Mohamed Noor is a Somali Muslim, the first Somali Muslim on the Minneapolis police force. In 2016, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges expressed her excitement about that fact: “I want to take a moment to recognize Officer Mohamed Noor, the newest Somali officer in the Minneapolis Police Department. Officer Noor has been assigned to the 5th Precinct, where his arrival has been highly celebrated, particularly by the Somali community in and around Karmel Mall.”
Hodges wasn’t excited because Mohamed Noor had the skills necessary to become a fine police officer. She was only excited because he represented a religious and ethnic group that she was anxious to court. And it became increasingly clear — as we learned about Mohamed Noor’s nervousness and jumpiness and lack of respect for women, and from his own account of events that he relayed to friends (that he was “startled” and reacted by opening fire) — that Mohamed Noor was not cut out to be a policeman. He did not have the temperament for it, and if he hadn’t killed Justine Ruszczyk Damond, he would likely have done something similar at some point.
Mohamed Noor was not competent to be a police officer. If he had not been a Somali and a Muslim, he never would have been on the force at all. Identity politics kills. If there was any lesson to be drawn from the killing of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, that was it. The city of Minneapolis was so eager to have a Somali Muslim police officer on the force that it hired a man who had been found incompetent to hold the job. Even worse, Minneapolis officials did not fire him even when he proved that he was indeed unfit to be a cop.
Now the rioters who are burning down Minneapolis want Noor freed. This is one small indication that these riots are the ugly result of decades of miseducation in which people have been relentlessly hammered with the idea that race and gender and ethnicity are paramount, nothing else matters, and America is intrinsically and systematically racist. So if Mohamed Noor is in prison, it doesn’t matter what he did. He is there solely because he is black, Somali, and Muslim, and must be freed. As the burning of Minneapolis shows, identity politics kills even those who assiduously courted the groups it anoints as victims, and hence sinless and to be preferred over all others.
Minneapolis: Somali rioters shout “Free Mohamed Noor” on CNN.
Mohamed Noor was MPD’s first Somali cop who shot and killed a white woman who called police for help. pic.twitter.com/I2VxGOi56h
— Chris Menahan ?? (@infolibnews) May 30, 2020
“WATCH: Rioters Call for Somali Cop Who Killed White Woman to Be Freed on CNN,” District Herald, May 30, 2020:
A pair of rioters called for the Somali cop who killed a white woman who had called for help to be freed from prison during an interview with CNN.
The rioters, who claim to be against police brutality, were shouting “Free Mohamed Noor.”
Noor was setenced [sic] to 12 and a half years in prison for the 3rd degree murder of Justine Damond, who had moved to the US from Australia to live with her fiance. She called police on July 15, 2017, because she believed that someone might be being sexually assaulted behind their house….
During the riot, a CNN reporter asked the two masked men what “justice” would look like in the case of George Floyd.
The rioters declared, “the same thing which happened to Mohamed Noor.”
“We want a prosecution, that’s what we want,” they said.
“Free Mohamed Noor!” one of them shouted.
“Free that man right now!” the other declared.
“Thank you guys, please be safe out there,” the CNN reporter said….
Noor was a diversity hire who claimed that he had been startled by the 40-year-old yoga teacher. He was the first Somali-American police officer in the city’s Fifth Precinct. He was also the first police officer in Minnesota to be convicted of murder.
Information Liberation noted that “whereas Derek Michael Chauvin was fired and charged immediately, Noor was placed on paid leave for eight months before being charged.”…
revereridesagain says
Well, that was bound to happen. After all, her life didn’t “matter”. And she was just an uncovered kafir female. And he isn’t the danger, he is “in danger”. And he didn’t mean to kill her out of malice, he was just “startled”. And kafirs have no right to pass judgment on the slaves of Allah anyway. And keeping him in prison is “Islamophobic”.
Did I leave anything out?
SemiDave says
How about “Black”? “Somali”? Let’s give the old race card a flash while we have the “Islamophobia” card unholstered and waving around shall we. No, you got it all revereridesagain.
keith O says
That will be pretty much the rhetoric from the leftard window lickers.
sweetolbob says
And after he serves his twelve and a half years, She is still dead ! Seems to me that the sentences should be equal !
