Meanwhile, in recent police killings of unarmed black men in the Twin Cities, white cops involved were either not charged at all or acquitted of charges. Noor’s conviction marks the first guilty verdict for a fatal shooting by an on-duty cop in Minnesota in decades - something that brings both relief to advocates who seek greater accountability for police shootings but also anguish, as residents wrestle with the racial realities of the conviction.
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“There would have been no trial if Noor’s victim was African American or Native American, and I think the vast majority of people in our movement believe that.” Activists held up signs for other local victims of police shootings, like Tycel Nelson, a 17-year-old shot and killed in Minneapolis in 1990, and Philip Quinn, a 30-year-old shot and killed by a St. Paul police in 2017, and Don Amorosi who lost his 16-year-old son to Carver County deputies last summer. The case has galvanized local activists, some of whom embraced the verdict and others who say that, in a criminal justice system where cops are rarely held accountable for on-duty killings, Noor was unfairly targeted because he is a black man who killed a white woman.Īt the rally, Leslie Redmond, the president of the Minneapolis branch of the NAACP, said the case was a “scapegoat” against a man of color to fool residents into thinking “the police force is in tact.” Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights lawyer and local racial justice leader, said Noor’s conviction reveals how the court system treats white people differently compared to everyone else.įamily members of other police shooting victims gave speeches, including Kimberly Handy-Jones, a mother who lost her 29-year-old son to St. Noor shot and killed her, and at trial, he claimed self-defense.
A day earlier, a Hennepin County jury found 33-year-old Noor guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, who had called the police to report a possible sexual assault in her neighborhood in the summer of 2017. Womack faces kidnapping, felonious assault, and abduction charges.On Wednesday evening, outside the Hennepin County government building in downtown Minneapolis, a few dozen community activists gathered in the cold to process the rare and polarizing conviction of Mohamed Noor, a Somali American and former police officer. He is currently in their custody and awaits extradition proceedings. Parker told News Center 7′s Kayla McDermott she is broken over what she and her roommate went through and has no idea how she is ever going to recover mentally from this.Īfter a manhunt, Womack was taken into custody at gunpoint by the Allen County Sheriff’s Office near Fort Wayne, Indiana. She tried to break her way out of the basement, but then found a phone downstairs to call 911 and get help for her roommate who told deputies she was still in pain.ĭeputies took a door off its hinges to make space for medics, and after lying on the floor for more than five hours paramedics finally got Parker’s roommate on a stretcher and in an ambulance.
Parker said he then set up barricade and left. “She fell from the second stair I heard him push her,” Parker said. Parker’s boyfriend, Womack, is the one they say did this. RELATED: Man accused of kidnapping, injuring 2 women in Clark County arrested in IndianaĪt the bottom of the steps there was a woman with an open knee fracture and her roommate Sarah Parker crying and trying to help.
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