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The Minneapolis police chief, Janee Harteau, resigned on Friday at the mayor’s request, less than a week after one of the city’s officers fatally shot an unarmed Australian woman who had called 911 for help.
Mayor Betsy Hodges said in a statement that “I’ve lost confidence in the chief’s ability to lead us further” and that “it is clear that she has lost the confidence of the people of Minneapolis as well.”
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At a press conference on Friday night about the chief’s departure, protesters interrupted Ms. Hodges and called on her to resign, as well. “Bye, bye, Betsy,” they chanted when she tried to continue speaking.
Minneapolis chief of police Janeé Harteau resigned Friday, forced out by the city’s mayor nearly a week after a police officer fatally shot an Australian woman who had called 911.
The case has drawn international scrutiny and criticism, and highlighted the limitations of police-worn body cameras.
Mayor Betsy Hodges, who has previously called the lack of body-camera footage of the shooting “unacceptable,” said in a statement, “I’ve lost confidence in the Chief’s ability to lead us further.”
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The mayor has been sharply critical of the fact that even though every patrol officer in Minneapolis wears a body camera, neither officer present when Damond was fatally shot late Saturday activated his, preventing authorities from having potentially key footage of what happened.“We have put too much time, money, and effort into them to have them fail us when we needed them most,” Hodges wrote of the body cameras. “That cannot happen again.”
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Harteau is at least the fourth chief of a major police department forced out in recent years amid controversy over a deadly police shooting or a fatal encounter with officers.The fatal shooting has provoked international outrage and continued to resonate in Australia. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called it “a shocking killing” and said Australian officials are seeking closure for her family.
I feel something is wrong if police and city officials need Australians to be shot to start cleaning their act.
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Background - The Guardian:
Damond, 40, called police after hearing a possible sexual assault taking place in an alley behind her Minneapolis home in what has been described as the safe, middle-class neighbourhood of Fulton.
The police audio begins with the description of a “female screaming behind the building”, believed to be what Damond told the dispatcher in her initial 911 call.
Damond, dressed in her pyjamas, reportedly approached the driver’s side window of the police car when it arrived in the alley and an officer shot across his partner at Damond more than once from the passenger seat.
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The Washington Post reported Damond is one of at least 524 people fatally shot by police in the US this year and and the fifth in Minnesota.The Minneapolis-St Paul area is still reeling from the acquittal last month of a police officer who shot dead a man, Philando Castile, during a traffic stop while Castile’s girlfriend livestreamed the horrifying incident.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @01:48PM (11 children)
Kill the perps guilty of "driving while black" - oh well.
Kill a blondie - police chief resigns.
It's what it is.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 22 2017, @03:57PM (6 children)
The cop was a Somalian nigger and diversity hire. That is the real story here. Lesson: deport the African coo-ca-coons.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @04:04PM (1 child)
Be less of a coward, admit the US will be better without you and I'll fully support your racist deportation.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @06:12PM
except where he didn't actually kill anyone, unlike a rookie cop. that you're more concerned about his opinion than the fact an innocent person was once again killed by a cop lacking training and a brainstem shows you're more of the problem in the US than the guy whose opinion you don't agree with.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @09:38PM
Point in case, Somalian (African) people are clan beings and are genetically messed up due to breeding with people that are too closely related. Selection bias is pre-arranged marriage over self selection and by extension inherent genetic algorithms for breeding selection. Then there's the over prevalence of the warrior gene (MOA-A) which reduces inhibition to violent acts.
If this is not enough the upbringing is done to often with authoritarian discipline at home which make the kids go wild on society where no parents are.
It's just the wrong stuff.
(Score: 4, Informative) by frojack on Sunday July 23 2017, @12:51AM (2 children)
What Ethanol said actually was true, even if you don't like how he said it.
The Police Chief is big on diversity hire, being the city's first female, first openly gay and first Native American police chief. [rt.com]
Since pictures of him and his family have been posted, it should have been at least mentioned that he runs his household under strict Muslim rules, forcing his wife to follow islamic customs of dress [wordpress.com], which suggests he's not going to have a lot of respect for a white woman running around unaccompanied at night in her pajamas.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @01:04AM
Like cops with decades of experience didn't take out darkies for "driving while black".
I hate this because I have come across and know hellava many good cops. But their frat-boy culture failed/prevented them to take out the bad apples, and there are many.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @02:32AM
Another poster showed that the Minneapolis department has a history of failing to do background checks. This incident would have been prevented by a simple background check. Even a shallow one would have identified him as a moslem which would have been more than enough to disqualify him from employment on the police force or even possessing a firearm.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 22 2017, @05:11PM (2 children)
there's also very little ambiguity in the circumstances of this incident but yeah, if you want to whine about race go ahead. nobody gives a shit, motherfucker.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @12:27AM (1 child)
There is little ambiguity in hundreds of cases. Here is an example. A man's medical alert went off (New York), and (since our society is completely fucked up) police were sent as medical responders. The man told the cops, through the door, that he was fine. The cops broke down the door, and shot the man dead. The main differences in these two incidents is this woman is white and a tourist, and the man was a black citizen.
Denying that racism is a factor means you are either blind, or your own racism is coloring your perception.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @12:58AM
I am the OP on this thread. I hate bringing up race shit into anything, but I will.
American citizens, several of them, got shot down by the cops, but because they are brownies, not much comes out of it.
A foreigner gets shot, and it's a blonde female, so the shit blows up in the media.
#MAGA (if you are white)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 23 2017, @03:21AM
Yes, there were probably strong racist components behind his choice of victim. But that's all a distraction.
Accusations of racism are a distraction from the disturbing fact that Minneapolis allowed a known moslem into the police department. They find ways to be harmful [jihadwatch.org] even without weapons. All this noise about "racism" simply distracts from this fact. The core issue in this incident is islam and the politicians and the press are producing all kinds of smoke and noise to avoid letting it be examined in daylight. No matter how you slice it, islam is still not a race.