A FATAL POLICE SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS IS MAKING HEADLINES
NOT ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT ALSO IN AUSTRALIA BECAUSE IT
INVOLVED A WOMAN WHO CAME HERE TO THE UNITED STATES FROM
AUSTRALIA IN ORDER TO MARRY HER FIANC….
JUSTINE DAMOND WAS HER NAME AND SHE WAS A YOGA AND MEDITATION
TEACHER AND THIS CASE IS VERY LOW ON DETAILS.
VERY LITTLE DETAILS HAVE BEEN REPORTED BY THE COPS
INVOLVED IN PEOPLE ARE EXTREMELY UPSET AND ANGRY ABOUT HOW
THIS SITUATION WENT DOWN, BUT HERE IS WHAT WE DO NOTE.
SHE ACTUALLY CALLED THE COPS FOR HELP BECAUSE SHE BELIEVED THAT
THERE WAS A POSSIBLE ASSAULT IN THE ALLEY NEAR HER HOME.
THE CALL FOR HELP CAME IN JUST BEFORE 11 PM SATURDAY NIGHT GOT
TO MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT OFFICERS WENT TO AN ALLEY NEAR
HER HOME IN THE FULTON NEIGHBORHOOD.
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 WHO WAS WEARING PAJAMAS APPROACHED THE
DRIVER-SIDE DOOR AND WAS TALKING TO THE DRIVER.
THE OFFICER IN THE PASSENGER SEAT THEN SHOT DAMOND THROUGH
THE DRIVER-SIDE DOOR, THE THREE PEOPLE TOLD THE NEWSPAPER.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT PROMPTED HER TO DO THAT.
WHAT WE DO KNOW IS SHE IS NOT A VIOLENT PERSON.
SHE DID NOT HAVE A GUN AND SHE WAS THE PERSON WHO CALLED
THE COPS TO REPORT A POSSIBLE ASSAULT IN THE ALLEY.
OKAY.
THINK ABOUT HOW DANGEROUS THAT IS.
NOT ONLY ARE YOU SHOOTING AND KILLING SOMEONE.
THAT USED TO BE A REALLY IMPORTANT THING BACK IN THE
DAY BUT YOU ARE ALSO SHOOTING THROUGH YOUR PARTNER.
I KNOW.
TO HIT HER.
IN MINNEAPOLIS, WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE NO CONSEQUENCES FOR
COPS KILLING PEOPLE, WHERE PHILANDO CASTILE WAS SHOT AND KILLED.
WE SAW IT ON TAPE.
WE SAW WHAT HAPPENED.
THE OFFICER WAS TOLD I HAVE A LEGAL GUN.
DON'T WORRY.
MAKE SURE YOU GET IT.
HE SHOT AND KILLED THE GUY ANYWAY, HE GOT AWAY WITH IT.
TOTALLY ACQUITTED.
I GUESS THE DOWNSIDE IS, SOMEBODY IS DEAD.
WHATEVER.
BUT I AM NEVER GOING TO GET PUNISHED.
DID THE GUY CONSCIOUSLY THINK THAT?
WE DON'T KNOW THAT YET.
I'M SURE THE COPS ARE BUSY GRILLING HIM RIGHT NOW AS
WE SPEAK BECAUSE THEY LOVE TO GRILL THEIR OWN.
THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE BLUE LINE AT ALL, THEY JUST
TREAT THEM AS COMMON CRIMINALS WHEN THEY KILL
CITIZENS.
THEY NEVER DO THAT.
BUT IN THE BACK OF HIS MIND, ALL OF THE COPS KNOW I WILL
ALMOST NEVER SUFFER ANY CONSEQUENCES.
SHOOTING SOMEONE USED TO BE A GIGANTIC DEAL AND THIS IS
WHY WE TOLD YOU AND OTHER STORIES PEOPLE ARE STARTING
TO WORRY ABOUT CALLING THE COPS THAT.
LOOK, THERE ARE SO MANY NEGATIVE RAMIFICATIONS TO
STORIES JUST LIKE THIS ONE.
