Welcome to migrant privilege.
We hear a great deal about “privilege” in America these days, but the truth is that those who are supposed to have it do not, and those who claim to be marginalized are actually the elites. Anyone who doubts this should study the case of Mohamed Noor, the Somali Muslim migrant cop in Minneapolis who shot an unarmed woman, Justine Damond, to death. His murder conviction was recently overturned, and now he has been sentenced to less than five years in prison for manslaughter. Despite the appalling leniency of this, some people are enraged that he got that long a sentence. Of course. The privileged expect their privileges to be unstinting.
The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Noor’s sentence was “the most the judge could impose but less than half the 12½ years he was sentenced to for his murder conviction that was overturned last month.” Noor “was initially convicted of third-degree murder and manslaughter in the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a 40-year-old dual U.S.-Australian citizen and yoga teacher who was engaged to be married. But the Minnesota Supreme Court tossed out Noor’s murder conviction and sentence last month, saying the third-degree murder statute didn’t fit the case because it can only apply when a defendant shows a ‘generalized indifference to human life,’ not when the conduct is directed at a particular person, as it was with Damond.”
Oh. Yeah, sure. In other words, “We wanted to make sure this guy didn’t serve hard time, and we found a way.” This was because Noor is a member of a privileged victim class: “Noor, who is Somali American, was believed to be the first Minnesota officer convicted of murder for an on-duty shooting. Activists who had long called for officers to be held accountable for the deadly use of force applauded the murder conviction but lamented that it came in a case in which the officer is Black and his victim was white. Some questioned whether the case was treated the same as...
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The news left out she was in her bath robe and was on the opposite side of the car from him. He shot across/right in front of his partner (who was in the drivers seat as I remember) to shoot her. Now charge him with civil rights violations and he will get 99 years, oh wait the Feds do the prosecution of that and he does not fit the templet for prosecution
ReplyDeleteOnly white people can be charged with civil rights violations and hate crimes.
ReplyDeleteThe time is approaching where the judicial system, cops,local, state and fed govt's are only protecting themselves, they are fully committed to that you "serve" them, not the lie of being "public servants". The western states idea of "shoot, shovel and shutup" is going to be your only way of curbing government. They currently have zero fear of you or that any repercussions are coming back at them. Guerilla warfare is the answer.
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