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| Amir Locke |
Twenty-two- time-old Amir Locke was lying on a lounge when he got shot dead by a SWAT team during an early morning raid on a Minneapolis apartment on Wednesday.
Body cam footage of the lucre of the Black man raises new questions around no- knock concurrences and increase pressures in the municipality where George Floyd was killed.
Locke was killed on Wednesday in a police raid at around6.48a.m., according to a press release released by Minneapolis Police.
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The statement said police recovered a handgun from Locke, which was directed towards the officers.
Amelia Huffman, the interim Minneapolis police chief, said on Wednesday in a news conference that officers"loudly and constantly announced' police quest leave'before crossing the threshold into the apartment."
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. But Officers wore body worn cameras and footage was released of the incident by the police force on Thursday. The footage tells a slightly different story.
It shows police coming into the dark apartment, crying and shooting Locke who is lying on his chesterfield with a gun in his hand. But it's not clear whether he was alive that the officers had entered the apartment.
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"" Hands, hands!"one officer is heard crying in the video, while another yells" Get on the ground!".
One officer kicks the lounge and Locke's gun becomes visible, before three shots are fired at Locke. He was shot twice in the casket, formerly in the right wrist, according to a medical report released by the municipality.
In lower than 10 seconds, the entire hassle is over.
Huffman said croakers directly handed medical aid, but the suspect failed in sanitorium.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) responded and is conducting an independent exploration.
A report by the Associated Press said Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights attorney and community activist, said Locke's family told her Locke was a pukka gun owner with a concealed carry permit, and that he didn't live in the apartment.
Armstrong, whom the mayor appointed last time toco- president a community safety work group, also said the police had not been looking for Locke and he wasn't one of the three suspects named in the leave to search the structure.
Benjamin Crump, one of the attorneys acting for Locke's family, in a statement compared Locke's killing to the lucre of Breonna Taylor, the 26- time-old Black woman who was fatally shot by Louisville police during a no- knock leave at her apartment in 2020.
Newsweek has communicated Crump for farther comment.
Locke's lucre is likely to inflame pressures and stations towards police in a municipality that was rocked by the death of Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was killed by a police officer in May 2020.
In June 2021, Derek Chauvin, was doomed to 22 and half times for Floyd's murder.
As well as Floyd's lucre, there have been several police killings of Black people in the municipality in recent times.
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