[Heavy.com] Mohamed Noor, the Minneapolis police officer who is accused of shooting and killing Justine Damond, an Australian yoga teacher and spiritual healer, was the first Somali-American officer in his precinct.
A year ago, the arrival of Noor on the Minnesota police force was celebrated by the mayor and Somali community he hails from. There is a pending federal complaint against him, though, by a former social worker from Minneapolis who says Noor and other officers violated her constitutional rights in March by ordering her detention at a hospital ...
"Three sources with knowledge of the incident said Sunday that two officers in one squad car, responding to the 911 call, pulled into the alley. Damond, in her pajamas, went to the driver's side door and was talking to the driver. The officer in the passenger seat pulled his gun and shot Damond through the driver's side door, sources confirmed. No weapon was found at the scene," the Star Tribune reported. I wasn't sure how to categorize this. Affirmative Action dividends ?
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Talking about this with my daughter yesterday - and she wondered if Officer Noor was a bad seed, with a bad attitude, no self-control, whom could not be gotten rid of or disciplined because he was So Precious to the local powers. She wondered how many partners he had been paired with in his time as a police officer, and if having to work with him wasn't seen as a bit of a punishment for the partner.
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Not sure, but I think his training didn't include shooting across the car cab, past his partner's head and body, through the car door. Just guessing....
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The article mentioned that the police are looking for a person on a bicycle (on a grassy knoll with a candlestick...) who may have witnessed the incident.
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Would hate to think Mr. Noor was placed unvetted as an "outreach" move. Culture counts and, in this case, may have cost a life.
And, as mentioned by Frank G, who the F shoots across their partner and through a car door? Are "Die Hard" movies being shown in Minneapolis as instructional cop videos?
The union will protect Mr. Noor. Who speaks for Ms. Damond?
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And, as mentioned by Frank G, who the F shoots across their partner and through a car door?
Yeah, that is serious WTF? territory. Best explanation, IMHO, is the guy was holding his gun in his lap in anticipation of something jumping off and inadvertently fired it.
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Fireworks that sounded like gunfire doesn't explain why the officers had their body cameras off, or why a weapon was pointed at an innocent giving them info.
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She was a lone woman who left her home without a male escort. She was in her PJs, scantily clad, and not in her BBQ cover. She spoke directly to two strange men at night. Obviously, it was a matter of honor.
The attorney for a Minneapolis police officer whose partner fired a shot through the patrol car window that killed an Australian woman, said Wednesday that it was reasonable for the officers to have feared that they might be targets of an ambush.
Investigators say Officer Matthew Harrity, 25, who has been with the police department for a year, was driving the squad car and his partner, Officer Mohamed Noor, 31, a two-year veteran of the force who fired the fatal shot, was seated on the passenger side.
Harrity’s attorney Fred Bruno told the Star Tribune “it’s certainly reasonable” to assume any officer would be concerned about an ambush. He referenced the recent death of a New York City officer killed in her squad car.
Investigators say the officers were driving with all squad lights off through the alley behind Damond's home when the shooting occurred.
Inexperienced officers whose nerves were screwed to a fever pitch by BLM stories -- that could explain the overreaction to hearing a noise. I'd read that before he refused to talk to investigators, Officer Noor said he had not accidentally discharged his gun. I can't find the link, though -- sorry.
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I've said it before, both officers should be summarily dismissed for not having ANY of their recording devices functioning while on active duty (in addition to whatever innocence or guilt may be found regarding the shooting).
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The cams should be "always on," streamed to an independent third party inspector general that won't conveniently "lose" any footage. As the big names at Gurgle, Amazon and the NSA always like to say, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about..."
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@Sgt. Mom We may never know. /sarc
However, to catch her in the abdomen while firing though the open window from a low angle indicates she was certainly jumping up and down pretty energetically about something.
