This is more of a housekeeping chore than a true update. The Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman has filed charges against:

There is really no new information. Noor never cooperated with the shooting team or District Attorney by giving a statement. Unlike some of the other police shootings, I have discussed here this seems pretty cut and dried. The issue lurking in the shadows is Noor’s competence to be a police officer. The Department maintains that he was qualified. However, he had more time on the job that the probationary officer he was with, but the rookie was considered the senior officer.

We had a saying to describe this circumstance; “He’s got 1 year of experience repeated 5 times.” That describes an officer who does not learn from his tenure (in this case 5 years) and keeps making the same mistakes a 1-year rookie would make.

The one hurdle that seems to doom questionable police shootings is that often times the victim is engaged in unlawful conduct and is subsequently shot because of an overreaction, on the part of the officer. The Jury is unwilling to put that initial conduct aside and given the officer the benefit of the doubt.

In this instance, there was no criminal conduct, on the part of the victim. She was the complainant on the call and went out to contact the officers. It was that attempt to contact the responding officers that led to her death. Officer-who-fatally-shot-Justine-Damond-turns-himself-in-charges-pending