The Minnesota Supreme Court vacated the third-degree murder conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor on Wednesday (September 15).
On July 15, 2017, Noor fatally shot Justine Ruszczyk while responding to a 911 call she placed about a possible assault behind her home.
Noor testified that he feared for his partner’s life as Ruszczyk approached their squad car in the dark, empty alley.
But, Hennepin County prosecutors said Noor overreacted and failed to properly assess the situation before firing a gunshot into Ruszczyk’s abdomen.
Mohamed Noor was convicted of third-degree murder, but the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that there was insufficient evidence to sustain the conviction.
The court ordered that Noor be sentenced on his conviction of second-degree manslaughter, a lesser charge.
Watch the news report below for a better understanding of the overturned conviction.
My thoughts and prayers are with Justine’s family.
Your thoughts?
Source: CNN
I want him to be held to the same standard as other officers. Accordingly, he should not be in jail.
All the other cops walked, so why he can’t walk. Oh I forgot she a privileged white woman!! So they had to make an example out of this particular cop.????
Of all the white cops who get off for shooting unarmed black
men in the BACK….of all the white cops who’ve shot black people during times they were in their own homes SLEEPING, in the SHOWER, sitting in their living rooms watching TV and eating Ice Cream, we seriously have to watch a black cop one of the ONLY cops PERIOD convicted of shooting an unarmed person (mind you, a WHITE woman) get pulled through this ridiculous white Supremacist legal system! I swear, the ONLY thing that I can call the population decline of Caucasian people in Amerikkka is (FINALLY) JUSTICE!!!