THERE IS THIS DISTRUST OF COPS, AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT
WORKS AS A NEGATIVE FOR GOOD COPS OUT THERE, LAW-ABIDING
COPS TO ACTUALLY DO WANT TO PROTECT AND SERVE AND SO
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE WHEN YOU COME ACROSS A STORY WHERE
THERE IS SOMEONE WHO IS INNOCENT, BUT THEY RUN AWAY
FROM THE COPS AND THEN THAT LEADS TO A SHOOTING, PEOPLE
WILL SAY WHERE THEY RUNNING AWAY FROM THE COPS?
WHAT IS THE ISSUE?
THEY ARE NOT GUILTY OF ANYTHING, WHY WOULD THEY RUN AWAY SON
IT IS BECAUSE OF THIS DISTRUST OF PEOPLE ARE FEARFUL AND
DON'T WANT TO CALL COPS FOR HELP AND IT IS BECAUSE OF TRAGIC
STORIES LIKE THIS ONE.
AGAIN, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF WORDS WERE EXCHANGED.
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
VERY LITTLE DETAILS TO THE STORY IS ANOTHER QUICK SHE
MIGHT'VE DISRESPECTED ONE OF THEM THE
WHO KNOWS, BUT OBVIOUSLY WE NEVER AGREED THAT
DISRESPECTING A COP WARRENTED SHOOTING AND KILLING
SOMEONE.
HERE IS ANOTHER ELEMENT TO THE STORY THAT
IN MY OPINION IS VERY INTERESTING.
NEITHER THE RESPONDING OFFICERS HAD TURNED ON THEIR BODY
CAMERAS FOR THE SHOOTING.
THE SQUAD CAR CAMERA DID NOT CAPTURE THE INCIDENT, EITHER.
WHAT AN UNBELIEVABLE COINCIDENCE.
I BET THAT WILL MAKE ACCOUNTABILITY EASY.
NO, IT WILL MAKE A SUPER HARD AND GIVEN THE TRACK RECORD OF
COPS GETTING ACQUITTED ON CHARGES WITH NO VIDEO AT ALL
IT'LL BE THERE WORD AGAINST NO ONE BECAUSE OTHER PERSON IS
DEAD.
DEAD MEN TELL NO TELLS.
WHAT A SHOCKING COINCIDENCE IT.
THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE THEIR BODY CAMERAS ON.
AFTER THE PHILANDO CASTILE SHOOTING IT IS MANDATORY TO
HAVE IT ON BUT THEY SAID THEY DIDN'T.
ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT SHE IS THE 23RD
WOMAN FATALLY SHOT BY AN OFFICER THIS YEAR AND THAT ONLY ACCOUNTS
FOR OVER 4% OF ALL FATAL POLICE SHOOTINGS THIS YEAR ALONE.
USUALLY THESE POLICE SHOOTINGS DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACT MALES,
BUT ONE THING THAT I DO REALLY WANT TO BRING UP AND I THINK IT
IS IMPORTANT IS THAT OFTENTIMES WE TALK ABOUT THE ISSUE OF
POLICE BRUTALITY, BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT IT DISPROPORTIONATELY
IMPACTS MINORITIES, IT TURNS INTO A RACE ISSUE.
A RACIAL ISSUE AND ONE THING THAT I SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN
AND I REALLY WANT TO REITERATE IT RIGHT NOW, IT GOES
FURTHER THAN A RACE ISSUE.
YES, IT DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACTS MINORITIES, BUT
IMPACT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US.
WHEN WE EMBOLDEN BAD COPS TO BEHAVE THIS WAY, WHEN WE
LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THIS TYPE OF BEHAVIOR, IT DOESN'T
JUST IMPACT PEOPLE YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT HER THINK ABOUT.
IT IMPACTS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US.
THIS IS AN AUSTRALIAN WOMAN WHO TEACHES MEDITATION AND YOGA HERE
IN THE UNITED STATES.
SHE WAS KNOWN AS A LOVING AND CARING, PASSIONATE PERSON.
NOT A VIOLENT PERSON AT ALL.
PEOPLE ARE REELING ABOUT THE STORY AND THEIR ANGRY.
WHAT'S INTERESTING IS EVERYONE IS ANGRY.
NO ONE IS LOOKING AT HER RECORD AND TALKING ABOUT MAYBE SHE
SMOKED MARIJUANA ONCE AND MAYBE THAT JUSTIFIES THE BEHAVIOR.
THIS WAS FROM WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR AND UNJUSTIFIED MURDER OF
A WOMAN AND THE SAME IS TRUE OF ALL MINORITIES THAT WE COVERED.
