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A yoga and meditation teacher living in Minneapolis was fatally shot by police Saturday night after she called 911 to report a possible assault in the alley behind her home . . . The call for help came in just before 11:30 p.m. Saturday, according to a news release from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the state agency investigating the shooting. Two Minneapolis Police Department officers went to an alley near her home in the Fulton neighborhood, on the city’s southwest side. “At one point an officer fired their weapon, fatally striking a woman,” the statement said. But the BCA offered few other details on what precipitated the shooting and, it said, neither of the responding officers had turned on their body cameras before the shooting. The squad car camera did not capture the incident, either. . .
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Three people “with knowledge of the incident” told the Star Tribune that the responding officers pulled into the alley behind Damond’s home. The woman, wearing pajamas, approached the driver’s side door and was talking to the driver, reported the Star Tribune. The officer in the passenger seat shot Damond through the driver’s side door, the three people told the newspaper.
When asked about the Star Tribune report, Jill Oliveira, spokeswoman for the BCA, said only that investigators are still working to “learn more about the events that transpired.” “We will provide details as the investigation continues. However, at this point the BCA is in the very early stages of the investigation.” In a video posted to the Women’s March Minnesota Facebook page, Zach Damond, Justine Damond’s stepson-to-be, said: “Basically, my mom’s dead because a police officer shot her for reasons I don’t know. I demand answers. If anybody can help, just call the police and demand answers. I’m so done with all this violence.”
He added: “America sucks. These cops need to get trained differently. I need to move out of here.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...apolis-police-officer/?utm_term=.3cbcdc230337
So a woman calls the police to report a possible assault outside her home, starts talking to the officers next to his car, and one of them decides to shoot her down. And of course, somehow neither the squad car cam nor any bodycam was turn on.
How wrong could our training possibly get?
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Three people “with knowledge of the incident” told the Star Tribune that the responding officers pulled into the alley behind Damond’s home. The woman, wearing pajamas, approached the driver’s side door and was talking to the driver, reported the Star Tribune. The officer in the passenger seat shot Damond through the driver’s side door, the three people told the newspaper.
When asked about the Star Tribune report, Jill Oliveira, spokeswoman for the BCA, said only that investigators are still working to “learn more about the events that transpired.” “We will provide details as the investigation continues. However, at this point the BCA is in the very early stages of the investigation.” In a video posted to the Women’s March Minnesota Facebook page, Zach Damond, Justine Damond’s stepson-to-be, said: “Basically, my mom’s dead because a police officer shot her for reasons I don’t know. I demand answers. If anybody can help, just call the police and demand answers. I’m so done with all this violence.”
He added: “America sucks. These cops need to get trained differently. I need to move out of here.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...apolis-police-officer/?utm_term=.3cbcdc230337
So a woman calls the police to report a possible assault outside her home, starts talking to the officers next to his car, and one of them decides to shoot her down. And of course, somehow neither the squad car cam nor any bodycam was turn on.
How wrong could our training possibly get?