Mohamed Noor refused to talk to investigators after the July 2017 shooting of Justine Damond. His testimony was his first public statement since her death
A former Minneapolis police officer on trial in the fatal shooting of an unarmed woman who had called emergency services to report a possible sexual assault near her home testified on Thursday about his training for possible ambushes, saying he learned that reacting too late "means ... you die."
Noor was fired from the force soon after being charged. His attorneys have said he was spooked by a noise on his squad car right before the shooting and feared an ambush.Noor described "counter-ambush" training that included scenarios such as two officers in a squad car, doing routine tasks, and an instructor yelling "Threat!" The officers had to make a quick decision about whether to shoot, Noor said.
"So the point is if you don't do your job correctly, you'll get killed," his attorney Thomas Plunkett said.Posters of Justine Ruszczyk Damond are displayed at a news conference last year.The death of Damond, a 40-year-old life coach who was engaged to be married a month after her death, sparked anger and disbelief in both the US and Australia, cost the city's police chief her job and contributed to the mayor's electoral defeat a few months later.
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