Noor Salman verdict: Omar Mateen's widow not guilty

Unless she's the most oblivious wife ever, she must have known something. Or at least known that something was off... and chose to look the other way/not to believe it.

Either way, I don't feel too much sympathy for her. She's pretty far down on the "list of victims" IMO.

 

Okie dookie.

Who drove and dropped the shooter off in front of the night club?

 

I think he used an AR-15. Tagging @Bobbythegreat by the way lol. He killed a lot of people that night.

Did he hide the rifle in his waistband? What the **** did she think he was doing when he asked for a ride to the club with an assault rifle?

Edit: Nevermind he drove himself.

However, she was cognizant enough that her husband was up to no good to remove her kid from the room when he watched jihadist videos. The comments he made to his wife comparing two different terrorist attacks in the local area, and the fact he's spending thousands of dollars building an arsenal in her home.

• Mandolfo said Salman scoped out Disney Springs with her husband before the shooting. “He said, ‘What would make people more upset – an attack at a club or an attack at Disney?’” the prosecutor said. Salman’s defense has argued that some of the claims she made in statements to the FBI after the attack — including that she and Mateen had driven around Pulse together days before the massacre — are contracted by cellphone records, which don’t place them in the area. Her statements are a key element in the case.
• Mandolfo said Salman knew Mateen had been looking at jihadist material — and that it was so extreme, she would pull her 3-year-old son away from the room.
• Mandolfo said Salman knowingly hid her husband’s intentions from his family and the police. Prosecutors intend to prove this point using text messages Salman sent to Mateen, in which they say she helped him concoct a cover story for where he was going in the hours before the attack. “If ur mom calls say nimo invited you out and noor wants to stay home, " she wrote, referring to a friend of Mateen’s. "She asked where you were xoxo. Love you."
• Mandolfo also said Salman was aware of her husband spending “thousands of dollars to prepare for the attack.”

 

Justice served. Proper verdict.

 

Their marriage appeared to be a physically abusive and emotional trainwreck. She was apparently aware of his cheating and latent homosexuality, but also chose to overlook that in addition to his descent into the militant islamic rabbithole. Cowardice is not accomplice, though.

 

The failure is that prosecutors are judged on their win/loss column, not on whether justice is served or whether
the verdict is correct.

This has lead to a culture to win at all costs and manipulate evidence, hold back information and find ways
to keep information that would clear a defendant from the crime. This is not justice, it is manipulation and
false incentives that is resulting in perverse outcomes.

These "Public Servants" should be arrested if they withhold evidence clearing people of a crime.

 

Agreed

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