See the CNN story here. Noor won’t speak to investigators. That’s his right under the constitution. At the same time, he is a police officer who took an oath to defend the community. But which community? Sorry for being blunt, but the balkanization of Minneapolis, the continual harassment of women and gays by Somali Muslims, and the recruitment of dozens of young men from the city for al-Shabaab in Somalia and for ISIS in Syria and Iraq (one of the reason why restrictions on Somali refugees was imposed by the current administration) makes assumptions of good will problematic. The circumstances of the shooting are very strange. Gangs of Somali males have been roaming the Minneapolis sexually harassing and assaulting women (this has been going on for years, apparently, but kept quiet as it is in Europe). Justine Ruszczyk reports what she suspected was a rape in progress in the alley behind the house (what do we know about this?). A Somali police officer, a hero to the Somali community, with several complaints against him, arrives at the scene and promptly shoots Ruszczyk dead. They did not have the body cameras turned on. Why not? Maybe he’s an idiot who shouldn’t be a cop (he is hardly the only one of these). But maybe he is a bit more interesting than that. The family is frustrated by the reluctance of the city to be forthcoming.
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