He has already spent around 30 months behind bars
| | Oct. 21, 2021 Former police officer Mohamed Noor could be out of prison in just eight months, under a new sentence he received Thursday in Minneapolis. Noor was convicted in 2019 of shooting Justine Ruszczyk to death when he answered a 911 call she made about a possible assault near her home. A jury handed down third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter convictions, but the murder conviction was struck down by the state supreme court. Hennepin County judge Kathryn Quaintance said that Noor’s firing across the front seat of his patrol vehicle in a residential neighborhood on a summer night demonstrated the seriousness of his offense. Ruszczyk's family asked the judge to give Noor the maximum allowable sentence. He’d originally been sentenced to 12 1/2 years in prison, and has already been behind bars for about 30 months.
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| CDC advisers back rollout of COVID vaccine boosters from Moderna, J&J | | A panel of experts advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unanimously backed the rollout of Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine boosters in line with the Food and Drug Administration's authorizations issued Wednesday. The committee's actions also support a mix-and-match approach to booster vaccination. | |
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| Found: Lost Halloween Megastorm tapes from 1991 | | From MPR News meteorologist Paul Huttner: "I recently found some tapes I had squirreled away in a box from the Halloween Megastorm nearly 30 years ago. The tapes contain most of my live updates on WCCO-TV from the morning of Nov. 1, 1991, during the height of the storm." | |
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| The end of bias: Is it possible? | | Host Angela Davis spoke with Minneapolis author Jessica Nordell about her new book exploring how bias shows up in our schools, workplaces and every part of life. And, if bias is a habit, can we unlearn it? | |
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