THIS IMPACTS EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US.
WE NEED THE REAL THESE COPS BACK IN, TO BETTER TRAINING, NEXT
WE PUNISH THEM WHEN THEY MURDER AND KILL UNARMED INDIVIDUALS.
WHETHER IT'S MURDER IT WILL BE ADJUDICATED MAY BE, IF
THEY EVER GO TO COURT BUT IS SHOOTING AND KILLING
SOMEONE, THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
2 AND THIS POINT, THIS QUOTE, LOOK, WHEN WE'RE SAYING THEY'RE
DOING THIS TO OUR FATHERS, SONS, BROTHERS, SISTERS, AND MOTHERS,
WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO TELL YOU IS IF THEY ARE DOING THE STAFF,
THEY WILL DO IT TO US NEXT OUT YOU KNOW THAT OLD POEM, FIRST
THEY CAME FOR THE TRADE UNIONIST AND I WASN'T A TRADE
UNIONIST, I AM BOTH GOING TO BE SOFTER ANSWER FROM THE COPS.
I DON'T KNOW THE GUY WHO SHOT FOR LAND OKAY STEEL IS A
BAD GUY.
I DON'T KNOW IF THE GUY WHO SHOT THIS WOMAN IS A BAD PERSON.
WHAT I'M WORRIED ABOUT IS THE TRAINING.
THEY ARE TELLING THE COPS BE AFRAID OF EVERYTHING.
NEVER EVER TAKE A RISK OF ANYTHING EVER HURTING YOU.
PROTECTING THE CITIZENS IS LIKE YOUR 187 PRIORITY.
PROTECTING YOU IS ONE-TO-ONE 86.
MY JOB IS TO GET HOME AND I GOT NO, IT'S NOT THAT IS ACTUALLY
LITERALLY NOT YOUR JOB THAT YOUR JOB IS TO PROTECT THE COMMUNITY.
THAT IS WHY WE GIVE YOU A GUN AND A BADGE.
SO COURSE, THEIR GUNS EVERYWHERE TO BE FAIR TO THE COPS, SO
WHAT HAPPENS?
THIS IS WHAT WE TOLD YOU WOULD HAPPEN.
AND OUT OF THAT
WE SAY DON'T WORRY, YOU'LL ALMOST NEVER GO TO PRISON FOR
SHOOTING SOMEONE IF YOU ARE A COP, SO YOU HAVE NO
INCENTIVIZED THEM TO SHOOT PEOPLE BECAUSE THERE ARE NO
CONSEQUENCES AND YOU TRAIN THEM THAT THEY SHOULD BE SCARED
OF EVERYTHING AND NOT CARE FOR THE CITIZENS AND YES, YOU DID.
IT IS THE TRAINING.
BY THE WAY, HER STEPSON TO BE, THE PERSON, SHE WAS ABOUT
TO GET MARRIED, HER STEPSON OF COURSE LOVED HER AND SAID,
QUOTE, AMERICA SUCKS THAT
ACTUALLY, WE HAVE IS VIDEO AND IT IS REALLY POWERFUL
DOCUMENT TOSS IT UP.
WITH THE VIDEO.
MY MOM IS DEAD BECAUSE A POLICE OFFICER SHOT HER FOR
REASONS I DON'T KNOW AND I DEMAND ANSWERS AND IF ANYBODY
CAN HELP, JUST CALL THE POLICE AND DEMAND ANSWERS.
I AM SO DONE WITH ALL THIS VIOLENCE.
IT IS SO MUCH BUSH IT.
AMERICA SUCKS, THESE COPS NEED TO GET TRAINED DIFFERENTLY DUCK
CAN USUALLY KNOW ABOUT THE SITUATION?
I JUST KNOW SHE HAD A SOUND IN THE ALLEY AND SHE CALLED THE POLICE.
THE COPS SHOWED UP AND SHE WAS A VERY PASSIONATE WOMAN AND SHE
PROBABLY, SHE THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMETHING BAD HAPPENING AND NEXT
THING I KNOW, THEY TAKE MY BEST FRIENDíS LIFE.
I AM JUST DONE.
FUCK THE POLICE.
SOME OF YOU ARE GOOD, BUT I AM JUST DONE.
I AM SO DONE.
