TAMARA KEEL: Warning Sign:

So, about the glaring red flag in the recent Minneapolis police shooting…

No, not the fact that the cop was a Somali-American. Some people are all “zomg he was Somali and named Mohammed! Terr’ism!” Settle your ass down. If it were terrorism, he’d have shot the other cop and then all the responding cops until somebody shot him. It wasn’t terrorism.

No, big red flag is that he was a grown man with a college degree and an apparently reasonably successful career in property management decides, in his thirties, to drop it all to go be the police. There are two kinds of people who do that, and one is a disaster waiting to happen.

After Philando Castile, among other things, it seems clear that the Minnesota police — at the very best — have a serious training and management problem.

UPDATE: Changed to correct suggestion that Philando Castile was shot by Minneapolis Police.

ANOTHER UPDATE: A Police Shooting With A Difference.

In this case there is no heartbreaking video. In this case, moreover, the officer involved is black and the shooting victim is white. Indeed, as of March 2015, Officer Noor is the first Somali officer on the Minneapolis police force. I take it there will be no rush to judgment in this case and that we will be spared the disruptive protests featured in the Castile case. We may have to be grateful for small mercies.

I reached out to a trusted law enforcement source for any insight he might be able to offer. He responds: “My first thought was that it was accidental, but rumor has it [Officer Noor is] denying that it was a negligent discharge.” He adds: “If there aren’t some sort of mitigating circumstances, and I’m struggling to imagine what they could be, this may be the most egregious police shooting in my lifetime if not longer…But not many facts are known at this point and it’s hard to pass judgement before knowing more than what’s being leaked to the media.”

I assume there will be a U.S. DOJ investigation.