RichardL says
In LA they set a synagogue on fire. Trump lanced the islamic-left boil and now the pus explodes. This is opening many lefties eyes and will be great for American sanity. Nobody rioted because Noor killed a white, unarmed woman.
Stanton Lore says
Nicely said.
gravenimage says
Yes, Richard–why set a synagogue on fire? They had nothing to do with excessive force used by police.
By the way, during the “Occupy” movement, there were a lot of rioters who wore Kafiyas (“Palestinian” style scarves) and shouted Allahu Akbar! here in Oakland. I would not be surprised if there was some of the same this time.
mgoldberg says
We haven’t heard any of this reality: that M Noor, a Somali Muslim cop who was deemed a poor cop before he murdered a white women and who’s case was resisted until public pressure mounted to have it and his sentencing was indeed more than justified. And no riots and no calls over racism or bigotry. This should be shouted out for the hypocrisy it is and represents, just as all the other vicious destructions represent the hateful emptiness of the left and the america haters. Throw it up in the face of all the hypocritical politicos who dared not mention that one then, or now…
SemiDave says
Well said mgoldberg!
LB says
Slightly off topic, but I would like someone from USA to explain this to me.
So… A black man gets killed by a white cop (seemingly unjustly, but the investigations is still ongoing) and blacks decide to “riot” (but actually they just loot and pillage). Why? Someone explain. And these “riots” aren’t exactly a new phenomenon either.
Aren’t white people getting shot by black cops as well? Or has that never happened in the history of USA? I’d wager to guess the former to be true. In that case, why aren’t whites rioting in the streets every time it happens?
Something’s not right here… Or am I missing something obvious?
Bad Penguin says
Your questions are valid. Yes white people are being shot by black cops but to the race baiters thats just payback. Simple fact is most black people being killed or wounded every day in america are killed/wounded by other blacks.
However, there are many people of color that are peacefully protesting the death however the rioters and looters are not protesting anything, they just want to destroy and steal. BTW if you go back to previous riots/looting done in the name of social justice you will see that there are no whites involved and the reason is they would have been targeted by the blacks for violence. In these lootings 30-50% of the participants are white and they seem to be working like teammates of the black looters. Thats a sure indication these riots/looting are part of a coordinated effort to destabilize the country. Follow the money.
underbed cat says
Rules for radicals never brings peace, even in organized protests, the word justice means something different in their mind… a video clip looks awful, death occurs, but may not or may tell the entire story,.a angry venting leads to justification for many and violence and looting, that went on for days and should have been stopped day 2, however the crowds were too large, the media came running even annoucing new schedules for other planned repeats. If you question or say the wrong thing, like “wait for the investigaton ” about the situation you likely risk injury. What happened to the people whose cars were torched? Businesses lit on fire after ransacked? Slammed in the head with a brick? Racial injustice …..when they kill each other. Nope. Silence. Antifa and BLM is a mind set….not a solution to a problem that can’t be identified or examined if drugs, liquer or sober but uncontrolled hostility power is first employed as if it is a solution except for the victims.
Wellington says
LB: In America, per FBI statistics, a policemen is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a young black male than the other way around. Per the same statistics, the killing of blacks by police has gone down some 75% over the past two decades or so while the killing of whites has remained the same (has stayed flat lined as Larry Elder, himself black, mentioned just the other night). What’s as bad if not worse is that young black men kill other young black men (and sometimes black women and black children too) at an alarming rate. Yearly in Chicago alone, twice as many young black males kill or seriously wound other blacks as American policemen kill or seriously wound blacks across the entire nation in a year.
The greatest enemy of black America is black America. I wish black America well but it simply doesn’t have its act together and it needs to quit blaming whitey for its own massively dysfunctional pathologies. Some 70% of black babies are born out of wedlock, which is a prescription for societal disaster. Blacks commit well over 50% of the killings while making up only about 13% of the population. I live very near a major American city and it is rare that a single day goes by that some black has not killed or seriously harmed some other black (sometimes a white or Asian but overwhelmingly it’s black on black violence). After a while you start getting numb to the rampant violence in the black community. When a black kills a white, it will get a brief mention on the news (if even this) and then it is forgotten by the MSM. In 1950 nine out of ten interracial crimes were whites harming blacks. Now it is virtually the opposite—nine out of ten interracial crimes are blacks harming whites.
