Washington Pos Takes The Side Of Minneapolis Cop Who Killed Woman

“After Minneapolis officer in police shooting is named, Somali community braces for backlash”

Of course there will be a backlash. A trusted member of their community, one they celebrated, killed a woman for no reason. He was a cop, supposed to ‘Preserve and Protect’. Instead, he reached across his partner and shot her in cold blood.

When Mohamed Noor joined the Minneapolis police force and was assigned to patrol the city’s southwest corner, the Somali community there — the nation’s largest — threw a party for him to celebrate.

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Now that same Somali community is bracing for a backlash against Noor that has already begun.

On Monday, multiple media outlets named Noor as the officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman in the city’s popular Fulton neighborhood over the weekend, an incident that has grabbed global attention and thrust Minneapolis into yet another uproar over police violence.

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Already, hateful posts criticizing Islam and sharia law are filling social media in response to the police shooting. Several far-right blogs featured sensational headlines that blamed the officer’s ethnicity for the deadly use of force.”

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