Jury acquits Umar Zameer as judge gives rare apology: ‘Deepest apologies for what you have been through’
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On Sunday, jurors found the 34-year-old accountant not guilty of all charges including first- and second-degree murder and manslaughter.

Thank god this trial didn't end up finding him guilty. For context, he ran over some plain clothes police officer after plainclothes police rushed Zameer's car while failing to identify themselves as police. Zameer was charged with first degree murder for something that was pretty obviously an accident caused by police incompetence. The trial was also full of the-pigs lying about what happened and being called out.

  • LibsEatPoop [any]
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    8 months ago

    Of course he was. Fuck the police and the dogshit racist ass media. Also, for people who didn't know his family was in the car.

    After celebrating Canada Day in downtown Toronto, Zameer, his pregnant wife, Aaida Shaikh, and their two-year-old son were in their vehicle getting ready to leave the nearly deserted parking garage when a man and a woman “rushed” up to their vehicle. The couple had no idea they were police officers dressed in plain clothes, Hasan said.

    The couple “genuinely thought they were being robbed or worse and when they tried to escape by driving forward, the plain clothes officers on foot got more aggressive” before two other officers “boxed them in with their unmarked van,” he said.

    Zameer then reversed his car and “unfortunately, Officer Northrup pursued the BMW as it reversed,” Hasan said. This put him in the path of the BMW that knocked him to the ground, and when Zameer drove forward, he couldn’t see Northrup and ran over him, Hasan said, noting that two traffic collision experts supported that’s what happened.

    Prosecutors had an uphill battle proving murder after the testimony of three police eyewitnesses was undermined by video surveillance footage and two traffic collision reconstruction experts, one of them a Crown witness.

    After the incident, the police painted it as intentional murder of a police officer by this Muslim man and media/government villainized him for fucking years, just taking the police's version of the story for fucking gospel. No mention of the family or the surrounding circumstances or anything. All this came to light just recently.