify in any hearing of this matter.”
Under cases decided prior to the VWPA of 1982, a federal witness is any person who knows material information and expects to, is expected to or does testify in any federal judicial or administrative proceeding. A case decided after the VWPA ruled the changes in language did not make legal previously illegal conduct. Another case held the federal witness is protected before, during and after any proceeding and protection applies whether or not he actually testifies.
But the short version from the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI office is “We don’t care. . .” The rest is quoted in my article When to Keep Silent. Needless to say I remain prepared to act in my own defense and the defense of my new family; Only now, after nearly 40 years with much more ability and eagerness to take them out rather than just trying to survive; and I have all the tools to do it..
In this situation a Doomsday plan where many copies of documents are placed in safe hands where if anything happens to the “ethical resister” the documents will survive and be delivered to the “right” people. As explained in Herman Kahn’s seminal book On Thermonuclear War, and vividly illustrated in Dr. Strangelove, a Doomsday device does not work unless the opposition knows of its existence and readiness to take them out if “I” get killed. There were attempts at both my ex-wife and me. But the plan has worked and continues to work. [The term “ethical resister” in place of whistleblower is credited appropriately to William Bush who took an early case to the US Supreme Court and talked with me when I was doing my multiple years of research.]
gravenimage says
+1
Chris Vaughan says
They are suing them: https://abcnews.go.com/US/justine-damonds-family-files-suit-seeking-50-million/story?id=56756972
gravenimage says
*Good*. Thanks for the link, Chris.
J D S says
MinnesSoooota is done!
paul says
Not his fault…. Hodges insisted and she is culpable. Not NOOR. This politically correct, and whites do not fit our hiring demographics is rampant.
Robert McKenna says
Right ! Look to the Mayor and other pandering officials who actually pushed this sow covered avenue some fun by shooting a pushy white woman.
Or didn’t the woman count for much because she was a woman ?
The Mayor and other lackeys were shamefully pandering for votes from the semi-civilized Somalis.
They should b prosecuted right along side this filthy muslim.
James Lincoln says
As a physician employed in a heavy industrial environment, I have performed literally thousands of pre-placement medical exams.
The two psychiatrists did due diligence and voiced their concerns / recommendations to human resources / management.
Human resources / management ignored the recommendations and hired the individual anyway.
I have never had human resources / management go against my recommendation to “not hire” based upon a serious medical issue – thoroughly vetted out – that would prevent the applicant from performing the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation.
This case is a severe anomaly.
Frank Anderson says
J.L. I hope you understand that in this case I would not sue the psychiatrists. Unless later there appeared a retreat from the reported evaluation, they did what they could to prevent this disaster and were ignored.
James Lincoln says
Understand fully – thanks!
Frank Anderson says
J.L. the people who put him in the position to commit this murder and violation of civil rights are just as responsible as he is. 18 United States Code Section 2, anyone who aids, abets, counsels or acts in furtherance of a federal crime is equally guilty of that crime. I have had the honor and pleasure of working with a number of psychologist and psychiatrists most of my life. They are among the most reliable people I have known.
Andy says
Meanwhile in Canada,
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is unveiling his new campaign ad for 2019!
Andy says
Liberal Elites: Diversity is the Future
gravenimage says
Thanks for the background, James. Two psychiatrists recommending a candidate *not be hired* is pretty clear-cut.
Jedothek says
The only hope we have to stop this madness is to say clearly and publicly , “affirmative action is bad.” We shall be called racists. We have to shrug it off.
Frank Anderson says
J, saying is just more hot air that will not do or change anything. Affirmative action is a denial of equal protection under the law and is unconstitutional, even as a purported remedy for PAST discrimination. Now that could get things rolling.
gravenimage says
Yes–“Affirmative Action” goes against all of our values of equality. The results are particularly horrific here, though–far worse than the frequent incompetence in government jobs.
One group that is moving on this is Asian Americans, who are being kept out of universities because they are over all too successful. This particularly points out how crazy these policies are.
j_not_a says
“Too successful” many times because of cheating and bribing.
j_not_a says
Just google asian Chinese cheating exams it is astounding and its a problem in universities where they go worldwide
gravenimage says
With all respect, j_not_a, there were many Asian students at both my prep school and at UC Berkeley, and they tended to be some of the very best students, especially in technical fields. I’m sure some Asian students have cheated, but this cannot I believe explain their success in toto.
I think over all it has more to do with a culture that emphasizes study and honors scholarship–similar to that of many Jewish families.
