Justine Damond shooting: police officer 'acted as he was trained', court told

In closing arguments defence lawyer says Mohamed Noor was caught up in a ‘perfect storm’

A Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed woman who approached his squad car minutes after calling 911 was caught up in “a perfect storm” of events but “acted as he was trained”, his attorney argued on Monday.

Prosecutors countered that Mohamed Noor was responsible for “a tragic event of his own making” in 2017 when he shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a dual US-Australian citizen who had summoned police when she heard a possible rape in the alley behind her home.

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