For some, black Minneapolis officer's conviction no surpriseAmy Forliti at Associated Press wrote:It's rare for police officers to be convicted after asserting they fired in a life-or-death situation, but some Minnesota community members said they saw it coming for Noor because he is Somali American.
"Officer Noor was going to jail no matter what because he's a black man who shot a white woman in the state of Minnesota," said John Thompson, an activist and friend of Philando Castile, a black man who was killed in 2016 by a Latino suburban police officer who was acquitted.
Alana Ramadan, an African American and Muslim who held a sign calling for the resignation of Hennepin County's head prosecutor, said the African American people she's spoken with knew Noor would be convicted.
"It's almost like there's no hope," she said.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/for-some-bla ... o-surpriseThe entire artical is worth reading.
Half the jury was black and he was convicted because racism...