The officer involved was a diversity hire from Somalia. He was brought on the force by the city as part of its affirmative action plan. He entered the country originally as a refugee. Trumps ban could've potentially kept him out. Not sure why the globe chose to leave it out. They don't mind bringing up the victims backround. I'm not saying because he was a refugee he was violent but he did also have 2 periods for excessive force or something to that nature. Simply supplying some context to the officers backround as the journalism accidentally or not decides to leave it out.