StellaSaidSo says
@ gravenimage
j_not_a is not wrong, GI. While Asian students do tend to be highly intelligent and conscientious, there is nevertheless a huge problem in China with large numbers of students who take short-cuts to academic success. In some examination centres, authorities use drones equipped with facial-recognition technology to monitor candidates. Your personal experience proves nothing. Anecdote is not evidence. Furthermore, nobody claimed that ALL Asian students cheat.
gravenimage says
Stella, cheating does happen in academia, and think it is important to crack down on any suspicions of same. I do not think this can explain the widespread high academic rankings of Asians in the US and much of the rest of the West, though, nor have I seen any evidence that Asians are more likely to cheat than students of other ethnicities.
The acknowledged success of Asian students is actually a big issue at universities like UC Berkeley,
“The Ivy League’s Asian problem”
http://www.dailycal.org/2013/02/11/the-ivy-leagues-asian-problem/
“…Put less glamorously, the assembled admissions experts brainstormed ways for the admissions process to put more emphasis on the personal qualities of applicants — and, implicitly, to deemphasize academic measures of merit…
But what if there is a more unsettling explanation for admissions offices’ emphasis on applicants’ personalities? What if “holistic review” is just a politically correct term designed to give colleges license to achieve a desired ethnic makeup among admitted students — in particular, to cap Asian enrollment?…”
I’m a big believer in merit-based standards, which offer opportunity to everyone, and are–not incidentally–exactly the standards that would have kept those like Noor out of police work,
StellaSaidSo says
gravenimage, neither j_not_a nor I claimed that cheating explained the high academic rankings of Asian students, nor did either of us claim that Asians are more likely to cheat than any other ethnicity.
j_not_a simply made the point that cheating is a problem amongst students in China, and I concurred with this observation, having some knowledge of the scale of the problem, which you apparently did not have. The acknowledged superiority of Asians in academic rankings was not the issue here. I am opposed to any form of ‘affirmative action’. IMO, the job should always go to the most competent candidate. No ‘quotas’, no excuses. I would be very concerned about the machinations of the Ivy League admissions ‘experts’ which you mention. The last thing that a university should ‘de-emphasise’ is academic measures of merit.
gravenimage says
Stella, academic cheating *is* a serious issue in China, which I never denied. Certainly, some Asian university students in the West do come from China, and so this may be a concern. Most Asian students in American universities are actually Asian-Americans, though.
Unless it is something I have missed–which, admittedly, is possible–I have never heard that Asian-Americans–or those of Asian heritage in places like Canada and Australia–are more apt to cheat than students of other ethnicities.
KWJ says
I think the family has a very good case to sue the police department to have hired and not fired this guy when there were glaring red flags. I wonder how many other people around the country have been fast-tracked because of ethnicity and their religion, both of which
are wrong to do, unethical and discriminatory towards other candidates. The idea that they were excited to hire him is pathetic. Then the Somalian community’s first concern was this cop making them look bad. Dear Somalians, how about saying Somalians with issues like this guy not be hired just because he’s Somalian and that he should have been fired. Candidates shouldn’t be fast-tracked for police jobs.
This multiculturalism and diversity obsession has gone way too far in Western countries causing people’s lives to be of lesser quality in area as, ruined, if not dead, because politically correct or agenda-driven people not saying anything or not reporting nor having real discussions about issues.
Walter Sieruk says
If and that is “If” it’s actually true that this awful man shot that innocent and unarmed woman dead because he was “unable to handle the stress of the job.” Then this means that the Minneapolis people hiring department is totally and completely incompetent for hiring such a unfit man as a police officer.
That put that specific police department for hiring that terrible man was criminal in itself . Many people need to be held into account for this extreme folly on judgment.
On the other hand if that Muslim man shot and killed that America women because he could not or would not override his Islamic misogyny and arrogant Islamic hate for people who are non-Muslims which resulted in this religiously motivated murder then the Minneapolis police department when it hired and screening board are even worse than totally and completely incompetent for accepting that Muslim am as a police officer.. Well, this put that specific police department in folly of PC pandering to Muslims Many people need to be held into account for this heinous PC error in judgement
gravenimage says
Yes–gross incompetence is actually the best case scenario here.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Our modern-day empire requires a lot of force and lying to our people – Ron Paul”
https://www.rt.com/usa/438411-us-empire-ron-paul/
gravenimage says
Flavius, Ron Paul is castigating the US for daring to bring sanctions against Iran.
This RT article is more against America for not enabling a nuclear Iran as Russia is doing than anything else.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
The story of Iran is a long history involving the USA meddling in its affairs. And now that sanctions ARE necessary (let me be clear that I am against the present regime in Iran and I am against Obama’s deal and I am for the sanctions) to protect the region from a possibly new nuclear power.
Let me remind you that it was *America* that put the Shah in power. It was *America* that allow for his ouster. It was *America* that allow the Ayatollah to return to Iran from Paris, and thus start the revolution. If you have a proven track record of incompetence then you should get out of the ‘nation building’ business.
