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| Fast-track training put officer Mohamed Noor on Minneapolis police force |
| 2017-07-24 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna Minneapolis made a significant financial investment in Mohamed Noor. The officer who fatally shot Justine Damond graduated in 2015 from the city’s accelerated police cadet program. The seven-month training is a quicker, nontraditional route to policing aimed at helping those who already have a college degree enter law enforcement. The Minneapolis program covers tuition at Hennepin Technical College and pays trainees a $20-an-hour salary with benefits while they work to get licensed. After that their salary bumps up. More than a year into the job, Noor, 31, rose from a beat cop’s obscurity to international headlines after shooting Damond, a 40-year-old spiritual healer from Australia, after she called 911 to report a possible sexual assault behind her southwest Minneapolis home. When she approached the driver’s side window of the squad car, Noor, who was in the passenger seat, fired across his partner in the driver’s seat, killing Damond. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 And in that area, probably win, Pappy. >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2017-07-24 16:18 |
| #8 One year as a probationary, six months of which is in the field and watched over by a senior police officer. He checked all the boxes. Means he'll get to run for political office instead. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-07-24 16:09 |
| #7 Does this mean he'll never be the first Mooslim Chief of Police in Minneapolis ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-07-24 15:30 |
| #6 Apparently one of the lessons they skipped was "Don't shoot unarmed civilians ". |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2017-07-24 12:20 |
| #5 #4 So the shooter was the experienced one??? Yep, Frozen Al. OJT, part of the accelerated police cadet program. He has seniority/not/maybe...... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2017-07-24 11:40 |
| #4 So the shooter was the experienced one??? |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2017-07-24 11:28 |
| #3 I understand their need for fast-tracking, but putting two very junior officers together in a car is nuts. (Driver had one year, shooter had two years on the job) |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-07-24 09:46 |
| #2 Range time but no algebra. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-07-24 08:23 |
| #1 Well, it would not be PC to give him time to slip up or prove himself incompetent, or worse, malicious... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-07-24 07:06 |