Or, Noor was idly playing with his gun when someone knocked over a trashcan and startled him. The unexpected discharge through the door sent him into a spasm of fright, causing several more unexpected discharges.
Or something. But he's a great guy, best Somali officer the force has known.
[DailyMail] Senator John McCain was hospitalized Friday after a routine physical discovered a blood clot just behind his left eye.
The 80-year-old Arizona politician had a 5cm clot removed via a minimally invasive craniotomy with an eyebrow incision.
Though the surgery itself was not considered to be too intrusive, McCain's medical history and bouts of melanoma suggests that the clot could be the sign of a much more serious problem.
And after the Senator's confused questioning of ex-FBI head James Comey in June, a number of people have expressed concern for McCain's mental health and are wondering if the clot could have been affecting him in that way.
Friday's procedure was planned after the clot was discovered during a routine physical earlier in the week, according to a statement provided by his office.
Surgeons at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona went in just below McCain's left eyebrow to remove the clot. While they only had to open a small part of his skull, it was still a very serious procedure, and will likely result in a long recovery period.
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We don't let airline pilots, train engineers, ship captains or bus drivers run their vehicles until they keel over. Why should politicians well past their by use date be allowed to pilot the ship of state to ground?
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Can someone explain if this is 5cm long, wide, circumference? Sounds like McCain's career may be over in the coming weeks regardless.
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Trump just canned the program for arming Johnny's Shhhhhhhyrian Moderatessssssch Killersssssch. Maybe the Don thinks McShame is ripe for a serious stroke post op.
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Brain tumor diagnosed to be associated with the blood clot per Dallas Morning News.
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No one wishes that on anyone, well, except most leftists wanting that for anyone they disagree with. Hopefully the Senator will recover and move forward.
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Just read on Drudge that he announced a malignant brain tumor - glioblastoma. Un-treatable, wicked fast growing and fatal. While wishes for a speedy recovery are spurious, best wishes and prayers for you family and yourself
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I lost a friend in a similar situation just a few months ago. It can happen very quickly, then you're gone. Best to cherish each moment we are given.
[DailyMail] - Pictures show Russian fighter pilots from the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment during World War Two
- The feared pilots were dubbed Night Witches by Nazis for their bombing raids during the battle for Stalingrad
- Original black and white photographs have been brought to life by translator Olga Shirnina, from Moscow WARNING: Clicking on the link may indicate you are colluding with "The Rooskies."
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He's talking to the wrong people. He needs to ask the lizard queen about her ancestors. :)
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Just because the question is asked doesn't mean the congressman expects the answer to be yes. He might just want NASA on record as saying no in order to shut up a constituent or something.
[DW] Climate change can be a good thing. At least for the arid Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... in Africa, where rainfall has been increasing as the world warms up. But to avoid dire negative consequences, precautions must be taken now.
The Sahel region could go from one of the driest areas in the world to a very wet one in a couple of decades. That is one conclusion reached by a research paper just published by the Potsdam Institute for Climate research (Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung). "What is new is the observation that there are some scenarios where you get not just a little more rain, but substantially more rain, and it may happen quite suddenly," Jacob Schewe, co-author of the new study, told DW.
This does not come as a surprise to Emmanuel Oladipo, professor of climatology at the University of Lagos, in Nigeria, who emphasized the high degree of volatility of the climate in the region."What appears to be happening now is that the system is tilting to what happened in the sixties. We are getting more rainfall than what we used to get." Data for the last hundred years, compiled by theJoint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, in Washington, USA, show unusually high rainfall from 1950 to 1970. This was followed by years of drought until 1990. Rainfall then returned to almost the former average, although there is now a high variability annually. Nevertheless, experts like Schewe and Oladipo agree that in the last years, rain intensity has increased.
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I can't imagine anything more horrifying, any greater threat to humanity, than the possibility of plants growing in a desert. Funny thing though, the hippopotamus appears in ancient Egyptian art and mythology. But hey, maybe they had desert hippos back then.
