UPDATE: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey announced a moratorium on both the request of and execution of no-knock warrants late Friday “to ensure safety of both the public and officers until a new policy is crafted.”
“It’s very difficult for us to go through this again,” Toshira Garraway, who founded the group Families Supporting Families Against Police Violence after her fiancé was killed by cops, told The Daily Beast on Friday. “There are hundreds of families out here suffering and there was no accountability and the police won’t stop killing. Because they don’t have a reason to stop. Nothing has changed here and we’ve had enough.
Locke appeared to have been sound asleep at home when cops entered his apartment on a no-knock warrant. Multipleoutlets have reported Minneapolis police went ahead with that controversial procedure despite St. Paul police—who were overseeing the homicide investigation that spurred the raid—not requesting one.
Locke appeared to be holding a gun when he was shot; his family has said he had a permit for the firearm. The warrant was issued in connection to a St. Paul homicide investigation, and it did not name Locke personally. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner on Friday concluded that Locke died from multiple gunshot wounds, and classified the cause of death as a homicide. The examiner, however, did note that the manner of death is not a “legal determination of culpability or intent.”
Officer Mark Hanneman was identified by the City of Minneapolis as the one who fired the fatal shot that killed Locke.
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