More than 1,000 protesters marched in Minneapolis on Saturday, seeking action following last week’s police 'no knock' warrant shooting death of Amir Locke, according to reports.
Police video of the raid suggested Locke, 22, had been sleeping on a couch, wrapped in a blanket, when police entered the apartment and fatally shot him within seconds, the station reported. The video also shows that Locke was holding a gun at the time.
A Minneapolis police body camera image shows 22-year-old Amir Locke wrapped in a blanket on a couch, holding a gun, moments before he was fatally shot by police as they were executing a search warrant in a homicide investigation. On Saturday, the crowd gathered around 3 p.m. outside the Hennepin County Government Center then marched for about three hours in cold temperatures, FOX 9 reported.Speakers at the gathering included Andre Locke, father of the man who was killed. He called for 22 days of peace in memory of his son. "Because we aren’t police bashers," the father said, according to FOX 9. But he called for the removal of what he called"bad seeds" from the city’s police force. Amir Locke's father Andre Locke speaks at a news conference, with Amir's mother Karen Wells, at left, Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in Minneapolis. "There’s great officers that are White. There’s great officers, period," he said."But they have bad seeds. They have the bad seeds and those bad seeds are the ones who don’t need to be in our communities." On Friday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he would ban"no knock" warrants for police in most situations. But Saturday’s marchers held signs opposing Frey, with messages such as"Frey lied, Amir died," and called for Frey and Minneapolis police Chief Amelia Huffman to step down, FOX 9 reported. Protesters noted that Frey had previously promised to end"no knock" warrants in Minneapolis in 2020, after the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, in similar circumstances.A Frey spokesperson outlined the mayor’s plan two years ago. "Outside of limited exigent circumstances, like a hostage situation, MPD officers will be required to announce their presence prior to entry,"at the time."We can’t prevent every tragedy, but we can limit the likelihood of bad outcomes." "Outside of limited exigent circumstances, like a hostage situation, MPD officers will be required to announce their presence prior to entry. We can’t prevent every tragedy, but we can limit the likelihood of bad outcomes."But police continued seeking and obtaining"no knock" warrants afterward – even though Frey, a Democrat, claimed in campaign literature prior to his November re-election that such warrants had been eliminated,Frey told the Star Tribune that he is not notified when a judge issues a"no knock" warrant. The warrant that led to Locke’s shooting death was signed by Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill, the same judge who presided over the murder trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the May 2020 policy-custody death of
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