[TheVrist]

Can't call the cops, or go to barber shops.

[kellyhound]

A Minneapolis police officer fatally shot an Australian woman while sitting in the passenger seat of a squad car after a loud noise startled an officer, according to the latest update from the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Officer Matthew Harrity and Officer Mohamed Noor, both of the Minneapolis Police Department were responding to a call of an assault on Saturday night near West 51st Street and Washburn Avenue.

BCA agents interviewed Harrity on Tuesday. Noor declined to be interviewed, which is his right. His attorney did not elaborate when an interview would happen.

According to the preliminary investigation, Harrity and Noor were in the squad car. Harrity was in the driver's seat and Noor was in the front passenger seat. The officers drove south on the alley between Washburn and Xerxes, heading toward West 51st Street. The lights on the squad car were not on.

When they got to the end of the alley, Harrity was startled by a loud noise near the car. Right after, Justine Damond went to the driver's side window of the squad. Harrity told BCA agents that's when Noor fired his gun, shooting her through the open driver's side window.

The officers immediately gave her medical aid, but Damond succumbed to her injuries and died at the scene.

It's unclear why the officers' body cameras were not on. The department has phased in body cameras for all of its officers over the last year. Department policy allows for a range of situations in which officers are supposed to turn cameras on, including "any contact involving criminal activity" and before use of force. If a body camera is not running before use of force, it's supposed to be turned on as soon as it's safe to do so.

[vagabond]

@ sunairco - very good points, thanks!

[LyndseyLouWho]

Originally Posted by Sypher209 ↗

Get your shit together... fuckin yanks...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-1...ooting/8718478

Y’all only care cause it’s a white woman. You don’t give a flying fuck when something like this happens to a person of color! If we are constantly killed whities should suffer too!!!