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I'm working off memory here and not the Sahel but the Sahara.... The Sahara has something like a 20,000 year cycle. At one point it was like the Everglades. You can see this in cave paintings. Right now it's at the peak of the dry cycle so without interference it will be peak of wet in 10,000 years. What happens is the wet winds from the Indian Ocean switch back and forth from the Congo latitudes to the Cairo ones. When the Sahara is wet Arabia is too.
[DAWN] Saudi police said on Tuesday they were questioning a woman who appeared in an online video in a miniskirt and crop top walking through a historic site in the ultraconservative kingdom.
A series of videos initially posted over the weekend to the Snapchat account of “Model Khulood”, shows a young woman in a high-waisted miniskirt walking through a fort in Ushaiqer, outside the capital Riyadh, playing with sand in the dunes and turning towards the camera for a close-up, her long hair uncovered. The videos have since been uploaded to YouTube and tweeted by different users.
Saudi media, including the main dailies Sabq and Okaz, on Tuesday, quoted a spokesman for police in Riyadh as saying the woman was being questioned and had confessed to visiting the site with her male guardian.
Saudi Arabia's guardianship system mandates accompaniment by or written permission from a male relative — usually a father, husband or brother — for women to study, work or travel.
The woman denied that she had uploaded the clips and that the Snapchat account was hers, the spokesman said.
The case has now been referred to the public prosecutor's office, which will decide whether to prosecute the woman.
The local government of Riyadh had issued a memo saying authorities were searching for the woman who had been “walking around... in indecent clothing”.
The snaps have sparked heated debate, with social media users in the region and beyond weighing in on questions of gender and rights in the kingdom, where women are required to wear long black abaya robes and cover their hair in public.
Saudi Arabia says a woman detained after wearing a miniskirt in a video that went viral has been released without charge.
A statement released by the Center for International Communication said Wednesday that police released the woman, who was not named. It says she was released Tuesday evening after a few hours of questioning. The statement said the video was published without her knowledge.
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A little background: Zakharchenko is a consummate bullsh*t artist. My guess is after a weekend bender he and his buddies played a little game of "Wouldn't Be Weird if..."
[AlManar] Separatists fighting against Kiev announced on Tuesday the creation of a new “state” that they said would take the place of Ukraine and have its capital in their territory.
The proposed country would be founded after a referendum and called Malorossiya, a tsarist-era name meaning “Little Russia” that once described most of the area covering modern-day Ukraine.
A constitution presented by rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko said representatives from the separatists’ self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk “People’s Republics” and other regions had agreed to “declare the establishment of a new state, which is the successor of Ukraine.”
The document — released by the separatists’ news agency — said rebel bastion Donetsk would become the capital, while Kiev would be reduced to the status of a “historical and cultural centre”.
[Ynet] Chairman of a teachers' union in the country describes the changes as a huge step in the wrong direction for The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's schools and an attempt to avoid raising 'generations who ask questions.'
Turkey announced a new school curriculum on Tuesday that excluded Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, feeding confirming opposition fears President Tayyip Erdogan is subverting the republic's secular foundations.
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ijtihad
At first glance, this appears to be a neologism formed from 'idjit' and 'jihad'
Four Canadians were set on fire ‐ and two are fighting for their lives, according to CBC ‐ after a backpack they stole from outside a Winnipeg 7-11 detonated just before midnight last Saturday night. Originally, it was thought that the fire was an accident of some sort.
In the pickup were two men, 22 and 27, as well as a woman, 20, and a boy, 17. The bag exploded shortly after the truck left the convenience store's parking lot, roughly 160 feet away.
Nick Chastellaine identified himself to CBC as the boyfriend of the woman who took the backpack, presumably the 20-year-old woman. He maintains that his girlfriend intended to hand the bag to police. right
Chastellaine was not in the truck when the explosion occurred, but says the explosion happened when one of them opened the bag.
