MINNEAPOLIS — St. Paul police had applied for a standard search warrant for the predawn raid Wednesday that ended in the shooting death of 22-year-old Amir Locke, but they were overruled by Minneapolis police, who wanted to carry out a no-knock operation in connection with an ongoing homicide investigation, according to a source.
The revelation came as city leaders on Friday announced a moratorium on all no-knock warrants pending a review of the MPD's policy led by Dr. Pete Kraska of Eastern Kentucky University and DeRay McKesson, a former Minneapolis schools official turned prominent anti-police violence activist.
A news release announcing the ban said that McKesson and Kraska helped shape Breonna's Law in Louisville, Kentucky, and have "spearheaded significant reforms to unannounced entry policies associated with no-knock warrants in states across the country."
