Cop who killed bride-to-be had three complaints against him
The Minnesota police officer who shot and killed an Australian bride-to-be has had three complaints filed against him during his two-year law enforcement career.
Two of the three complaints in Mohamed Noor’s police file are active, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. One was closed without discipline.
Details of the complaints are unclear.
But the 31-year-old cop, who joined the force in 2015, is being sued for a May 25 incident in which a woman claimed he “grabbed her right wrist and upper arm” and injured her as he and other officers transported her to the hospital.
Noor is a divorced dad who was once observed by a home evaluator as having an “even keel and calm demeanor” in dealing with his son, the Star-Tribune reported.
Attorney Thomas Plunkett, who represents Noor, said the officer “extends his condolences to the family and anyone else who has been touched by this event. He takes their loss seriously and keeps them in his daily thoughts and prayers.”
“He came to the United States at a young age and is thankful to have had so many opportunities,” Plunkett added in a statement. “He takes these events very seriously because, for him, being a police officer is a calling.”
Noor fatally shot Sydney-born Justine Damond, 40, Saturday night while responding to her 911 call of a possible sexual assault near her home in southwest Minneapolis.
Damond was set to be married to her American sweetheart next month.
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