Blacks talk about oppression. Yeah, they oppress themselves. I have asked many people over the past five years or so how is white America in any way stopping a motivated, talented black person from succeeding in any career of their choosing? In fact, blacks that do study hard in school are made fun of by other blacks for acting like whitey—this “phenomenon” has been reported so many times I lost track years ago.
A huge part of the problem is liberalism which fosters a victim-oriented mentality, a grievance mentality, and with the expectation that the government will oversee the welfare of blacks, which ironically comes close often times to, in effect, the white plantation master in antebellum days taking care of his slaves. Jason Riley, a prominent black journalist and one who sees all the harm that the welfare state has caused to black America, has written a book whose title says it all—“Please Stop Helping Us.”
As I wrote not long before here at JW, there is no group of Americans I admire more than black conservatives who have to put up with all kinds of ridicule from the Left. Yes indeed, modern liberalism wants to keep blacks on the plantation—the welfare plantation. And the results continue to be disastrous. The Left ruins everything it touches—education, the NFL, gender, finance, the Boy Scouts, religion, defense, America itself. And it has ruined, absolutely ruined, the black community which has effectively been told it does not have to bear responsibility for its actions. It’s all whitey’s fault. No it is not and the white privilege rot is just more of the same nonsense which continues the grievance mentality that daily pulls black America down. And Obama only made things worse. He stoked the flames of racial division and matters are now even worse than before his Presidency.
This is just a summary of the situation as I see it from a white American point of view. It’s easy for me to write what I did but just because something is easy to say doesn’t make it erroneous.
Finally, I do want to mention that the specific George Floyd incident is indeed appalling. That policeman, Derek Chauvin, should have never been a policeman. The vast majority of police are capable and humane but there are rotten cops and Derek Chauvin is one of them.
gravenimage says
Fine post.
James Lincoln says
Excellent post, Wellington.
SemiDave says
Well said Wellington.
GreekEmpress says
You outdid yourself Wellington!
+1000
LB says
Thank you for the detailed and informative explanation, Wellington. Even though I’m from Eastern Europe, I’m closely monitoring the situation in the West (USA and UK in particular), so I kind of already knew all that on some level. But I figured someone from USA who actually lives with black people would explain better.
I have one final question for you: What do you think the root cause of all the problems–which you described in detail–of blacks in the USA is? Is it solely the fault of the Left’s plantation brainwashing, or is it something more intrinsic in nature? Or both?
At least we can all agree on the fact that–despite how the racebaiting media, politicians, BLM, and other groups try to portray it–the fault does NOT lie with white people (at least in these last dozen decades or so) in any shape or form. Correct?
sweetolbob says
The root cause here is Antifa. That subversive, Soros financed, bunch of radical property destroyers and arsonists. The “YOU LOOT, WE SHOOT order should have been in place from the beginning !
The riot starters were not even from the locality. They didn’t give a Tinkers Dam about who did what to whom, but were interested only in fomenting riot. They were and are usually aided by a bunch of aborigines of all colors who are only interested in stealing.
How does new clothes, or furniture, or a couple of cases of free beer equate to justice for anyone ? Shoot to kill !
Wellington says
LB: I would assert that the root cause of the problem, if indeed one can cite only one cause, is modern liberalism, call it leftism if you like. Conservative blacks don’t foster a victim mentality, don’t expect the federal government to be a sugar daddy, they cherish America (though knowing it has done wrong but has tried to set things right), they don’t look upon the police as the enemy, they just want to move on, be successful, raise a family and be proud of being an American.
Unfortunately, most black Americans are not conservative and that’s a damn shame. For a long time now I have said that if 99% of black Americans woke up the next day and were committed Ronald Reagan conservatives that would do more to aid black America (and all of America for that matter) in a decade than a thousand years of liberalism would.
LB says
I see. Thanks for you input, Wellington. It means a lot.
It’s just as you said — the overwhelming majority of blacks aren’t conservative. The question is: why is that the case? I’ve seen multiple arguments about it online, but the general consensus is that living a life free of responsibilities of any kind (studying, working hard, raising children in wedlock, etc…) is MUCH EASIER than the hard-working responsible conservative alternative.
The discussions diverge at this point when asking the question “why do they like to take the easy way out?” Needless to say, as you mentioned, that that choice is further encouraged by the overly-generous welfare system and all kinds of “diversity” policies which are suppose to help black people get ahead in life compared to other races (not just whites but also Asians and other racial groups), but I don’t think that’s all there is to it.
