Mohamed Noor was freed 18 days shy of the fifth anniversary of the fatal shooting of Damond, a dual US-Australian citizen who was engaged to be married.
and 12 and a-half-year sentence, saying that charge didn’t apply to the case. He was resentenced to four years and nine months on the manslaughter charge.
“We’re very disappointed. But we’re not surprised. We’ve been watching events in Minneapolis from miles away and we’re still bewildered about the charge being dropped and we’re still bewildered about the culture of the Minneapolis Police Department,” Heffernan said.
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