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.

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    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.

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    A similar incident happened in the US. A teenager and his girlfriend were eating inside their car when a cop suddenly jumped out his car and opened the kid’s door with his gun already pointed at him. The kid justifiably reverses in fear because he doesn’t know who the fuck this guy is or what he wants, and the cops unloads on him and the girl.

    Luckily they survived. But the worse part? The cop was there for a completely different call, and he saw the car and thought it was the same person who ran away from him from the previous day. The kid did in fact evade the cop, but the cop only recognized the car, he didn’t know who was driving it and already had his gun out lol

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    I wonder how many times has a scenario like this occurred and the accused was forced to plead guilty to avoid 200 grand of debt thonk