Ex-Minneapolis police officer faces trial for killing Australian Justine Damond
MINNEAPOLIS - An attorney for a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman in July 2017 said on Tuesday his client had followed his training and had reason to believe he was being ambushed.
"It was a tragedy, but in no way was it a crime," defense attorney Peter Wold said in his opening statement in Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis. The alley was silent when Noor and his partner, Matthew Harrity drove up, Wold told a jury. Wold thumped his hand on the table in the courtroom dramatically to demonstrate the sound that Noor and his partner Harrity claim surprised them and prompted Noor to fire his gun.
U.S. attorney Patrick Lofton said neither Noor nor Harrity mentioned a loud noise on the night of the crime, raising the question of whether they had later fabricated that version of events.The shooting, which Australia's then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called"shocking" and"inexplicable," added to a wave of controversial U.S. police killings of unarmed civilians, and led to the resignation of Minneapolis police chief Janee Harteau.
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