THEY ARE NOT ANSWERING YOUR QUESTIONS?
THIS HAS TO STOP.
I AM SURE THERE WILL BE A LOT OF RIGHT-WINGERS WHO GO I
CAN'T BELIEVE HE SAID FUCK THE POLICE.
HOW DARE HE.
AND HE SAYS AMERICA SUCKS, DOESN'T HE
KNOW WE ARE NUMBER 1.
HOW WOULD THEY READ HOW WOULD YOU REACT IF THEY KILLED
YOUR MOM?
EASY TO CRITICIZE WHEN YOUR MOM IS NOT DEAD IN AN ALLEYWAY
BECAUSE SHE MISTAKINGLY THOUGHT THE COPS WOULD HELP HER.
EVEN IN THE MIDST OF HER IS ANGER HE SAID IT IS NOT
ALL THE COPS.
OF COURSE IT IS NOT, BUT WE'RE TRAINING THEM WRONG AND HE
SAID THAT, THAT IS 100% RIGHT.
WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO FREEZE, YOU ARE UNDER ARREST.
WE HAVE TO GO BACK TO TAKE A SECOND BEFORE YOU SHOOT AND
KILL SOMEONE AND END THEIR LIFE.
WE HAD TO GO BACK TO THE CITIZENS LIVES MATTER.
THEY MATTER.
LIVES ARE NOT THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS.
OF COURSE WE CARE ABOUT COPS, THEY ARE HUMAN BEINGS.
BUT WE ALSO CARE ABOUT ALL OF THE CITIZENS.
IT IS GROSS IT.
IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW IT PLAYS OUT BECAUSE I
SAW COUPLE OF REPORTS.
I SAW FROM THE DAILY MAIL, THE OFFICER IS APPARENTLY A
SOMALI AMERICAN, FIRST OFFICER TO SERVICE PRECINCT.
HIS NAME IS MOHAMMED AND HE ONLY HAD A LITTLE BIT OF EXPERIENCE
THAT WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING THIS IS AN INEXPERIENCED COP AND HE
NEEDS MAY BE MORE TRAINING AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.
MAYBE NEEDS LESS TRAINING.
THIS NOW AS WE KNOW THE LINES OF WHAT NORMALLY HAPPENS OR WHAT
WE HEAR THE MAJORITY OF TIME AS THE POINT OUT WHAT
DISPROPORTIONALLY HAPPENS, WE WILL SEE THIS ONE.
THAT'S A SUPER INTERESTING QUESTION DUCK
RACES ARE REVERSED IN THIS CASE.
AND THE GUY WHO SHOT HER IS MUSLIM.
WE ARE 1000% CONSISTENT.
YOU'VE GOT TO GET BETTER TRAINING ON THE COPS.
WHEN I SAY BETTER I DON'T MEAN GET THEM EVEN MORE NERVOUS.
YOU ARE GOING TO GET SHINY SECOND, WHENEVER YOU SEE
ANYONE THERE ABOUT TO SHOOT YOU.
PUT THEM DOWN FIRST, RIGHT?
INCENTIVE DOING THAT KIND OF TRAINING, I DON'T NEED MORE
OF THAT.
THAT IS WHAT GETS PEOPLE KILLED.
TEACH THEM THESE ARE YOUR CITIZENS.
YOUR JOB IS TO PROTECT THEM, OKAY?
YOUR JOB IS NOT TO KILL THEM, IT IS TO PROTECT THEM AND ACTUALLY,
YOU HAVE A REALLY DANGEROUS AND HARD JOB BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO
RISK YOUR LIFE TO PROTECT THEM SO I'M JUST AS FURIOUS ABOUT
THIS STORY AS ANY OF THE COPS SHOOTINGS, BUT IT WILL BE
INTERESTING TO SEE THE RIGHT-WING REACTION BECAUSE IN
THIS CASE, IT WAS A WHITE WOMAN WHO WAS SHOT AND APPARENTLY A
BLACK MUSLIM COP WHO SHOT HER, SO WE'LL SEE IF ALL THE
SUDDEN THEY ARE LIKE WELL, THIS ONE WAS BAD.
I'M IN, NOT THE OTHER ONES, BUT THIS ONE.
WE WILL SEE.
I DO WANT TO PREJUDGE THAT.
JUST LOOK AT THE COMMENTS DOWN BELOW.