Minneapolis police shooting policy was also on trial in Noor case
By: Libor Jany, Star Tribune
MINNEAPOLIS — Over the course of two days on the witness stand, ex-Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor repeatedly emphasized that his training prompted him to fire his service weapon at Justine Ruszczyk Damond after she suddenly appeared outside his squad car.
The jury didn’t buy it, and Noor now awaits a likely prison sentence.
Yet even before his conviction for third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in Damond’s death, the closely watched murder trial had placed the police department’s policies under a microscope, raising questions about whether officers are too quick to use lethal force.