"It was a flash before their eyes, because they all thought they were going to die," he said. The four who got burned "were not intended victims," according to Winnipeg Police Service spokesman Constable Rob Carver.
Police won't clarify due to the active nature of the investigation, but they say whoever brought the bag to the 7-11 wasn't the intended victim, either. They may not have even known what they were carrying when they set down the explosive.
So who was the intended target, and who built the IED? Police won't say ‐ at least not yet. "Don't have a clue"
Constable Carver says "We have some sense of that" but those details are "not something we can release on at this point," adding "there are just elements I cannot speak on."
The Winnipeg Sun reports that Carver described the device as "designed for maximum effect to create what it did in that vehicle." Police say they do not believe there are other devices out there at this time. based on....?
"We are not looking for any other devices," Carver told CBC. He added that this incident was not considered random in nature, adding "we do not believe that someone has randomly put an explosive device out in the public with the intention that innocent victims could be injured."
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Since the police do not believe it to be random, several possibilities spring to mind:
jihadis who targetted the shop
gangsters encouraging protection money
idiots who like making things go boom, or vicious idiots with a grudge
And VRWC's suggestion it was intended to punish a thief. If it was anything except the jihadis, it will be so reported when the miscreant(s) is/are caught. It is odd that the police said the person who dropped off the backpack was not the intended victim, and possibly did not know s/he was carrying a bomb.
[Al Jazeera] Maldives President Abdulla Yameen's nephew has been locked away Book 'im, Mahmoud! amid renewed political unrest in the Indian Ocean nation after members of the president's family turned against him, criticising authoritarian reversals under his rule.
Faris Maumoon was arrested on Tuesday in the capital Male on charges of bribery, according to court documents.
A politician who defected to the opposition, Faris has been leading an effort to unseat Yameen's ally, speaker of parliament Abdulla Maseeh, who has been accused of ignoring allegations of corruption, mismanagement and rights abuses.
"The charges against Faris are clearly false," said Eva Abdulla, an opposition politician.
"Coming just four days before the vote to impeach the speaker, it marks the beginning of a campaign to reduce opposition votes by arresting and jailing politicians."
Yameen won a 2013 presidential election and has since been accused of reversing much of the country's democratic gains and corruption.
Faris is the son of Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who was the Maldives president for 30 years.
The brothers, Gayoom and Yameen, fell apart after an acrimonious power struggle within the ruling party last year.
Gayoom called his son's arrest "a grave injustice" in a Twitter post and said: "All dictatorships are doomed to fail. That is the lesson of history."
Gayoom, who himself ruled with an iron fist, has joined forces with Mohammed Nasheed, whom he repeatedly placed in durance vile Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! but who went on to become the country's first democratically elected president, in a campaign to undermine Yameen in the run-up to elections next year.
For his part, Nasheed, in a Twitter post, said Yameen was "highlighting his desperation by going after his own nephew".
A front man for Yameen declined to comment immediately.
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[American Thinker] The Israeli government has again rejected the notion of adoption by same-sex couples, affirming that adoption should be by a man and a woman, and that adoption by same-sex couples places "additional baggage" on the adopted child.
This position is important, as it stands apart from what has become the norm in most Western and industrialized countries of permitting adoption by same-sex couples.
In the United States, before 1973, states commonly barred same-sex adoption. With the rise to prominence of gay rights groups and the 1973 decision by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to remove homosexuality from the list of mental disorders (please also see here), states have decided or have been compelled to permit same-sex adoption.
Proponents of same-sex adoption argue that the practice poses no risk to children. Well, aside for the example of gross immorality set by parents who live as a "gay couple," the facts say otherwise. Some headlines of note:
[ZeroHedge] Three months ago we introduced China's "silent hunter" experimental laser gun, and now, as CNN reports, in the waters of the Persian Gulf looms the US Navy's first - in fact, the world's first - active laser weapon. Now let us demonstrate the power of this fully armed and operational battle station!
