My latest in FrontPage:
We hear a great deal about “privilege” in America these days, but the truth is that those who are supposed to have it do not, and those who claim to be marginalized are actually the elites. Anyone who doubts this should study the case of Mohamed Noor, the Somali Muslim migrant cop in Minneapolis who shot an unarmed woman, Justine Damond, to death. His murder conviction was recently overturned, and now he has been sentenced to less than five years in prison for manslaughter. Despite the appalling leniency of this, some people are enraged that he got that long a sentence. Of course. The privileged expect their privileges to be unstinting.
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Noor’s sentence was “the most the judge could impose but less than half the 12½ years he was sentenced to for his murder conviction that was overturned last month.” Noor “was initially convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a 40-year-old dual U.S.-Australian citizen and yoga teacher who was engaged to be married. But the Minnesota Supreme Court tossed out Noor’s murder conviction and sentence last month, saying the third-degree murder statute didn’t fit the case because it can only apply when a defendant shows a ‘generalized indifference to human life,’ not when the conduct is directed at a particular person, as it was with Damond.”
Oh. Yeah, sure. In other words, “We wanted to make sure this guy didn’t serve hard time, and we found a way.” This was because Noor is a member of a privileged victim class: “Noor, who is Somali American, was believed to be the first Minnesota officer convicted of murder for an on-duty shooting. Activists who had long called for officers to be held accountable for the deadly use of force applauded the murder conviction but lamented that it came in a case in which the officer is Black and his victim was white. Some questioned whether the case was treated the same as police shootings involving Black victims.”
Noor’s father, Mohamed Abass, was enraged. He “denounced Quaintance on his way out of the courthouse as ‘the worst judge in Minnesota’ and ‘very hateful.’ Speaking to reporters, he said, ‘This judge hates (the) Somali community’ and said he believed racism was a factor in her decision to impose the toughest sentence she could.”
Of course! Racism is everywhere, right? Why not here?
Back on planet earth, Mohamed Noor’s father is furious that this sentence is so long, but it is actually a very light sentence for killing a human being, and reflects Mohamed Noor’s privilege as a Somali Muslim migrant in Minneapolis. 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. And it became increasingly clear — as we learned 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 Ruszczyk Damond, he would likely have done something similar at some point.
Mohamed Noor was not competent to be a police officer. If he had not been a Somali and a Muslim, he never would have been on the force at all. Identity politics kills. If there was any lesson to be drawn from the killing of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, that was 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. Even worse, Minneapolis officials did not fire him even when he proved that he was indeed unfit to be a cop.
And now, less than five years for killing a woman. Amid all the hysteria and propaganda about “white supremacy,” Mohamed Noor’s story shows who has the real privilege in America today.
Kagman says
Compare this to Derek Chauvin who had his knee on the neck of a fentanyl overdose victim…. Chauvin’s life is essentially over with a 20+ year sentence. This clown who wantonly killed a blond, white woman – complete unarmed, acting with complete innocence… Under 5 years…..
This is what the vermin left has done…
maria says
Yes it is terrible. He should be executed, and the judges should be kicked out and get life sentence.
gravenimage says
Actually, this judge levied the toughest sentence she could under the circumstances. Not all judges are bad.
Bob C says
sounds about right
can’t punish him for a “cultural norm” of murder
mortimer says
Diversity hire + diversity reduction of sentence = injustice all around.
Next time, hire someone who doesn’t need 13% to 15% extra points to get bumped up to ‘pass’ level. And then when something goes wrong, the officer should be judged with the same RIGOR as a judge would any other officer assuming that justice was TRULY BLIND and impartial to persons.
PRCS says
“Noor’s father, Mohamed Abass, was enraged. He “denounced Quaintance on his way out of the courthouse as ‘the worst judge in Minnesota’ and ‘very hateful.’ Speaking to reporters, he said, ‘This judge hates (the) Somali community’ and said he believed racism was a factor in her decision to impose the toughest sentence she could.”
Of course! Racism is everywhere, right? Why not here?”
Oh, yes, there is; right there in Minneapolis
Not the racism daddy wants to talk about.
See this notorious Minnesota CAIR rep’s racist thoughts about white people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FvqCAkSKjQ
See @ 0.37
maria says
All the Somalis should be deported and those are murderers should be executed. And their money and belongings should be confiscated
Wellington says
The great lie of our time in America: white privilege exists.
The great truth of our time in America: black privilege exists.
What a phony world we live in. As a “minor” example, take note that while black Americans constitute only some 12-13% of the American population, they are now appearing in about 90% of commercials and advertisements.. Oh yeah, phoniness through and through. So forced and obvious to so many.
And I want to be very clear: I don’t care what race, ethnicity or gender a person is (N.B., for the record I think there are only two genders), but I hate phoniness, which is always due to such negatives as cowardice, avarice and overall ignorance.
somehistory says
Yes, the “great lie.”
Where I do laundry, a young lady, who is, at least part, Native American works there…and when she’s there, things are orderly and clean.
She was speaking with me a few days ago about a new hire…won’t say what ‘race’ the new person is, but she didn’t clean anything, etc. and the owner told the lady I spoke with that he “would talk to her.”
