MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Statement in court Friday from former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor before he was sentenced Friday to 12½ years in prison for killing…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Statement in court Friday from former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor before he was sentenced Friday to 12½ years in prison for killing Justine Ruszczyk Damond:
Your honor, I appreciate the opportunity to talk about the events that I caused, that bring me here today. I’ve thought and prayed about this for the last two years, the time since I took the life of Justine Ruszczyk. I thought a lot about Miss Ruszczyk before the trial, and more so in the last month. I’ve also been thinking about all the other lives that have been changed and continue to be changed by this event. Neither of our families will ever be the same again.
I have wanted to sit with Mr. Damond and tell him about what happened, and to extend my condolences to him, for the last two years, as well as to Miss Ruszczyk’s other families. The process of the courts and the lawyers – so cruel in the way it makes us behave towards each other – the system is dehumanizing. I wish I could have contact them sooner and a different way.
I have owed Miss Ruszczyk’s family an apology for a long time.
