1 / 6Police Shooting MinneapolisAmal Abdullahi, 11, attends s rally supporting former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor in Minneapolis on Thursday, June 6, 2019.
Noor, convicted of murder in the shooting of an unarmed woman who had called 911, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday. MINNEAPOLIS — Attorneys for a Minneapolis police officer awaiting sentencing Friday for the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman who had called 911 are asking a judge not to send him to prison, proposing instead that he report to jail each year on the woman's birthday and the anniversary of her death.
"This sentence honors the memory of Ms. Rusczcyk and allows Mr. Noor to continue to serve the city," they wrote."Just as importantly, it mandates that Mr. Noor will continue to consider his action and the great loss they caused." Noor, 33, testified that a loud bang on the cruiser scared him and his partner, and that he saw a woman at his partner's window raising her arm. He said he fired to protect his partner's life. But prosecutors criticized Noor for shooting without seeing a weapon or Damond's hands, and disputed whether either of them really heard a bang.
Noor has been held since his conviction in the most secure unit at the state's maximum security prison in Oak Park Heights for his own safety, Corrections Department spokeswoman Sarah Fitzgerald said Thursday.
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