Killed by Police — Grieving Father Says Cop's 'Sorry about That' Does Not Cut It

Justine Ruszczyk-Damond was gunned down in cold blood
on July 15, 2017 by a Minneapolis cop, Mohamed Noor.
Minneapolis police have a message for the Ruszczyk-Damond
family: We don't mind, because you don't matter.

Justine Ruszczyk Damond was a woman engaged in human rights, peace and social justice, an enterprise she hoped to pursue with her life partner.

Late one Summer night in 2017 she heard unexplained screams in an alley near her home. Ms. Ruszczyk Damond phoned 911 twice, alarmed about the welfare of another.

That was the last good act Ruszczyk Damond was to perform on Earth.

Responding Minneapolis police shot and killed her after she walked to the squad car to greet the cops responding to her 911 call.

The killer is Mohamed Noor, a repulsive spectacle of a human being who shot and killed an approaching Ruszczyk Damond without bothering to even check to see who this woman is.

Hey, there's a human figure, shoot. No exaggeration.

Shooting and killing is exactly what Noor said he did.

Noor was convicted of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter, and sentenced early this Summer, (AP).

Noor explained at sentencing, "[M]y intent was to stop the threat," referring to Ms. Damond approaching the squad in her pajamas.

Noor's killing well defines the American police terrorizing the 'threat,' the American people.

Conduct an experiment this Summer. Google officer-involved shooting and create an alert of news pieces sent to your email.

Cancel the alert after a few days because your in-box will fill up with 100s of results very fast.

Police shootings do not include planting evidence, cooking police reports, perjury, harassing citations and character assassinations — all standard fare of the wannabe para-military force in blue and black and its conduct towards the threat.

Noor apologized to the Ruszczyk Damond family at his sentencing.

"For the first time, Justine Ruszczyk Damond’s father is speaking out about an apology from the man who shot and killed her," reports WCCO.

Continues the report:

John Ruszczyk sat down in her native Australia to speak with Australia Broadcast Corporation to respond to what happened last week 9,000 miles away.

'I can’t apologize enough and I will never be able to make up the loss I caused for Miss Ruscyczk’s family,' Noor said.

'What happens in that station house that they tell you, "Whatever you do, you have to make sure you come back home," but don’t they say, "Whatever you do, don’t kill someone,'' Ruscyczk said.

Amid his sorrow, Rusczcyk says he has found a depth of comfort during his visits to Minnesota along the shores of Lake Harriet from strangers who approach him praising Justine.

'Those people made me aware that they cared that Justine had been taken from us, taken from me, our family and from everyone because she was such a bright light, she was such a good person,' Ruscyczk said. 

People do care.

Not the police.

Mr. Rusczcyk is right. 'Sorry about that' doesn't cut it.
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We should bear in mind this character of the police as an audacious defamation case, Colborn v. Netflix Inc (1:19-cv-00484) District Court, E.D. Wisconsin, makes it way through the federal court system this Summer, (see PacerMonitor and CourtListener).

Manitowoc County Sheriff Lt. Andrew Colborn (ret) was party to a frame-up scheme against Steven Avery, featured in the Emmy-winning Making a Murderer.

Now, Colborn has added an argument in his suit to eviscerate First Amendment protections of citizens and the press to criticize public conduct of public officials and public figures, as exemplified in the landmark New York Times v Sullivan (1964). See Mal Contends.

The case will likely fail on either procedural grounds or the merits.

That an ex cop is even attempting to eviscerate core First Amendment rights after framing an innocent for murder is telling. Morally, Noor and Colborn are identical.

According to Colborn's novel theory of libel law underlying his evolving complaint, any public official performing his public duties, criticized at a public trial, has a basis for civil action if journalistic and political speech criticizing the official's public conduct does not comport with a cop's self-serving portrayal of his public performance.

U.S. Dist Judge Pamela Pepper was assigned as presiding judge on April 5 for all further court proceedings.

This is not creeping fascism; it's galloping fascism.

Jurists such as Judge Pamela Pepper, and James Friedman — representing Netflix, Inc and Making a Murderer creators, Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos — are what stands between this constitutional republic and a police state.