We got into the whole “White” people bad, racist, can’t change even if we want to, etc. and she was saying it’s so wrong.
Some people can see it for what it is. If you or I did a survey of ordinary people, I believe we would find that the “great lie” is propaganda to most people ‘out there.’ Like most of that sort of thing, more and more began to believe it, the longer they hear it. And that’s unfortunate…at the very least. Evil at its worst.
Henry Dillon Mansfield says
I can’t post here anymore.
gravenimage says
Looks like you posted fine, Henry. If you are posting from a new address or even haven’t posted for a while–I haven’t seen your comments for a bit–your posts can get hung up until cleared. BUt you should be fine. Glad to see you back.
Reziac says
The new spamtrapper locks out SeaMonkey browser. (This commonly happens with reCAPTCHA everywhere, but this was something new.) I can only post if I use Chrome. This is why I’ve had nothing to say for a while.
As to this Somali jihadist (because that’s what he really is) one can hope that he encounters a little prison justice. But my guess is there’ll be endless appeals and other delays and he’ll never serve his time, such as it is. Besides, the Somali “community” just might riot.
gravenimage says
Reziac, have you contacted Marc Louis, Jihad Watch’s tech guy? He can usually help. Use the “Contact Us” box on the right-hand side of the page.
And it is good to see you posting again.
Raja says
Reziac,
I have had this nagging problem of not being able to post through Chrome. After switching over to Edge it is fine. This problem persisted for about 10 days.
In my case, change of laptop was the issue.
Reziac says
I’m also having problems posting here. Keep getting hung up in the “prove you’re a human” trap. A lot of such active spamtrappers only work with Chrome. (Normally I use SeaMonkey.)
Islamaphone says
“third-degree murder statute didn’t fit the case because it can only apply when a defendant shows a ‘generalized indifference to human life’”
So, shooting dead just 1 woman doesn’t show a ‘generalized indifference to human life’. I see.
gravenimage says
Privilege: Somali Muslim Cop in Minneapolis Gets Less Than Five Years for Killing an Unarmed Woman
……………….
Yes–this *is* privilege, of the worst kind.
Reziac says
You misspelled “spoiled rotten”.
They need to go back.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Reziac. He never should have been allowed into Minnesota, let alone on the police force.
Walter Sieruk says
This hideous injustice is an example of who in insidious politically correct ideology has infected infested contaminated , corrupted the American court of law . To the most heinous extent that the US court system is a sick wicked “joke.” As seen in this case in which a blatant guilty murderer gets of with such a light sentence.
The American justice” system is now a PC system of injustice, terribly so.
In never want to ,or will serve if called for jury duty because the American court system of law is just a hideous hoax
Walter Sieruk says
That politically correct court ruling and affront shows that the US legal system with its American courts is now nothing but a hoax.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
I wonder if the illegal alien, Ilhan Omar,
held any sway in the decision of the court on this one. She is another study in the Injustice foisted upon the law abiding legal citizens of America.
somehistory says
His eyes are dead. He has no conscience, bred and raised to devalue life, esp that of women, and now, they all hate White, so she was the worst of the worst for him…a white woman, in pj’s, meaning not covered from head to toe.
He couldn’t have had any idea about her “personally” so that she was “targeted” by his “‘generalized indifference to human life,” but, in fact, it was his “generalized indifference to human life” that motivated him, taught to him by his father and his mozlum clerics.
The court…the “judges”…made a huge error. Perhaps they made it on purpose, with a “generalized indifference” to the innocent life and a special interest in seeing that a mozlum male goes free very soon….no matter what he did to another human.
Grossly incompetent and a miscarriage of justice. Divine Justice will have to see that this filth is punished and that those who allowed him his freedom see some Justice too.
Eleanor says
I don’t like to comment on people’s physical appearances, BUT, his eyes gave me the shivers! Definitely something not right there.
gravenimage says
You see this with Jihadists and hard core criminals all the time. This isn’t really about personal appearances.
Randy says
Justine Damond does not equal George Floyd. That criminal drug addict is worth 8 Justine Damonds.
İntersistemteknik says
The penalty for killing an unarmed person should not be this low.
Dhimmi says
This was his culture. In Somalia and in many islamic countries a policeman can kill and abuse the citizens. He nearly got away with murder even in the United States
James Lincoln says
Agree with Robert Spencer:
“Identity politics kills.”
Mohamed Noor was hired for that very reason: a “protected” minority.
Results?
One totally innocent dead white woman and a former police officer who now has to spend at least a few years in prison.
Naturally, his sentence should have been *much* longer, but there are no winners here.
Never when identity politics “rules”…
gravenimage says
+1
Spiro says
Good thing he’s not
A white guy or white cop he would have gotten life
Once again the fools
Vote
somehistory says
A “White cop” who did that would deserve life in prison, just as this pretend officer with a loaded weapon deserves.
The “White cop” would have gotten it as you say, but it was deserved, no matter the race of the shooter/murderer.
Sherry Miller says
Of course this had nothing to do with the fact that this is Ilhan Omar’s congressional district, does it?
gravenimage says
Certainly this whole region has been infiltrated by Muslims–especially from Somalia.