Killing of Justine Damond
Occurring weeks after a high-profile manslaughter trial acquittal in the 2016 police killing of Philando Castile, also in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area, the shooting exacerbated existing tensions and attracted national and international press.[10][7] Justine Maia Damond (April 4, 1977 – July 15, 2017) grew up in the Northern Beaches area of Sydney, New South Wales, and attended Manly High School.[17] Noor had been lauded in the past by Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges and the local Somali community as one of the first Somali-American police officers in the area.[19] In September 2018, it was reported that in 2015, two psychiatrists and other training officers had raised concerns about Noor's fitness for police duty.Two months before the shooting, Noor allegedly pointed a gun at the head of a driver he had pulled over for a minor traffic violation.[23] Harrity would later indicate "that he was startled by a loud sound near the squad" and, just then, Damond approached the police car's driver-side window.[35] The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) issued a statement calling the non-use of body cameras "unacceptable".The Minneapolis Police Conduct Oversight Commission concurred with the ACLU opinion that "body cameras should be on at all times.[40] Harrity's attorney Fred Bruno told the Star Tribune that "it's certainly reasonable" to assume any officer would be concerned about an ambush.In a televised interview, he dismissed the claims of Harrity's attorney (that it was reasonable for the officers to fear ambush) as "disinformation".The Somali-American Police Association issued a statement after the verdict claiming that racial bias contributed to Noor's conviction.Damond's family expressed disappointment in the length of Noor's incarceration calling it "trivial" and "disrespectful" to community expectations about improvements to police behavior and culture.[72] George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, was compared to the killing of Damond and the successful criminal case against Noor.Some felt that the local judicial system was inconsistent and that it did not hold white police officers who killed black men accountable for their actions.[73][74] In June 2020, reflecting on the murder of Floyd and the killing of his daughter, John Ruszczyk said:[75] We were satisfied that Justine's killer was found guilty, but we remained concerned that the police force, as an institution was deeply flawed.The fact that another person has died at the hands of the Minneapolis police using excessive force shows that they have not made adequate changes to their practices and training as we had been told they would after Justine's murder.
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