What Ron Paul is saying is that certain players in the US government (and associated industries) are using force abroad and lying domestically to run personal empires. It behooves US citizens to listen to this and stop being lied to. His use of the Iran as an example is a poor one since he doesn’t have time in brief sound-bite to outline the whole history. It’s a complex situation but in the big picture the US and the US alone created this monster through its inept ‘nation building.’
gravenimage says
As bad as the Shah was, Flavius, he was the least bad leader that Iran has had in modern times.
And the US–for good or ill–allowing the Ayatollah to return to Iran and to start the Islamic revolution was not a sign of the US intervening in Iranian affairs, but an example of our *not* doing so.
Frank Anderson says
GI I suggest that we remember it was not the entire US that made several “questionable” decisions. Jimmy Carter, who now celebrates that he is no longer the worst president since WWII made 2 decisions I contend are favorable to the United States and its citizens: 1) Deployed the cruise missile which bankrupted the Soviet Union and 2) Ordered the Navy to rescue the boat people off the coast of Vietnam. Other than those 2 decisions, If He decided, It was wrong, including the Shah/Ayatollah, selling F-14’s and Phoenix missiles to Iran, Killing the Breeder reactor program and prohibiting the re-processing of nuclear fuel . . .In spite of his continuing refusal or inability to pronounce correctly the word “Nuclear” (“Nu que lar”). But BHO his taken is place.
Truman and Eisenhower were in charge when Mossadiq (sp?) was overthrown and Shah restored by the CIA in 1953 (?). The Shah was a pretty good friend to the US and personally seemed a fairly good person to know and deal with. I think I had a class with one of his relatives when I went back to college for the third time to study accounting. She was a delight in the classroom.
Every other nuclear country reprocesses nuclear fuel. Depending on whether a reactor is a Boiling Water or Pressurized Water design, it uses either 150 tons or 75 tons of fuel. Every 18 months the reactor is shut down for 3 months to remove a quarter and “shuffle” the remaining fuel. After a given “bundle” of fuel rods has spent 4 18 month periods in the reactor less than 5 percent of the uranium has been consumed and converted into waste; But that is enough to poison the chain reaction and make further use uneconomical, Also at the end of the 4 cycles more heat is being produced by Plutonium transmuted in the reactor from non-fissionable U-238 than from U-235 (fissionable uranium). Plutonium is quite suitable for making new fuel and can be a productive part of salvaging 95 percent of the fuel we are now storing while a decision is made where to store it for hundreds of thousands of years. Having worked in several nuclear utilities COST compared to “traditional” sources is outrageous; but still far less than the faddish alternative sources of wind and solar. The volume of waste to be stored and its period of confinement necessary for safety would be reduced by reprocessing.
And YES, I have worked for 3 nuclear utilities involving 4 nuclear plants, including 1 that was cancelled because of outrageous and unacceptable cost.
gravenimage says
Of course I agree, Frank. I meant US authorities–not all American citizens.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
“Controversial ‘Anti-Islam’ Book Shoots to Top of German Best Seller List”
https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/13/controversial-anti-islam-book-shoots-to-top-of-german-best-seller-list/
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Saudi Arabia:
“Five women in burqas BRAWL at side of busy road as one repeatedly drops toddler while she’s battered”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/five-women-burqas-brawl-side-13236265
The Abaya Takfiri Two-step:
FYI says
I wonder how the police line-up will work…
I wonder what caused it..”How dare you buy the same burqa brand as me,you fat bitch..”
But seriously:look at how they treat that poor little child
Glyn Davies says
They got plenty is probably their attitude…and by the looks was only a female…
gravenimage says
Yes–that book has been covered here at Jihad Watch.
gravenimage says
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Muslim Cop Who Shot Woman Was Hired AFTER Being Found ‘Unable to Handle Stress’ of Job
…………………..
Well, this is *just appalling*. Noor never should have been hired–at the very least, he should have been relegated to desk duty.
That he was still on the job after holding a gun to the head of a drivr who had flipped off a bicyclist and passed a vehicle without signalling–minor, non-violent offences that probably happen thousands of times a day in the US–is insane.
His ignoring calls is also shocking–although given Noor’s record, the callers may have been better off facing the crisis without this presence…
James Lincoln says
You are correct, there is a third option for medical: “recommend hire with limitations.”
The limitations would have to be evidence – based, very restrictive in this case.
gravenimage says
True, James.
Indiana Tom says
But we all feel better that they hired a token Muslim to celebrate diversity.
Glyn Davies says
Trudopes new catchfraise …”Strength in Diversity…” oxymoron I think
LytchZam says
“Noor could have marched into Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges’ office and announced that she would henceforth be his infidel slave, and he would have remained on the force….”
In a way, she was his “infidel slave.”
gravenimage says
+1
Maran says
That idiot mayor Betsy Hodges should certainly be one of the first to be arrested.
