Police Kill Black Man Within Seconds Of No-Knock Warrant Raid
Video released by the Minneapolis police department shows officers entering the apartment unit by unlocking the door with a key, then kicks a couch Locke was lying on underneath a blanket, appearing to wake Locke up. Locke, who was holding a handgun, looks up to see officers surrounding him and begins to stand, with the handgun becoming visible.
Almost immediately, officers fired three shots, killing Locke, who was still twisted up in the blanket.
“My son was executed on 2-2 of 22,” said Karen Wells, Locke’s mother, during a press conference on Friday. “And now his dreams have been destroyed.”
Police Kill Black Gun Owner Within Seconds Of No-Knock Warrant Raid
22-year-old Amir Locke was shot and killed by Minneapolis police while lying on a relative’s couch during a raid using a no-knock search warrant.
The United States has become an Authoritarian Police State
Since the end of the Cold War, SWAT teams have proliferated across the United States and the number of no-knock raids on private citizens has risen dramatically. Abby Hall and Chris Coyne explain that this is the result of the boomerang effect– the process by which, in the absence of strong formal constraints, tactics used in foreign interventions abroad are later used to limit the liberties of people back home.
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