MINNEAPOLIS — Amir Locke was laid to rest Thursday, 15 days after a Minneapolis police officer shot and killed the 22-year-old during the predawn execution of a no-knock search warrant.
Inside Shiloh Temple International Ministries in north Minneapolis, 1,000 mourners absorbed the complex emotions after another death of a Black man at the hands of police: joy and hope in God. Pain and sadness at the violent death of a shy, loving, funny young man — who called his mom "Big Dawg," who wanted to become a rapper — just coming into his own.
Most of all, though, was a steady expression of outrage. It was directed toward Minneapolis police, toward city and state power-brokers, and toward what mourners see as America's systemic racism upholding law enforcement and judicial systems that work one way for young Black men and a different way for everyone else.