The LaWS, an acronym for Laser Weapons System, is not science fiction. It is not experimental. It is deployed on board the USS Ponce amphibious transport ship, ready to be fired at targets today and every day by Capt. Christopher Wells and his crew.
CNN was granted exclusive access to a live-fire test of the laser.
For the test, the USS Ponce crew launched the target -- a drone aircraft. Immediately, the weapons team zeroed in.
"We don't have to lead a target," Hughes explained. "We're doing that engagement at the speed of light so it really is a point and shoot -- we see it, we focus on it, and we can negate that target."
In an instant, the drone's wing lit up, heated to a temperature of thousands of degrees, lethally damaging the aircraft and sending it hurtling down to the sea. The strike comes silently and invisibly.
"It is more precise than a bullet," Wells told CNN.
"It's not a niche weapon system like some other weapons that we have throughout the military where it's only good against air contacts, or it's only good against surface targets, or it's only good against, you know, ground-based targets -- in this case this is a very versatile weapon, it can be used against a variety of targets."
That slap you heard was the collective sphincters slamming shut from the Iranian speedboat operators.
LaWS begins with an advantage no other weapon ever invented comes even close to matching. It moves, by definition, at the speed of light. For comparison, that is 50,000 times the speed of an incoming ICBM.
"It is throwing massive amounts of photons at an incoming object," said Lt. Cale Hughes, laser weapons system officer.
"We don't worry about wind, we don't worry about range, we don't worry about anything else. We're able to engage the targets at the speed of light."
All the $40 million system needs to operate is a supply of electricity, which is derived from its own small generator, and has a crew of three. No multi-million-dollar missile, no ammunition at all.
The cost per use? "It's about a dollar a shot," said Hughes.
Suddenly sinking drones, missiles and annoying speedboats became cheap.
[Blaze] Magazine Teen Vogue found itself in a a bit of a spot after publishing a "how-to" article on "A Guide to Anal Sex."
Parents of teen subscribers called for a boycott of the magazine, after a July 7 article ran and was chock-full of things the magazine’s editors claimed readers "needed" to know about anal sex.
The article’s author, Gigi Engle, wrote, "Obviously there is a lot of stuff on the Internet about anal (we don’t suggest you Google it), but most of what you’ll find is either porn or advice for experienced sexual persons looking to try something new. What about the teenagers? What about the LGBTQ young people who need to know about this for their sexual health?"
Many parents took issue with "What about the teenagers?" and began a hashtag, #PULLTEENVOGUE, and Elizabeth Johnston -- known in some circles, and on Facebook -- as The Activist Mommy -- implored libraries and local stores to pull the offending Teen Vogue issue from its racks and stands.
Speaking to The Todd Starnes Show, Johnston said, "I was truly flabbergasted. They should not be teaching sodomy to our children."
"This is not a Republican issue or a Democrat issue," she later added. "This is not a conservative issue or liberal issue. This is a parent issue."
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What about the LGBTQ young people who need to know about this for their sexual health?"
May I use your logic. How about firearms training for teens. At least in Chicago, they could reduce the number of accidental discharges and poor accuracy that leads to collateral damage. Will you Progs buy that? /rhet question
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Heavy.com] Mohamed Noor, the Minneapolis police officer who is accused of shooting and killing Justine Damond, an Australian yoga teacher and spiritual healer, was the first Somali-American officer in his precinct.
Four Canadians were set on fire ‐ and two are fighting for their lives, according to CBC ‐ after a backpack they stole from outside a Winnipeg 7-11 detonated just before midnight last Saturday night. Originally, it was thought that the fire was an accident of some sort.
[ZeroHedge] Three months ago we introduced China's "silent hunter" experimental laser gun, and now, as CNN reports, in the waters of the Persian Gulf looms the US Navy's first - in fact, the world's first - active laser weapon.
