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Police will not be charged in ‘no-knock’ killing of Amir Locke

Hundreds of demonstrators filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in the United States after body camera video released by the Minneapolis Police Department showed an officer shoot and kill Amir Locke during a no-knock raid [Christian Monterrosa/AP Photo]

Minnesota prosecutors declined to file charges on Wednesday against a Minneapolis police SWAT team officer who fatally shot Amir Locke while executing an early morning no-knock search warrant in a downtown apartment in February.

Locke, age 22, who was Black, was sleeping on the couch in the apartment when authorities entered it on February 2 as part of an investigation into a homicide in the neighbouring city of St Paul.

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