She may not have personally appointed him but I’m sure her words of acclamation regarding the murderous Noor acted as a visible sanction of his appointment. (No doubt she will try to wriggle out of responsibility as not having been responsible for his appointment.) Let her own words condemn her.
Those who were directly responsible for hiring Noor, against the advise of psychiatrists and/ort psychologists must be prepared for culpability and should be sacked immediately for incompetence etcetera, and then charged in accordance with what Frank Anderson suggests.
The erratic behaviour of Noor even before this incident should have raised warning flags, and yet again this was not addressed. As a result an innocent women was murdered. In the interests of justice this MUST be addressed, and never allowed to happen again.
Frank Anderson says
Maran, incompetence suggests to me something far less serious than happened here. The people involved did not merely have “reason to know”: THEY KNEW when they put this man on the street with a badge, gun and sense of power that he was a danger to everyone around him, including his fellow officers. And they did it anyway. This is another time when “Deliberate ignorance constitutes knowledge of the truth.” Wyle v. R.J.Reynolds, 709 F.2d 585 (9th Cir. 1983). The shooter should not go to jail alone, nor should he and the city government bear the damages alone. ALL who made this possible should suffer from their indifference.
Maran says
Agree totally, Frank Anderson.
Maran
Frank Anderson says
Maran, if ever a time existed where “sugar coating” or “soft-pedaling” was more than merely counterproductive, but downright self-defeating and -destructive this is it. “A soft answer may turneth away wrath” under some circumstances. But what we face right now it is too late to worry about turning away wrath that is being delivered daily with no sign of becoming anything but worse. Either fight with every available tool or lose, including among those tools clearly spoken and truthful language at all times. Those are the only choices with an opponent who will not and cannot compromise on any terms that leave anything of our liberties.
Spencer says
This is like the case of Maj Hassan who murdered about fourteen soldiers at Ft Hood in 2009. His superiors ignored warning signs about his radicalization, in the interest of “diversity.” The Army chief of staff, Gen Casey said afterward diversity must be maintained. The Army killed those victims same as the Minneapolis fools murdered Justine. Hassan still has not been executed.
gravenimage says
Grimly true, Spencer.
Vicky King says
There are those born in America, who call themselves democrat or socialist, that have no morals or an ability to distinguish between right and wrong. That’s why they hire barbaric muslims, then cover for them when they savagely murder someone, or many others.
Maran says
Thank you, Frank. Again I agree. A heinous crime has been committed and those who are guilty must be held accountable.
Glad to read that her family are suing the State for damages. Nonetheless this is no consolation for the loss of a young life. It has been suggested that the case will probably not go to Court but will be covered by insurance held by the State concerned.
I hope this does not mean that there will not be a full and thorough examination of those who appointed the murderous Noor, and that they be called to account for their actions.
Frank Anderson says
Maran, if you already understand and I am telling you something you already know I apologize. In general, if a person sues that starts the process in court. Filing the suit depending on the court and games along the way to trial can take years or more. Somewhere along the way the defendant can make an “offer of judgment” to pay a certain amount. Unless the plaintiff, the party filing the suit and making the claim obtains a verdict greater than the offer, the plaintiff can be saddled with the defense costs, expenses and attorney fees. If the plaintiff makes an offer to settle for all available insurance proceeds which is declined, the insurance company (singular or plural) will be responsible for paying the entire judgement even above the contracted policy limits.
I detest having insurance to cover the criminal conduct of any of the defendants in this case. The damages should come out of their pockets and not the other insurance rate payers. Not only should they ALL go to jail and be fined the maximum allowed under all applicable law, they should be financially destroyed. It won’t bring the dead woman back but it sure will teach a vivid and meaningful lesson that will not be taught if insurance pays the entire bill. I may be in for a pleasant surprise if the policy excludes criminal conduct and is merely covering the expenses of litigation to prevent the company from being sued for wrongful denial of coverage. “Nothing is simple.”
The civil action for damages does not stop the criminal prosecution.
Carolyne says
When will the West learn that Somali Muslims are the least civilized people on earth and stop expecting them to behave as a human beings? It is not possible. They are the worst of the worst.
Giacomo Latta says
What I find funny, well, bizarre, is that those who love identity politics are the same who rail against profiling.
Frank Anderson says
G.L. those same people rave about separating children from adults who may or may not be their parents at the US border while they advocate unrestrained abortion that separates children from life. I think they would support post-birth abortion, infanticide, if they ever thought about it. Chaos and confusion has been the basic weapon of Communism by any label as long as it has been around. I think the description of “sociopath”, a person who has no sense of legal, moral or ethical restraint or boundaries, applies. The only thing that matters is to destroy what we have so they can take over. Then look at the total misery where they have in other countries.