Anyway, I don’t want to bother you further. Thanks for your time, sir.
Hugo says
Could somebody explain this. Kill a Chinese person, the Chinese don’t burn down China town. Kill a German nothing; hispanic, frenchman, ozi, thai, russian all the same – nothing. Kill an African and every African in the USA goes out on a rampage.
Why?
ronit says
‘killing’ is still bad, in India even if a muslim gets injured in an accident instead of taking him to a hospital they start rioting and damaging public property, the root issue I guess is the same.. they don’t love their respective countries.
Iambob says
“Kill an African and every African in the USA goes out on a rampage.”
Are you suggesting that if a black person is killed every ‘African’ (black) person in America ‘goes on a rampage? Please answer. I’m waiting to hear how you try to defend your patently racist rhetoric.
Stanton Lore says
You went too far, Hugo. “Kill an African and every African in the USA goes out on a rampage.” If you make a point, make it with logic and good sense. You conclusion is fanyasy.
gravenimage says
Good posts, Iambob and Stanton Lore. A lot of African Americans are actually disgusted by these riots.
gravenimage says
Rioters here in Oakland vandalized and looted small restaurants in Chinatown–as if they had anything to do with excessive force used by police.
JOSS says
Low IQ!
ronit says
Lol… so my hunch was right. As I wrote on a previous post that these rioters are directly/indirectly supported by Islamists. It doesn’t matter what kind of riots they are or what they pretend to be, you will always find an Islamist angle after the final investigation.
gravenimage says
You aren’t wrong, ronit:
“Iranian official: ‘We have to make our presence felt in the conflict in America that involves blacks’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/05/iranian-official-we-have-to-make-our-presence-felt-in-the-conflict-in-america-that-involves-blacks
No Muzzies Here says
Ah!, so it’s not about cops killing citizens! It’s hatred for anything White or Christian.
The Somali cop got 12.5 years of prison. It’s a safe bet that he will be out of prison long before his sentence has been served.
gravenimage says
Video: Rioters call for freeing of Muslim migrant cop who killed unarmed woman in Minneapolis
……………….
This is proof that this–for some of these rioters, at least–is *not* about wrongful killings by police, but just about race or being the “right” kind of situation–i.e., a Muslim killing a non-violent white victim is fine. *Ugh*.
Henry Mansfield says
A map of the world with countries shaded for average IQ is quite revealing.
Somalia comes in at the very bottom, from memory the average IQ there would land a child in the USA in special education.
Add to that centuries of first cousin marriage as approved under Islam and the resultant low threshold for violence and the ‘celebration’ around Minneapolis City Hall over the hiring of it’s first Somali police officer becomes the stuff of dark comedy.
If a meteor hit Somalia tomorrow the world would be a better place.
Sharon ODonnell says
She heard someone being raped and called the Cops .
This new somali Policeman shot her thru the car window
Have you seen the video of 30 somalis gangbangers
Going through a Minnesota neighborhood
threatening to rape the Americans at home .?
No shit .
——-Anyone Found looting is subject to domestic terrorism charges .
and Your going to the slammer .
Imported Jihadists Caught are SENT BACK TO SOMALIA.
Enjoy Jail.
Stop burning people’s shit up.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, police in cities across the country have been told not to do anything to stop the destruction and looting.
Mo says
“Video: Rioters call for freeing of Muslim migrant cop who killed unarmed woman in Minneapolis”
Of course. And they will likely get it.
By the way, where were the riots (sorry, “protests”) on HER behalf?
infidel says
Fishing in troubled waters – THY NAME – is ISLAM AND MUSLIMS
E Maria says
That’s the problem with Americans in our country ! They believe that Muslimes are peace loving people. Yeah, until they take over your city, state and your country ! The biggest problem is that Barak Hussein O. let many of Somalian radical Islamist’s into our country and also hired many Islamist’s to work in the White House that we are now inundated with these beasts ! We are an inch of being taken over not only by the Democratic Communist party of America, but the Islamist terrorists in our country !!!
gravenimage says
What country is this? Many throughout the West believe that Islam is a “religion of peace”–it is not just some Americans who have made this harmful mistake.