Minneapolis is reeling once again after the city’s infamously troubled police department shot and killed Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man, during an early-morning “no-knock” raid Wednesday.
Body camera footage released after Locke was killed shows SWAT officers unlocking the door to a unit in a downtown Minneapolis apartment complex, identifying themselves as officers serving a warrant only as they streamed through the door. Less than 10 seconds later, Locke — who’d been sleeping under covers on a sofa in the living room — is seen sitting up, gun in hand, only to be immediately shot several times by officer Mark Hanneman, collapsing backwards before the footage abruptly ends. He was pronounced dead shortly thereafter. (You can view the footage here, but be forewarned that it is upsetting.)
