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Hundreds mourn Amir Locke, a Black man killed by US police

Amir Locke's death has been compared with the killing of George Floyd, who died when a Minneapolis police officer used his knee to pin Floyd's neck to the ground in May 2020 [Christian Monterrosa/AP Photo]

Hundreds of people gathered to mourn Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man who was shot dead by police during a raid on his apartment, the latest in a series of killings by law enforcement that sparked outrage over police treatment of Black Americans.

Prominent civil rights activist the Reverend Al Sharpton delivered Locke’s eulogy on Thursday, after a public viewing at a church in Minneapolis, a metropolitan area where two high-profile killings of Black men attracted national attention in the past two years.

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